"Perfect Performance" Cha Jun-hwan and Kim Chae-yeon will go to the World Championship in 6th place for the national team selection match... Lee Hae-in "Return"
"Perfect Performance" Cha Jun-hwan and Kim Chae-yeon will go to the World Championship in 6th place for the national team selection match... Lee Hae-in "Return"
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Korean figure skaters Cha Jun-hwan (Korea University) and Kim Chae-yeon (Surigo) both acquired the national flag.
Cha Jun-hwan won 98.45 points in technical score (TES), 92.04 points in art score (PCS), and 190.49 points in total in men's single free skating in the KB Financial Korea Figure Skating Championship 2025 National Men's and Women's Figure Skating Championship and the second national team competition held at Uijeongbu Ice Rink in Gyeonggi Province on the 5th.
Cha Jun-hwan, who scored 281.02 points, combined with 90.53 points earned in the short program the previous day, acquired the championship title of nine consecutive tournaments.
The national team competition will be divided into first and second rounds. Cha also won the first round competition held in November last year, and won the second round competition with perfect performance, displaying his national team's signature without a hitch. At the same time, he also got a ticket to the ISU World Championship in Boston, the U.S. in March.
Cha Jun-hwan, who selected "Ballad for the Insane," performed the high-level quadruple salco perfectly, obtaining both basic and performance scores, and also scored 3.26 points in the second jump task, the quadruple toe loop.
He then succeeded in all of the triple lutz-triple axel and handled the step sequence neatly. Cha Jun-hwan, who also performed the triple flip, single Euler-triple Salco combination jump in the second half without any problems, also performed a clean jump task leading to a triple axel.
Subsequently, after playing the change foot combination spin to level 4, he completely played all the later tasks such as Correo sequence, flying Carmel spin, and flying change foot combination spin.
In second place was Seo Min-gyu (Kyungshin High School), who received 246.78 points in total. In the men's category, Cha Jun-hwan, Seo Min-gyu, Lee Si-hyung (Korea University), Kim Hyun-gyeom (Han Advertising), and Lee Jae-geun (Surigo) qualified for the national team.
In the women's division, Kim Chae-yeon, who received 70.43 points in the short program the previous day, won the upset championship.
Kim Chae-yeon scored 77.20 points for ES, 68.46 points for PCS, and 145.66 points in total in the free skate on the day, winning the championship with a total of 216.09 points.
Kim Chae-yeon also won the gold medal in the first round of selection last November and the second round of selection, making a clear leap forward as a Korean figure skater. 메이저사이트
In the women's category, Shin Ji-ah (Sehwa Girls' High School) ranked second with a total score of 214.15 points after Kim Chae-yeon.
Lee Hae-in (Korea University), who was suspended by the Skating Union for unsavory reasons but recovered his qualification after a court battle, ranked sixth overall.
Tickets for the World Championships are given to singles ranking 1st to 3rd. However, Shin Ji-ah, Kim Yoo-jae, and Kim Yoo-sung all failed to meet the eligibility criteria, leaving Yoon Ah-sun (Surigo) at the 5th and Lee Hae-in at the 6th to win the World Championships.