Figure skating Korean male single ‘Signboard’ Cha Jun-hwan (Korea University) will perform on the Olympic stage for the second time in a row.
In the men’s single free skating at the 76th National Men’s and Women’s Figure Skating Comprehensive Championships held at the Uijeongbu Indoor Ice Rink in Gyeonggi-do and the second qualifying round of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, Cha Jun-hwan scored a total score of 94.80 points and PCS points of 90.20. I got a score of 185.00.
Cha Jun-hwan won the competition with a total of 283.31 points, including 98.31 points in the short program.
In both the short and the total, this is an all-time personal best.
Cha Jun-hwan took the first place overall (522.47 points) by adding the total points from the first round (239.16 points) and the second round, and obtained the right to participate in the Beijing Olympics, giving up to the second place.
Si-hyeong Lee (Korea University), who finished second with 240.84 points in the second round and 477.85 points in the first and second rounds, also won the Olympic spot for the first time in her life.
Following the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, Cha Jun-hwan set the record for the second consecutive Olympics.
He is the third Korean male single player to participate in the Olympic Games twice in a row, following Jeong Seong-il (Calgary in 1988, Albertville in 1992, Lillehammer in 1994) and Kyu-hyun Lee (Nagano in 1998, Salt Lake City in 2002).
Cha Jun-hwan competed in the Pyeongchang Olympics while attending Whimoon High School and ranked 15th in the history of Korean men’s singles with a score of 248.59.
As the first acting task of the day, Cha Jun-hwan had a smooth start by successfully performing the quadruple toe loop, which is a four-round jump.
Then, he perfectly jumped to the quadruple salcho and showed off his overwhelming technology.
Following the triple lutz jump, Cha Jun-hwan lightly jumped to triple axel consecutive jumps and triple axel solo jumps.
Cha Jun-hwan, who played the 4th and 3rd and a half high-level jumps without mistakes, was a little shaken as if his stamina had dropped in the second half.
In the triple lutz-triple loop combination jump, the landing was shaky, and in the triple flip combination jump, the number of revolutions in the last jump was insufficient.
Still, Cha Jun-hwan completed the acting after receiving the highest level of level 4 for the step sequence and 3 spin assignments.
(Photo = Yonhap News)
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