Figure skating men's and women's singles star Cha Jun-hwan and Kim Chae-yeon won the national competition to compete in the world championship in March (all-around)
Jan 05, 2025
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Cha Jun-hwan scored 98.45 points in technical score (TES) and 92.04 points in art score (PCS) and 190.49 points in men's single free skating at the KB Financial Korea Figure Skating Championship 2025 National Men's and Women's National Figure Skating Championship held at Uijeongbu Ice Rink in Gyeonggi Province on the 5th. The previous day's short program score was 90.53 points, and the final score was 281.02 points. Cha Jun-hwan has become the champion of the tournament for nine consecutive years.
Cha Jun-hwan, who ranked first in the first national team selection match held in November last year, also won the competition, which was held as the second selection match. He will also wear the national flag next season. She has also secured a ticket to the ISU World Championships to be held in Boston in March. The world championships have national quotas for the 2026 Milan-Cortina D'Ampezzo Winter Olympics.
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As the first task of the second half section with an additional 10% point, Cha Jun-hwan succeeded in a triple flip-single Euler-triple Salco combination jump. The subsequent triple axel-double axel sequence jump was also performed neatly. Cha Jun-hwan, who treated the change foot combination spin to level 4, the highest difficulty, landed a triple flip and attempted a combination jump that he missed in the first half. But it finished with a single loop. Cha Jun-hwan finished his performance with Correo sequence, flying camel spin (level 4), and flying change foot combination spin (level 4).
In second place is Seo Min-gyu (Gyeongshin High School), who received a total of 246.78 points. As Seo Min-gyu, who was born in 2008, was subject to the age limit for participating in the senior competition (over 17 years old as of July 1, 2024), the world championship ticket went to Lee Si-hyung (241.69 points, Korea University).
As a result, Cha Joon-hwan, Seo Min-gyu, Lee Si-hyung, Kim Hyun-gyeom (Han Advertising), and Lee Jae-geun (Surigo), who ranked 1st to 5th based on the combined results of the first and second selection matches, were selected as the men's single national team in the 2025-2026 season.
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Kim Chae-yeon played a double axel, the first task, and a triple loop, the second task. Later, on the triple flip-double toe loop-double loop, he received attention on the first jump (watch out for edge use) but landed the triple salco stably. The flying change foot combination spin was treated as level 4.
He earned 1.43 GOE points in the triple lutz-triple toe loop combination jump, the first task of the second half, and added 1.18 points in the triple lutz-double axel sequence. Kim Chae-yeon was also ruled attention again in the triple flip, the final jump task. However, he delicately played the step sequence (level 4), the Correo sequence, the flying Carmel spin (level 4), and the change foot combination spin (level 4), raising the level of completion.
Shin Ji-ah (Sehwa Girls' High School), aiming for her third consecutive victory in the tournament, ranked second with a total score of 214.15. Kim Yu-jae (193.92 points) beat his twin brother Kim Yu-sung (192.52 points, Pyeongchon Middle School) by 1.40 points to win the bronze medal.
Kim Chae-yeon, Yoon Ah-sun (Surigo), and Lee Hae-in (Korea University) won the tickets to the world championships, which will be distributed to the third place in the women's single. Shin Ji-ah, Kim Yoo-jae, and Kim Yoo-sung, ranked second to fourth, failed to meet the age of participating in the ISU Senior Competition, so they went to the second place.
Lee Hae-in was suspended by the Korea Skating Union for unsavory reasons during the off-season training, but he restored his qualification after a court judgment. He also ranked sixth in the combined rankings of the first and second selection games, and will wear the national flag in the next season.
Meanwhile, Lim Hae-na and Kwon Ye-jo (Gyeonggi General), who participated in ice dance alone, scored a total of 175.00 points in the first competition after Kwon Ye (former Quan Ye) acquired Korean nationality.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
