They brought down Japan Kim Chae-yeon → Cha Jun-hwan, figure AG's first gold medal together...Another gift for military service

Feb 13, 2025

They brought down Japan Kim Chae-yeon → Cha Jun-hwan, figure AG's first gold medal together...Another gift for military service
Cha Jun-hwan, this is the gold medal

(Harbin = Yonhap News) Reporter Park Dong-ju = Figure skating Cha Jun-hwan is taking a commemorative photo with the Korean national flag after winning the gold medal in the men's single at the Harbin Winter Asian Games held at the Multi-Purpose Hall of the Harbin Heilongjiang Ice and Training Center in China on the 13th. 2025.2.13



They brought down Japan Kim Chae-yeon → Cha Jun-hwan, figure AG's first gold medal together...Another gift for military service
Cha Jun-hwan Surprised Harbin

(Harbin = Yonhap News) Reporter Park Dong-ju = Figure skating Cha Jun-hwan is performing in the men's single free skating at the Harbin Winter Asian Games at the Multi-Purpose Hall of the Heilongjiang Ice and Training Center in Harbin, China, on the 13th. 2025.2.13
They brought down Japan Kim Chae-yeon → Cha Jun-hwan, figure AG's first gold medal together...Another gift for military service
Flower Crown by Kim Chae-yeon by Sat-byeol

(Harbin = Yonhap News) Reporter Seo Dae-yeon = Figure skating Kim Chae-yeon won a gold medal in the women's single at the Harbin Winter Asian Games held at the multipurpose hall of the ice training center in Harbin Heilongjiang, China on the 13th, and is wearing a crown made of flowers.

Kim Chae-yeon beat world No. 1 Kaori Sakamoto (Japan) to win the gold medal in the match. 2025.2.13
Cha Jun-hwan (Korea University), the men's single sign for figure skating, has finally reached the top of Asia.

Cha Jun-hwan received a total of 187.60 points in the men's single free skate at the 2025 Harbin Winter Asian Games, which was held at the multipurpose hall of the Heilongjiang Ice Skating Center in China on the 13th, including 99.02 points in technical score (TES) and 88.58 points in artistic score (PCS). He won the gold medal by beating Yuma Kagiyama (272.76 points from Japan), the strongest in Asia, with a total score of 281.69 points, including 94.09 points from the short program.

The Korean figure skating team achieved the result of winning the men's and women's singles in this competition following the women's single Kim Chae-yeon (Surigo). This is the first time that he has won more than two medals at the Asian Winter Games. For Korean figure skating, Yang Tae-hwa and Icheon won the ice dance bronze medal at the 1999 Gangwon Games. Kwak Min-jeong won the bronze medal in women's singles at the 2011 Almaty Games and Choi Dae-bin won the gold medal in women's singles at the 2017 Sapporo Games. Figure skating queen'Kim Yu-na has never competed in the Asian Games.




Cha Jun-hwan, who was the 14th overall, started acting to the melody of the free skating program 'Balada para un Loco'. He played the first task, the high-level quadruple salco perfectly, followed by a neat quadruple toe loop.

They brought down Japan Kim Chae-yeon → Cha Jun-hwan, figure AG's first gold medal together...Another gift for military service
Cha Jun-hwan on the stage in Harbin, Ice Kingdom

(Harbin = Yonhap News) Reporter Seo Dae-yeon = Figure skating Cha Jun-hwan performs in the men's single free skating at the Harbin Winter Asian Games held at the Multi-Purpose Hall of the Heilongjiang Ice and Training Center in Harbin, China on the 13th.

Cha Jun-hwan won the event with a final total score of 281.69 points, including 94.09 points for the short program. 2025.2.13
They brought down Japan Kim Chae-yeon → Cha Jun-hwan, figure AG's first gold medal together...Another gift for military service
Cha Jun-hwan, this is the gold medal

(Harbin = Yonhap News) Reporter Park Dong-ju = Figure skating Cha Jun-hwan is taking a commemorative photo with a medal after winning a gold medal in the men's single at the Harbin Winter Asian Games held at the Multi-Purpose Hall of the Harbin Heilongjiang Ice and Training Center in China on the 13th. 2025.2.13
Cha Jun-hwan tried to run a triple lutz-triple loop combination jump, but when he couldn't attach the back jump, he performed it as a lutz solo jump. After that, he performed the triple axel that went three and a half laps without much shaking.

Cha Jun-hwan, who caught the audience's attention with his elegant step sequence (level 4), also did a clean job of acting in the second half with 10% extra points. The triple flip-single Euler-triple Salco combination jump and triple axel-double axel sequence jump were handled neatly.




Cha Jun-hwan, who added a change foot combination spin (level 3), ran with a triple flip in the first half of the final jump task. The landing was slightly shaken and there was a lack of rotation, but it was not a big mistake.

Cha Jun-hwan finished his performance with Correo Sequence, Flying Carmel Spin (Level 4), and Flying Change Foot Combination Spin (Level 4). Kagiyama, who then performed his acting, collapsed after failing to properly perform the jumping task at the beginning of the acting. He is Asia's best athlete who won a silver medal in the men's singles at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.

Cha Jun-hwan watched Kagiyama's performance on TV. He said "To be honest, I was satisfied with the content of my game, and I didn't have any regrets, so it didn't matter what the outcome was"I didn't hit my personal highest score, which was my goal, but I'm glad I got a satisfactory result in the free skate."




He gets military service with the Asian Games gold medal. But I didn't get greedy. I didn't add a high-level jump, and I composed a program as usual.

They brought down Japan Kim Chae-yeon → Cha Jun-hwan, figure AG's first gold medal together...Another gift for military service
Cha Jun-hwan, gold medal winner

(Harbin = Yonhap News) Reporter Park Dong-ju = Figure skating Cha Jun-hwan is on the podium with a medal around his neck after winning the gold medal in the men's single at the Harbin Winter Asian Games held at the multipurpose hall of the Harbin Heilongjiang Ice and Training Center in China on the 13th. 2025.2.13
They brought down Japan Kim Chae-yeon → Cha Jun-hwan, figure AG's first gold medal together...Another gift for military service
Figure Bird Kim Chae-yeon's golden smile

(Harbin = Yonhap News) Reporter Seo Dae-yeon = Figure skating Kim Chae-yeon won a gold medal in the women's singles at the Harbin Winter Asian Games held at the Multi-Purpose Hall of the Heilongjiang Ice and Training Center in Harbin, China on the 13th. Sakamoto Kaori of Japan, who won the silver medal on the left, and Yoshida Hana of Japan, who won the bronze medal on the right. 2025.2.13
Cha Jun-hwan thought, `If you hope for something great and are greedy, it's not going down the path of effort. There was a dangerous moment during today's acting, but I think I overcame it well"After recovering from the injury, we will try to perform a stable game while raising the difficulty of program composition."

Cha Jun-hwan, who moaned due to a right ankle injury this season, performed his last jump as a combination jump because he was unable to connect in a dangerous situation for the postponement. I'm glad I didn't make a big mistake."

Meanwhile, Kim Chae-yeon scored a total of 147.56 points in the women's single free skate of figure skating, including 79.07 points in technical score (TES) and 68.49 points in art score (PCS). He beat Sakamoto Kaori (211.90 points in Japan) with a final total score of 219.44 points, including 71.88 points in the short program. Sakamoto, who has won three consecutive World Championships, dropped his head after making a jump mistake in free skating.

Kim Chae-yeon said "Sakamoto is a really good player. I don't think I can believe it"I wanted to beat Sakamoto at least once, but I'm so honored to beat Sakamoto in such a big competition."



This article was translated by Naver AI translator.