World Championship medal red light for 2 consecutive years
A dark cloud has fallen over the challenge of Cha Jun-hwan (Korea University), the leading Korean figure skating men's singles figure skater, to win a medal at the World Championships for two consecutive years.
It included difficult jumps and chose challenge over stability, but a jump mistake made him fall out of the medal zone.
Cha Jun-hwan scored 46.27 technical points (TES), 42.94 artistic points (PCS), and a deduction in the men's single short program at the 2024 International Skating Union (ISU) Figure Skating World Championships held at the Bell Center in Montreal, Canada on the 22nd (Korean time). Received 88.21 points, including 1 point.
I ranked 9th out of 40 people.
Shoma Uno (Japan) ranked first with 107.72 points, followed by Yuma Kagiyama (Japan) with 106.35 points.
Cha Jun-hwan also fell far behind Ilya Malinin (USA), who came in third place with 105.97 points.
Cha Jun-hwan won a silver medal at last year's World Championships. Cha Jun-hwan was the first Korean male athlete to win a medal at the figure skating world championships. However, as the gap between 1st and 3rd places widened significantly, it became difficult to achieve his dream of winning a medal for the second year in a row. The men's single free skating will take place on the 24th. Cha Jun-hwan fell on the ice while performing his first jumping task, a quadruple salchow-triple toe loop combination jump. He jumped his first jump, the quadruple salchow, without a mistake, but while connecting the triple toe loop, he sprained and hit his butt hard. Due to a jumping mistake, the score of execution (GOE) was reduced by 4.85 points, and a point deduction was also imposed. However, Cha Jun-hwan did not make any mistakes after that. Cha Jun-hwan, who perfectly jumped the quadruple toe loop solo jump and earned a GOE of 2.58 points, handled the flying camel spin at level 4, the highest level of difficulty. Cha Jun-hwan easily performed the triple axel, which was placed at the end of the performance, for which an additional 10% point was given. Cha Jun-hwan finished his performance by performing the change foot sit spin, change foot combination spin, and step sequence all at level 4. Cha Jun-hwan, who had been attempting the 4th and 3rd rotation combination jump for several years with the dream of an Olympic medal, struggled with an ankle injury this season. I have rarely been able to attempt a 4th or 3rd rotation jump in international competitions. Although he was able to pursue stability in this competition by lowering the jump difficulty, Cha Jun-hwan took on the challenge again by attempting a 4-turn and 3-turn combination jump. After finishing the short program, Cha Jun-hwan said, “It wasn’t because my ankle injury was getting better, but I tried a challenging composition for myself later. “He was embarrassed because he made a mistake on his first jump, but he performed with the mindset that he would do his best.” He continued, “It’s unfortunate that I made a mistake, but I’m satisfied that I did my best until the end. “I had a different mindset ahead of the World Championships after having a rough season this year,” he said. “I didn’t give up on myself, so my biggest goal was to do my best no matter what the result without regrets.” “There were mistakes, but we achieved our goal of doing our best.” Kim Hyeon-gyeom (Han Advertising), who also competed, ranked 21st with 74.89 points. Lee Si-hyung stayed in 24th place with 73.23 points. 고스톱사이트