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Korea Herald
31-03-2025
- Sport
- Korea Herald
Ex-silver medalist Cha Jun-hwan finishes 7th at figure skating worlds
South Korean figure skater Cha Jun-hwan has finished off the podium at the world championships in the United States, unable to add to the silver medal he'd captured two years ago. Cha had 265.74 points overall to finish seventh at the International Skating Union World Figure Skating Championships at TD Garden in Boston on Saturday (local time). Cha, the 2023 world silver medalist, scored 179.33 points in his free skate Saturday, the fifth best among 24 skaters, but he still couldn't overcome a shaky short program from two days earlier, when he had 86.41 points to rank only 10th. Ilia Malinin of the United States won his second straight world title with 318.56 points overall, and Mikhail Shaidorov of Kazakhstan finished a distant runner-up with 287.47 points. Yuma Kagiyama of Japan took the bronze with 278.19 points. By finishing in the top 10 as the only South Korean in the free skate, Cha secured one quota place for South Korea for the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy and also an extra entry for the Olympic qualifying competition in September. Cha, 23, remains the only South Korean male figure skater to have won a world championship medal. (Yonhap)
Korea Herald
14-02-2025
- Sport
- Korea Herald
Women's curling team wrap up Asiad with Korea's 16th gold medal
South Korea edged out China in the Harbin Asian Winter Games women's curling event Friday, clinching its 16th gold medal in what has been one of the country's most successful runs in the event. Korea's women's curling team, captained by Gim Eun-ji, defeated the home nation 7-2 at the Harbin Pingfang District Curling Arena in China on Friday. They completed a sweep of the event, going undefeated throughout the knock-out tournament. The last time that Korea won gold for an Asian Games curling event was in 2007. Hopes ran high for Korea to win both the men's and women's curling events, but the men's team fell to the Philippines in the gold-medal match on Thursday. The Philippines pulled away with a 5-3 win, handing Korea their first defeat in the competition. The Korean men's hockey team, who dropped the semifinals match against Japan on Thursday, took home bronze after winning against China on Friday. The women's team, however, fell to Kazakhstan 3-0 in the final match of the round-robin format to finish fourth. Korea surpasses initial goal to finish second overall The women's curling team's gold marked South Korea's 16th gold medal and 44th medal overall in this year's Asian Winter Games, tying the country's record of 16 gold medals won at the 2017 Asian Winter Games. Koreans finished in second place behind China, and comfortably ahead of Japan, in third place with nine gold medals. Korea's performance far surpassed the initial goal of 11 gold medals, even taking some home for events that Korea had never won medals for before. Figure Skater Cha Jun-hwan took a surprise win Thursday in his first Asian Winter Games appearance. Crowned champion of the men's singles event, he became the first Korean male figure skater to win a medal at the Asian Games. Earlier in the day, his teammate Kim Chae-yeon upset three-time world champion Kaori Sakamoto in the figure skating women's singles event for her first Asian Game gold medal. It was the first time Korea won both the men's and women's singles figure skating events at the Asian Winter Games. Ekaterina Avvakumova, a naturalized Korean who was born in Russia, won the country's first-ever biathlon gold in the women's 7.5 kilometer run on Tuesday. She won her second medal of the event when her team won silver for the women's 4 by 6 kilometer relay on Thursday. Another surprise win of the Asian Games belonged to snowboarder Kim Geon-hui, who won a gold medal for the men's halfpipe event after the finals scheduled for Thursday were cancelled due to blustery weather conditions at the venue. He was awarded the win based his qualification score of 78.00 points. Kim's compatriot Lee Chae-un, who lost out on a chance to compete for a gold at his primary event, won his first career Asiad win as well with a gold medal in the men's snowboard slopestyle event.
Korea Herald
11-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Korea Herald
Cha Jun-hwan in 2nd place after short program in men's figure skating at Winter Asiad
Cha Jun-hwan placed second in the short program of the men's singles figure skating in his Asian Winter Games debut in China on Tuesday. Cha, the 2023 world silver medalist, scored his season-best 94.09 points to rank behind Yuma Kagiyama of Japan (103.81) at Heilongjiang Ice Events Training Center Multifunctional Hall in Harbin. Dai Daiwei of China ranked third with 82.89 points. The free skate is scheduled for Thursday. Cha was the last among 16 skaters to take the ice Tuesday, right after Shun Sato, the 2024 Four Continents silver medalist, fell a couple of times and scored a disappointing 70.02 points. Performing to "Natural" by Imagine Dragons, Cha opened with a clean quadruple salchow. He also executed a strong triple lutz-triple loop combination. After a strong flying sit spin, Cha was wobbly in his landing of his third and final jump element, triple axel, though he managed to stay on his feet. Cha closed with a series of spins and steps, and ended up topping 90 points in the short program for the third time in his seven appearances this season. Kagiyama, the 2022 Olympic silver medalist who has also won three silver medals at world championships, is going for his first Asiad title. He surpassed the century mark in his short program for the fourth time this season. The second South Korean in the field, Kim Hyun-gyeom, scored 58.22 points to rank 10th.
