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Post by Admin on Mar 25, 2021 19:37:34 GMT
Winner of the day | Yuzuru Hanyu (JPN) | Men's Short Program | ISU #WorldFigure Championships Hanyu Yuzuru would like a third - and charming - world title to his name. The two-time Olympic and world champion from Japan was in scintillating form on Thursday, hitting a 106.98 on the day to earn a comfortable lead in an afternoon of inspiring men's singles skating at the ISU World Figure Skating Championships in Stockholm, Sweden. Two-time and reigning world champ Nathan Chen fell on his opening jump, a quadruple Lutz. He's in third place with a score of 98.85. Kagiyama Yuma, the 17-year-old from Japan who was the 2020 Youth Olympic Games champion, wowed in his senior worlds debut, hitting the triple-digit mark with a 100.96, delighting his coach and father, two-time Olympian, Masakazu. Worlds marks the first time that Hanyu and Chen are meeting in 16 months, since the 2019 Grand Prix Final in Turin. Chen won there - and the American hasn't lost in nine consecutive international events since the 2018 Olympic Games. Hanyu will take an eight-point advantage over Chen into the free skate, set for Saturday afternoon local time. Hanyu is looking for his first world title since 2017. Chen's fall was his first in competition since the Grand Prix Final in 2018, some 120 jumps, according to NBC Sports. The quality, however, was clear in the men's event through the top seven and beyond: 2018 world bronze medallist Mikhail Kolyada is fourth with a 93.52, Canada's Keegan Messing fifth behind a 93.51, 2018 Olympic silver medallist Uno Shoma sixth (92.62) and American Jason Brown seventh (91.25). 2019 world bronze medallist Vincent Zhou had a nightmare short program, falling twice in three jumping passes and sinking to a 70.51 score. He failed to make the free skate cut of the top 24 skaters.
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Post by Admin on Mar 25, 2021 22:17:20 GMT
Press Conference: Pairs Free Skating | ISU #WorldFigure Skating Championships | Stockholm 2021
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Post by Admin on Mar 26, 2021 0:40:17 GMT
Japan's Yuzuru Hanyu leads figure skating world championships after men's short program
2-time Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu of Japan leads after the men's short program scoring 106.98 at the world championships in Stockholm, Sweden on March 25, 2021.
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Post by Admin on Mar 26, 2021 2:52:30 GMT
Winner of the Day | Anastasia Mishina / Aleksandr Galliamov (FSR) | Pairs | #WorldFigure Anastasia Mishina and Aleksandr Galliamov did on Thursday what no Russian pairs’ team had been able to do in the previous eight years – win a world title – and they did so in their senior world championships debut. In doing so, they became the youngest pairs’ world champions since the legendary Russians Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergey Grinkov, who won four titles from 1986-90 while Gordeeva was a teenager. With a total score of 227.59, the Russians outperformed two-time world champions Sui Wenjing and Han Cong of China (225.71). The most decorated active pairs’ team, Sui and Han now have five world medals after claiming gold in 2017 and 2019, and silver in 2015 and 2016. Mishina and Galliamov’s countrymates Aleksandra Boikova and Dmitry Kozlovsky, who share their ages of 19 and 21, respectively, took the bronze with a 217.63 total. Boikova and Galliamov were in first after Wednesday’s short program in Stockholm. Mishina and Galliamov, who won the 2019 world junior title, are the first pair from once dominant Russia to win a world title since Tatyana Volosozhar and Maksim Trankov, who ended an eight-year drought in 2013. This year, skaters are representing the Russian Skating Federation – as opposed to Russia – as the nation’s flag and anthem are barred from major international sporting events due to doping issues.
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Post by Admin on Mar 26, 2021 5:45:43 GMT
Anna Shcherbakova Leads After Women's Short at World Championships | THAT FIGURE SKATING SHOW LIVE Wow - the 2021 World Figure Skating Championships started with a bang. The women's short was action-packed: Anna Shcherbakova put down an incredible program, Rika Kihira and Elizaveta Tuktamysehva hit their triple axels and Alexandra Trusova surprisingly sits 12th going into the free. Asher and Dylan break it all down, explain what's happening with COVID-19 AND the one and only 2018 world champion Kaetlyn Osmond joins in on the fun! She's got some great Worlds stories, so don't miss it. Stream Ladies Short Program: www.cbc.ca/1.5954461
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