On March 23, Beijing time, the women's singles short program competition of the 2022 Figure Skating World Championships ended, and the third runner-up of the Winter Olympics, Hanaori Sakamoto, led with a score of 80.32 points, and the women's singles champion of the World Championships was very promising. Once Hanori Sakamoto can win the championship, it will be the second time that the Japanese team has won the women's singles championship at the Figure Skating World Championships after a gap of 8 years.
In this competition, Sherbakova, Trusova, Vallieva 3 major championship favorites can not participate, of course, Chinese players are also no one to register, the Winter Olympic women's singles runner-up Sakamoto Hanori became the biggest hit, the new Japanese sister who welcomed the bronze medal at the Winter Olympics lived up to expectations, the short program scored 80.32 points, with a greater advantage into the free skating.
The score of this short show set a personal record for Hanori Sakamoto, and the score is quite high, and it will be second only to Vallieva's 82.16 points at the Winter Olympics, surpassing the 80.20 points of Serbakova who won the final championship and the 74.60 points of runner-up Trusova. Of course, it also exceeded Sakamoto's own 79.84 points in the short program of the Winter Olympics.
It should be said that the possibility of Hanori Sakamoto winning the World Championship is quite large. Don't forget, Sakamoto Hanori also scored 78.90 points in the free skating competition at the Winter Olympics, although the gap between Sasha and Qianjin is obvious, but at present, no one can threaten her in the World Championships. So, the new women's singles champion at the Figure Skating World Championships is coming out? The last Japanese player to win the figure skating women's singles championship was Masayoshi Asada in 2014, and after the release of super players such as Medvedeva, Zagitova and Sherbakova, the Japanese women's singles has never won the championship again.
Of course, it must be admitted that in the case that Sherbakova, Trusova and Vallieva failed to participate, the gold content of this figure skating World Championships is really not flattering.