In the early morning of March 27, Beijing time, the 2022 World Figure Skating Championships ended in Montpellier, France. Because many stars did not participate, the stars of this World Championship after the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing dimmed. Thanks to the absence of many masters, the American duo of Cornem/Fletzer won the pair skating championship with a total score of 221.09 points, which is the first pair of American athletes to win the world championship in the pair skating event since 1979, which can be described as a 43-year gap. Similarly, the third place in the figure skating women's singles at the Beijing Winter Olympics, Hanori Sakamoto, won the championship, allowing the Japanese team to win the women's singles crown at the World Figure Skating Championships after 8 years.
The winner after 43 years
The Chinese team, including sui wenjing and Han Cong, a new figure skater in figure skating at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, withdrew from the World Championships, while the powerful Russian team could not participate, which overshadowed the pair skating, women's singles and ice dance competitions, while Japan's famous Yu Sheng and the Beijing Winter Olympics men's singles champion Chen Wei both withdrew from the World Championships, and let the men's singles field lose starlight. All in all, the gold content of the 2022 Figure Skating World Championships is the lowest in nearly 20 years.
American combination Cornem/Fletzer
In the absence of all the top five figure skating in figure skating at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, the American duo of Cornem/Fletzer stood out, and the previous pair skating short program competition was all the way ahead. In the free skating arena, the two scored a career-high 144.21 points and won the championship with a total score of 221.09 points. The INTERNATIONAL SKATING FEDERATION said it was the first pair of American athletes to win the World Championships in pair skating since 1979. Except for the Pair of American players, the other combinations have failed to break the total score threshold of 200 points, which shows that the overall level is not high.
The Japanese duo riri Miura /Ryuichi Kihara, who finished seventh in pair skating at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, made several mistakes in the free skating competition, but still finished second with an overall score of 199.55, while the Canadian duo James/Rufford, who only finished fifth in the short program, scored 130.78 points in free skating, thus winning the bronze medal with a total score of 197.32 points.
It took 8 years for the Japanese women's singles to win the title
Due to the ban of the Russian figure skating women's singles master, the level of women's singles competition at this world figure skating championships is not very high. Of course, the competition is the world championship after all, the champion is naturally the world champion, and the competition is still fierce.
Japan's Hanori Sakamoto
In the women's singles free skating competition, Japan's Hanaori Sakamoto, who had led the women's singles short program before, continued the good competitive state of the Beijing Winter Olympics, completed the action with high quality, and the artistic expression was equally outstanding, scoring 155.77 points in the free skating, thus winning the gold with a total score of 236.09 points, and breaking his career scoring record. This championship is not only the first world championship of Sakamoto's own career, but also the women's singles world championship after eight years after Japan's Asada Masayoshi won the 2014 World Championships.
Belgian Hendricks, who was second in the short show, scored 142.70 points in the free skating, with a total score of 217.70 points to win silver, which was her first world championship medal. Liu Meixian, an American athlete and two-time national champion, won the bronze medal with the second highest technical score in free skating, with a total score of 211.19 points, the American Bell won the fourth place with a total score of 208.66 points, and South Korea's Liu Yong won the fifth with a total score of 204.91 points.
The Japanese men's singles as a whole remains strong
In the men's singles free skating competition of the 2022 World Figure Skating Championships in Montpellier, France, which ended late on the night of March 26, Beijing time, Japan's Masamo Uno won the men's singles championship with a total score of 312.48 points.
At the Figure Skating World Championships, the Winter Olympics figure skating men's singles new branch Leader Chen Wei, and the absence of Japan's famous Yu Yu Yu, the competition lacked starlight. However, the overall strength of the Japanese men's singles is still strong. In the men's singles short program, the three players of the Japanese team, Masami Uno, Yumasa Keyyama and Kazuki Tono, won the top three.
Japanese Hate Uno Masama
In the men's singles free skating competition, Uno Masama performed very steadily, the technical difficulty and artistic expression were amazing, and finally won the championship with a clear advantage of 312.48 points, while the Japanese rising star and the runner-up of the men's singles at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, Yugen Jianshan, won the silver medal with a total score of 297.60 points.
Chinese American zhou Zhifang previously missed the men's single skating competition at the Beijing Winter Olympics because of the new crown positive, and he only ranked sixth in the men's singles short program of the World Championships. However, with the free skating "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" scored 181.54 points, thus achieving a counterattack, and won the bronze medal with a total score of 277.38 points.
The ice dance Winter Olympic champion is not diminished
In the early morning of February 27, Beijing time, the 2022 World Figure Skating Championships Ice Dance Free Dance Competition ended in Montpellier, France, and the host star, the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics Ice Dance Champion Papadagis / Nishizawa Dragon, won the ice dance championship with a total score of 229.82 points.
In terms of ice dance, the Beijing Winter Olympic champion and French star Papadagis / Nishizawa Long has outstanding strength, before in the ice dance rhythm dance competition has been the leader, the execution of extra points is outstanding, the referee continues to play full points, they ranked first in the ice dance rhythm dance with 92.73 points, once again refreshing the world record of rhythm dance scores held by themselves.
The Beijing Winter Olympics bronze medal duo and the American duo Huber/Donohue continued their technical excellence, with good rating and execution bonus points, and equally outstanding gliding technique and artistic expression, second only to the French duo, with 89.71 points in rhythm dance, and another American pair, Jock/Bates, temporarily ranked third with 87.51 points.
French duo Papadaggis/Caesaron
In the free dance competition, the top three rankings did not change, the French duo Papadagis/Sizeron free dance scored 137.09 points, also set a free dance scoring record, and won the gold with a total score of 229.82 points, the American team Huber/Donohoe won the silver medal with a total score of 222.39 points, and the American team Jock/Bates won the bronze medal with a total score of 216.83 points.
In the four individual competitions of the Figure Skating World Championships, The Japanese athlete won two gold medals in the men's singles and the women's singles, the American athlete won the gold medal in the pairs skating, and the French player won the gold medal in ice dance. At this point, the most important international event of this season's figure skating has come to an end.
Courtesy of the International Skating Union