Beijing time on March 25 news, the 2021 Figure Skating World Championships in Stockholm, Sweden ended the first day of competition. In the pair skating short program, Sui Wenjing/Han Cong's comeback debut performed remarkablely, ranking second with 77.62 points, and Peng Cheng/Jin Yang ranked fifth with 71.32 points. In the women's singles short program, Chen Hongyi scored a new personal best of 58.81 points, ranking 22nd, and Russia's Serbakova ranked first.
This year's World Championships is the only international event in figure skating this season and the qualifier for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. The Chinese team sent all the main players to participate, and the team members received the new crown vaccine before going abroad, and strived to achieve good results under the premise of ensuring safety and health.
Sui Wenjing / Han Cong's 18th appearance, which is Han Cong's return to the field after hip surgery, which is a comeback debut. Sui Wenjing/Han Cong's short program was exchanged for "Blues for Klook" in the 2016-2017 season, and although the opening single jump was slightly flawed, the subsequent throwing jump and spin were completed steadily and well, and the artistic appeal was strong, scoring 77.62 points, ranking second.
Peng Cheng/Jin Yang appeared in the penultimate second appearance in the last group, and the two completed the set of actions better, but there were still more obvious mistakes, scoring 71.32 points, ranking fifth. The Russian duo played well, with Boykova/Kozlovsky ranking first with 80.16 points, Myshna/Garlyamov third with 75.79 points, Tarasova/Morozov fourth with 71.46 points, and China and Russia in the top five.
Pair skating is the dominant event in Figure Skating in China, at the 1999 World Championships, Shen Xue/Zhao Hongbo won a valuable silver medal, which was the first time that the Chinese team reached the podium at the World Championships, shen Xue/Zhao Hongbo won the silver medal again at the 2000 World Championships in France, and won the bronze medal at the 2001 World Championships in Vancouver.
At the 2002 and 2003 World Championships, Shen Xue/Zhao Hongbo won the World Championships double skating championships in consecutive times against Russia's strongest tortmi anana/Marinen; at the 2004 World Championships, Shen Xue/Zhao Hongbo and Pang Qing/Tong Jian won silver and bronze medals, and the championship was taken away by Totmi Anina/Marinen.
At the 2005 Moscow World Championships, Totmi Anina/Marinen successfully defended their title at home, and Zhang Dan/Zhang Hao won the bronze medal. At the 2006 World Championships in Calgary, Pang Qing/Tong Jian pressed Zhang Dan/Zhang Hao to win the championship, and at the 2007 World Championships in Tokyo, Shen Xue/Zhao Hongbo pressed Pang Qing/Tong Jian to reach the top for the third time; in the next two World Championships, Zhang Dan/Zhang Hao won silver medals consecutively.
At the 2010 World Championships in Turin, Pang Qing/Tong Jian reached the top for the second time, and the following year they won the bronze medal in Moscow. At the 2015 Shanghai World Championships, the Chinese team's two-pair combination took the podium, Sui Wenjing/Han Cong won the silver medal, Pang Qing/Tong Jian won the bronze medal, and at the 2016 World Championships, Sui Wenjing/Han Cong won the silver again.
At the 2017 Helsinki World Championships, Sui Wenjing/Han Cong reached the top for the first time, and at the 2019 World Championships, the "Onion Barrel Combination" won the championship again, which was China's 7th World Championships gold medal in pair skating. The 2020 Montreal World Championships were cancelled due to covid-19, and this year's World Championships in Stockholm, led by Sui Wenjing/Han Cong.
Women's singles short program, the second time to participate in the World Championships of Chinese player Chen Hongyi appeared in the 9th appearance, she performed the song "Paradise Cinema" more well, the first jump week was less than enough, the second half of several spins were relegated, and there was room for improvement, and finally scored 58.81 points, refreshing the personal best record set at the 2019 World Championships, ranking 22nd. Russia's Serbakova made her World Championship debut with 81 points. Kihei Ewha and Tuktamisheva ranked second and third respectively.