chinese figure skating has another good news: wang yihan wins the thailand station championship
2024-09-15
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xinhua news agency, beijing, september 14 (reporter li jia) the 14-year-old beijing teenager wang yihan defeated two japanese players in the isu figure skating junior grand prix thailand station on the 13th and won her first youth grand prix championship.
wang yihan took the lead in the short program. in the free skating, she was the last to perform, and performed "the grandmaster" brilliantly. the whole program was clean and smooth, with both difficulty and quality, and there were no mistakes. in particular, she beautifully completed the triple lutz followed by the double axel followed by the double axel in the second half of the program. in the end, she won the championship with a total score of 194.71 points, beating the two japanese players.
after the game, wang yihan accepted an on-site interview in english. she said: "i am very happy and surprised. if i can participate in the grand prix final, i will be very happy. i didn't think i could win. i just wanted to complete a complete program."
wang yihan is the youth group champion of this year's "fourteenth winter games", the youth group champion of the club league finals, and also won fourth place in the grand prix poland station.
the 2024 winter youth olympic games bronze medalists, japanese young players takagi yo and okada mei, took second and third place respectively. the winter youth olympic games runner-up, south korean player shin ji-ah, who is known as the successor to kim yuna, ranked fourth.
after the start of the new season, the young generation of chinese figure skating has performed well. pair skaters zhang jiaxuan/huang yihang won the first stop of the youth grand prix in latvia at the end of august; then the pair skating combination zhang xuanqi/feng wenqiang won the second stop of the youth grand prix in the czech republic in september. an xiangyi defeated japanese player yamashita mayu and famous player mihara mai in the 2024 figure skating asian open women's singles adult group, successfully defended her title, and also won a place for the chinese women's singles in this season's world championships.
