The poster for the first stop of the 2021-2022 National Figure Skating Junior Championships Photo courtesy of the Chinese Figure Skating Association
China News Service, Beijing, September 16th. The 2021-2022 National Figure Skating Junior Championships and the first leg of the U-series Junior Competition ended a few days ago. 229 players participated in the competition, and the champions of all age groups belonged to their own.
In Junior Group A, athlete Jiang Zhiao from the Heilongjiang Ice Training Center and Zhou Xuhan, athlete from the All-Star Club Shanghai Impression City Store, won the men’s and women’s singles champions. Athletes from the Harbin Winter Sports Training Center Liu Tong/Ge Quanshuo won the ice dance champions. Heilongjiang Province’s ice training Center Young Dream team won the queue skating championship.
In Junior Group B, Jiang Zhiao also won the Men’s Singles Championship in Junior Group B, and the Women’s Singles Championship was won by Wang Yihan from the Harbin Winter Sports Training Center. Li Zhixuan/Li Junting won the ice dance championship in this category. The two contestants represented the Heilongjiang Provincial Ice Training Center and the Harbin Winter Sports Training Center.
In Junior Group C, Tang Hanping, an athlete from the dazzling Beijing West Chang’an Store, and Li Yuhan, an athlete from the First Sports Store of the Century Star Club of Beijing, won the men’s and women’s singles championships. Wang Kexin/Yan Haoqian, representing Tus Bright Beijing West Chang’an Store, won the double skating championship.
Jiang Zhi’ao performed brilliantly in this junior competition and won two championships in Junior Group A and Group B. This season, his two sets of repertoire have very different styles. The short program “Flamingo” is passionate and unrestrained, and the free skating “Cathedral Age + Sing for Me” is gloomy and deep. In the competition, he not only interprets the two styles well, but also completes the technical moves with high quality, and better demonstrates the training results.
Jiang Zhiao was particularly satisfied with the completion of the jump in the game. “In the past period of time, Teacher Jia Shuguang has been focusing on improving the quality of my two-week jump. I started to try harder jumps in the second half of last year. At first I was scared, but under the guidance of Teacher Jia, I overcame my mentality problems. Jumping has also been greatly improved.” According to coach Jia Shuguang, this young player has already mastered high quality for two and a half weeks, three weeks in the back and three weeks in the back and out, and he is practicing advanced three weeks and three consecutive jumps. action.
For the next training, coach Jia Shuguang hopes that this caring and resilient boy can be down-to-earth and lay a solid foundation. “Including the use of the blade and the posture in the air, he must be standardized. He also hopes that through continuous and unremitting efforts, he will stand as soon as possible. Go to the international arena.”
Zhou Xuhan participated in the junior competition for the second time. In the last competition, she won the junior group B championship. Ice fans who support Zhou Xuhan like to call her by her nickname-Tiantian. She wore a pink dress and a playful pigtail in the free skating last season, and she kept smiling during the performance, which was impressive.
This season, Tian Tian is still confident and loves to laugh, but from the selection of music to the performance style, we can see that she has a sense of maturity and stability. The short program music expresses a wife’s deep nostalgia for her late husband, and the free skating from “The Phantom of the Opera” expresses the longing for a bright future of two people in love. “I like these two pieces of music very much, and I have better expressed my understanding of the music in the competition. The shortcomings are that the sliding technique and rotation need to be improved, and the quality of jumping should also be strengthened.” Zhou Xuhan said.
In the past two years, with the help of coach Bao Li, Zhou Xuhan has completed 5 types of triple jumps. However, as the height and weight increase, it also brings certain challenges to training. “Next, I will continue to work hard to improve the speed of sliding and rotation, as well as the quality of the jump, and sprint to a higher level of jump.”
Since the start of the club league, Liu Tong/Ge Quanshuo have participated in three sub-stations and the finals. In addition to this junior competition, they won 5 championships in less than 2 months. While bringing wonderful performances to the ice fans, they also exercised themselves in the intense rhythm of competition.
“The overall performance of these competitions is good, and the degree of completion of the program is also good. Individual footwork and rotation need to be improved.” Liu Tong said.
This is the fourth year they have participated in the competition with their partners. Since their debut, the pair of Xiaobingwu has strength, good looks, and very popular. When they made their debut at the beginning of the season, everyone found that they had not seen each other for the first time in a few months. “This season’s selection of waltz and blues is more classic. Free skating chose “Four Seasons” as the music. I want to present a different style from last season’s “Ace Spy”,” said the two athletes.
Coach Zheng Xun also fully affirmed the performance of the two young players. “The training during the epidemic was not as systematic as usual, and the preparations at the beginning of the season were not particularly adequate. Fortunately, the children have withstood the pressure and achieved their best level so far.”
Except for Liu Tong/Ge Quanshuo, in recent competitions, the overall performance of ice dancers from Harbin has been outstanding. Coach Zheng Xun felt that this benefited from the healthy competition within the team. “In the team, everyone is training compared to someone who practices more, and who practices better. This kind of state promotes training, mutual supervision, and mutual growth.”
Speaking of expectations for the future of this combination, he said, “Liu Tong and Ge Quanshuo started professional training very early, and they were technically solid and had a very high degree of understanding. The two people progress and grow together, and look forward to their standing in the future. The Winter Olympics arena, win glory for the country.”
As single skaters, both Wang Kexin and Yan Haoqian have achieved good results. For the first time this season, they partnered to participate in the double skating competition. The two won the junior junior group championship in the third leg of the club league. This junior competition also had a good performance. “Single transfer is very neat. However, the required transfer has not been completed in 1 week, and the tacit understanding needs to be improved.” The two said.
Speaking of the different feelings of participating in the double skating competition, the two expressed both nervousness and excitement. “There is a different sense of tension, you have to protect your female companion, and you have to have a tacit understanding.” Yan Haoqian said. (over)
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