Four Continents Championship figure skating 2018 (eng. 2018 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships) - figure skating competitions among athletes from America, Asia, Africa and Australia and Oceania. The tournament will be held from January 22 to 28, 2018 in the capital of island China, Taipei. Taipei will host the championship for the fourth time, which is a record for the tournament. Medals will be awarded in men's and women's singles skating, in pair skating and in ice dancing.
Participants
Many world figure skating leaders chose to purposefully prepare for the Winter Olympic Games, which will begin just 2 weeks after the end of the Four Continents Championships. Therefore, the composition of the tournament turned out to be somewhat weakened. Of last year's winners, only Japanese Mai Mihara will defend her title. Back at the end of December, information appeared that the leading Japanese singles player Yuzuru Hanyu would not be able to take part in the continental championship due to injury. A week before the starts, all the Chinese greenhouse athletes withdrew: Sui Wenjing and Han Cong, as well as Peng Cheng and Jin Yang.
After numerous refusals, the strongest lineup emerged in men's and women's singles skating. Among the most notable figure skaters who took part in the 2018 Four Continents Championship were the following:
Men's single skating
- Kevin Reynolds (Canada)
- Nam Nguyen (Canada)
- Jin Boyang (China)
- Shoma Uno (Japan)
- Keiji Tanaka (Japan)
- Denis Ten (Kazakhstan)
- Misha Ge (Uzbekistan)
- Jason Brown (USA)
- Max Aaron (USA)
Women's singles skating
- Mai Mihara (Japan)
- Satoko Miyahara (Japan)
- Kaori Sakamoto (Japan)
- Elisabeth Tursynbaeva (Kazakhstan)
- Choi Da Bin (Korea)
- Mariah Bell (USA)
Broadcasts
Live broadcasts of the Four Continents Championship will be available on the following resources:
ISU Skating Channel
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Results of performances at the championship of 4 continents
Women. Short program
Men. Short program
Couples. Free program
Dancing. Free dance
Women. Free program
Men. Free program
Competition schedule (Moscow time)
Today I woke up at six in the morning with the name Rockney Brubaker insistently sounding in my brain. Why the hell this name popped up in my memory, I don’t know, but my instincts, remembering that Rockney was an American, rushed towards the American’s victory. Ah, damn it, my gut feeling was right.
Having completed 5 quads and skated to his full potential, Nathan entered the glorious club of those over three hundred. That's all.
True, before this the content changed beyond recognition free program Yuzuru Hanyu. The fact is that during training in Pyeongchang, Yuzuru’s sworn friend quad Salchow, who had already brought Yuzuru a lot of grief, decided to leave him, let’s remember the last Olympics. And he didn’t go to training with him, even if you cracked. Yuzuru pulled the soul out of himself by jumping him at the very beginning, after the quad loop, but going to him in the second part of the program, where the quad Salchow was paired with a triple toe loop, Yuzuru opened up on two turns and added an oiler to them. Then he suddenly changed his mind and went crazy. Fans of Yuzuru are familiar with the wonders of variation firsthand. Yuzuru periodically created cascades in such a way that people began to blink and demand a repeat. This time we had a classic trixel with a triple sheepskin coat, a quad sheepskin coat, a quad sheepskin coat with a double sheepskin coat and a trixel for a snack. After the performance, he once again bent his fingers and counted his achievements in the field of improvisation. However, the price of victory was not even the double Salchow. She was paid for by breaking the cascade in short program. This failure could only be overcome by flawless execution of the planned content in the free program. The Salchow dog ruined the whole plan. Now this dog will become Yuzuru’s favorite in his diet, and now he will feed the Salchow with his bones even more often. *happy swearing emoticon*
Shoma Uno made a couple of mistakes, and also jumped the quad right at the very beginning of the skate, and his jump was even slightly better than Yuzuru. In short, the Japanese gave up their final places like brothers. On the pedestal they again tried to “play a wedding” and laughed merrily.
Fun fact: Yuzuru is already a three-time CCH silver medalist. This time he wanted gold, but he only had a small amount of gold - for PP. And that's candy.
Fun fact from the score sheets: Nathan jumped an extra double toe loop in the combination. Did the infection spread from Medvedeva, or what?
Boyan didn’t light something up, they say, due to growing up and expansion. Well, the devil knows. Patrick was wrong. Han Yan has such a gorgeous CP- and the PP is kind of terrible, and he rolls it the same way. Jason Brown, they say, arrived with a stress fracture (Kazakh TV), so there were no quads. I don’t remember what I skated, I was terrified of waiting for the tops. Well, some of the tops were weird. Damn you, Rockne Brubaker! *Cheshire smiley*
This year's World Championships will be held in Helsinki. Let's see how Europe judges our handsome men. To be honest, it doesn’t really solve anything. The most important thing will begin to happen exactly with the start of the Grand Prix series of the next season, which is our pre-Olympic season. According to my observations, the judges are paying off some old debts this season, and the real Hell and Israel will begin only next season. So we divide all victories by two and subtract alimony.
Perhaps the most high-profile event of the Four Continents Tournament, which ended in Seoul, was the victory in the men's singles tournament of Kazakhstan's Ten. This is the first big title in the career of the 21-year-old skater. But this is not even the most important thing.
The bronze medalist of the Sochi Olympics received an astronomical amount of points for his performance: 97.61 for the short program, 191.85 for the free program and 289.46 for the total.
Today it is best result seasons in the world. Denis exceeded the result by more than a point Olympic champion Sochi Yuzuru Hanyu, shown at the final of the Grand Prix series in Barcelona, where Ten did not make it at all. The Japanese himself missed the Four Continents Tournament because immediately after the Japanese Championship he was hospitalized and underwent surgery.
The assessment of the Kazakh skater is explained simply. In his free program, Ten perfectly performed two quadruple jump, receiving a large premium for their quality of workmanship, as well as for most other elements. And if it weren’t for the blemish on the exit from the triple axel, his technical score could have been even higher.
In addition, Denis had five jumps in the second half of the program (for this an additional increase in points is due), and all non-jumping elements of his free program were rated at the highest, fourth level of difficulty. And, of course, one cannot fail to note the extremely generous points for the program components, including two “tens” for choreography and interpretation.
Ten has demonstrated a similar trick more than once in recent years. Having not had the most impressive first half of the season, after the New Year he transformed and brought himself to the main competitions of the year in excellent shape, demonstrating absolutely amazing skating there. And as a result, a guy from a country that is not the most reputable in this sport, from whom much is not expected, made his way to the podium of the World Championship and Olympic Games bypassing much more serious-looking contenders.
Moreover, many experts agree that if not for his low status in the eyes of the judges, Ten could have won his first major international title much earlier than Seoul.
Now we can confidently say that there is one more serious contender for the crown at the March World Championships in Shanghai.
Another important event of the tournament from the point of view of the struggle for world domination in figure skating was the second consecutive victory of the Canadians Caitlin over the Americans Madison Chock and in the dancing competition.
In December, representatives of the Country of the Maple Leaf already reserved first place in the Grand Prix final, and did so unexpectedly big advantage. Although the Canadians have more extensive experience of performing in the elite and loudly announced themselves back in the 2011/12 season with their unforgettable free dance Je sius malade, before the start of the season both duets were perceived more as equals. And at the Grand Prix stages, the Americans even had an absentee advantage.
In Seoul, Chok and Bates managed to take one round from their opponents: it was the students who won the short dance.
But in the free dance, the judges gave preference to Weaver and Poje, whose advantage was the result of higher premiums for the quality of execution of elements and slightly higher scores for components. Apparently, the spectacular Canadians have gained some advantage ahead of the World Cup. However, in Shanghai, Weaver and Poje will have to fight not only the Americans, but also the European contender - the French and.
In women's single skating at the Four Continents Tournament, a young American with Russian roots, Polina Edmund, won. And sports couples Predictably, the main favorites of this season, the Canadians and. True, the rental itself is the most difficult free program the latter turned out to be far from flawless.
Another significant event of the week in figure skating is not related to the Four Continents Tournament, but it cannot be ignored. At the tournament in Obersdorf, for the first time I tried to perform under competition conditions, unique for women. single skating jump - triple axel.
Apparently, the skater and her coach needed the start in Germany precisely as a testing ground: going out with a triple Axel for the first time right at the World Championships, taking into account the competition from other Russians, would be too risky. It is no coincidence that Tuktamysheva withdrew from the free program in Obersdorf.
The attempt was very close to success: the skater seemed to easily turn out the required number of revolutions, but stumbled on the way out and fell.
However, despite the failure, Elizabeth lost relatively little on this and other elements, scoring a respectable 66.75 points in her short program. Tuktamysheva suffered a three-point deduction for the quality of her axel performance, a penalty point for a fall, a minus for a blot on the cascade, and far from the most generous components of the program (the average score for none of them exceeded eight points).
Thus, the question of whether it is worth doing a triple axel at the World Championships will most likely remain open for now. 67 points in the short program will most likely not be enough to fight for first place with my friends from the Russian national team. On the other hand, during training in Obersdorf, this was not the first time that Tuktamysheva successfully performed this jump, and this time in a cascade with a double sheepskin coat.
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