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Lee Hae-in performs throughout the ladies’s singles free skating title on the eightieth Nationwide Determine Skating Championships and the second nationwide group choice trial in Seoul, Jan. 4. Yonhap
Determine skater Lee Hae-in posted her greatest brief program rating of the season in China on Thursday at her remaining occasion earlier than her Olympic debut.
Lee earned 67.06 factors within the brief program on the Worldwide Skating Union (ISU) 4 Continents Determine Skating Championships on the Nationwide Indoor Stadium in Beijing.
Three Japanese skaters occupied the highest three spots, with Ami Nakai main the way in which at 73.83 factors, adopted by Yuna Aoki with 71.41 factors and Mone Chiba with 68.07 factors.
The 4 Continents championships are for non-European skaters, with these from Asia, North America, South America, Africa and Oceania eligible.
That is the ultimate worldwide competitors for Lee earlier than she takes the ice on the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics subsequent month. Lee received the 4 Continents title in 2023 and received silver in 2022.
Lee completed second within the nationwide Olympic trials earlier this month, behind Shin Ji-a. In Thursday’s occasion, Lee was docked factors for underrotating her touchdown of a triple toe loop and later a triple flip.
Shin solely managed her season-worst 53.97 factors Thursday, as she fell twice — first on a gap triple ltuz and afterward a triple flip. She is in 14th place in her 4 Continents debut.
Yun Ah-sun, the third Korean in motion, ranked fifteenth with 51.71 factors.
The ladies’s free skate is scheduled for Friday.
The lads’s singles competitors will start Saturday with the brief program, adopted by the free skate Sunday.
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