"First Olympics in her life" Shin Ji-ah ranked 4th in women's singles short in team event... "7th place" in Korea's middle ranking

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Shin Ji-ah (18, Sehwa Girls' High School), the star of Korean figure skating women's singles, ranked fourth in the short program of the team event, her first Olympic stage.

Shin Ji-ah participated in the women's single short program at the '2026 Milan·Cortina D'Ampezzo Winter Olympics' figure skating team event held at the Milan Ice Skating Arena in Italy on the 6th (Korea time) and received a total score of 68.80 points, including 37.93 points for technical points (TES) and 30.87 points for art points (PCS).

This is less than 5.67 points, which is the highest score in the individual short program of 74.47 points set at the International Skating Union (ISU) Challenger Series Nebelhorn Trophy in September last year. Shin ranked fourth among the 10 players, giving South Korea seven points.

Shin Ji-ah, who chose Chopin's "Night Song No. 20" as the background music, performed her first task, the triple lutz-triple toe loop combination jump, earning a basic score of 10.10 and a performance score of 1.10 (GOE). He also performed the double axel jump and flying camel spin (level 4) stably.

The triple flip jump, which was placed in the second half of the performance with an additional 10% point, also landed cleanly and earned 0.68 points in GOE. Later, he recorded level 4 in the change foot combination spin, but finished performing with level 3 in the step sequence and rayback spin.

Japan's Kaori Sakamoto, who received 78.88 points, came in first, followed by Alyssa Liu (74.90 points) of the United States and Lara Naaki Gutman (71.62 points) of Italy, who came in second and third, respectively.

In the ice dance rhythm dance held earlier, Im Hae-na and Kwon Ye-jo ranked seventh (4 points), and Shin Ji-ah added 4th (7 points), ranking seventh with a median total of 11 points. The fact that they did not get points in the event because there were no players in the pair event contributed to the decline in the ranking.

Currently, the middle leader of the team event is the U.S., with 25 points, followed by Japan (23 points) and Italy (22 points). Georgia is ranked fourth with 20 points, Canada is ranked fifth with 19 points, and France is ranked sixth with 17 points.

In the Olympic figure skating team event, the scores of short program (rhythmic dance) in four events, including men's and women's singles, pairs, and ice dance, will be added, and only the top five countries will advance to free skating (free dance) to compete for medals. Korea, which is currently in fifth place with an eight-point gap with Canada, is not easy to advance on its own.

Korea's next runner is Cha Jun-hwan (Seoul Metropolitan Government) of the men's singles, who will compete in the men's singles short program on the 8th and aim to rebound in the last ranking.

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