2026 Junior Worlds - Men SP

[Sally1214]

Well, I guess Konstantin did as well as he could but those spins are really slow. On the bright side, I LOVE that song by Gavin DeGraw ... so a couple of points for music choice.

 

[Sally1214]

Awww .... it breaks my heart to see Artur in tears. WHY do those errors have to happen when it counts the very most?

 

[JoannaLouise]

Scratchy landings on both the 3lo and the combo for David Bondar, but his 3a was great! It's nice to see the 3a becoming a relatively consistent jump for him, since it has been like kryptonite for so many of our Canadian guys.

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

Were they just playing Give me a Man after midnight by ABBA during the men’s junior short program after Dave? Lol

 

[Wyliefan]

Love that program for Li, and he skates it with such spirit.

 

[JoannaLouise]

Jiarui Li has so much flair and personality!

 

[Sally1214]

I don't follow the junior skaters like a lot of you do, so I've just discovered a new male singles skater to keep my eye on! Unfortunate fall on the combo aside, that was some HIGH QUALITY skating from Jiarui Li. WOW ... this kid could go somewhere!

 

[Wyliefan]

Gold sparkles under a sloppy untucked white shirt is a choice.

 

[Wyliefan]

Great skate from Ebihara! If I were a skater, I would absolutely skate to "Masquerade Waltz." Gorgeous piece of music.

 

[JoannaLouise]

Ebihara maintained so much speed and flow through his step sequence; most skaters really slow down and make it look like hard work, but for him it looked effortless.

 

[Wyliefan]

Lindfors appears to have rolled around in some autumn leaves in his pajamas.

 

[Sally1214]

Daiya E. ..... just W-O-W!! Massive score and so well deserved. Is there no end to the talent coming out of Japan?? Not that I'm complaining at all .... I'm just totally amazed about how they just keep on coming.

 

[Allen]

Were they just playing Give me a Man after midnight by ABBA during the men’s junior short program after Dave? Lol

Not as bad as that french junior ice dance team that skated to George Michael's Father Figure

 

[JoannaLouise]

Linfors has the best costume!

And the best program, I love all the quirky choreographic moves. He's not afraid to be a little bit weird.

 

[Karen-W]

Linfors has the best costume!

This costume hurts my eyes. I've been trying to wake up and this one did the trick. Which is NOT a compliment, lol.

 

[Wyliefan]

Japan is bringing it today! Way to go Nishino!

 

[Karen-W]

There is something about Nishino that has echoes of Daisuke Takahashi in his personality & presentation style.

 

[victorskid]

Third ice resurfacing underway before the final 2 of 8 groups.

The SP results so far:
1 Q Daiya EBIHARA JPN 81.53 44.61 36.92 7.36 7.32 7.43 0.00 #29
2 Q Taiga NISHINO JPN 81.14 43.99 37.15 7.39 7.54 7.32 0.00 #31
3 Q Lucius KAZANECKI USA 74.89 41.53 33.36 6.68 6.61 6.68 0.00 #23
4 Q Yu-Hsiang LI TPE 71.06 39.52 31.54 6.21 6.29 6.39 0.00 #16
5 Q David BONDAR CAN 69.09 38.01 31.08 6.29 6.07 6.25 0.00 #26
6 Q Matias LINDFORS FIN 66.70 31.86 34.84 7.14 7.04 6.68 0.00 #30
7 Q Matvii YEFYMENKO POL 62.89 33.90 28.99 5.68 5.75 5.93 0.00 #22
8 Q Jiarui LI HKG 62.38 31.24 32.14 6.54 6.39 6.32 1.00 #27
9 Q Hiro KAEWTATHIP THA 61.93 31.64 30.29 6.14 6.04 5.96 0.00 #20
10 Q Konstantin SUPATASHVILI GEO 61.62 32.58 29.04 5.68 5.75 5.96 0.00 #24
11 Q Qihan ZHAO CHN 61.55 33.20 29.35 5.82 5.86 5.89 1.00 #5
12 Q Albin SAMUELSSON SWE 60.93 31.63 29.30 5.86 5.89 5.79 0.00 #12
13 Leon ROJKOV GER 60.68 33.12 27.56 5.43 5.43 5.64 0.00 #4
14 Matteo MARCHIONI ITA 60.16 31.23 28.93 5.75 5.71 5.86 0.00 #13
15 Luka IMEDASHVILI LTU 59.77 30.37 29.40 5.89 6.07 5.64 0.00 #19
16 Janis ZNOTINS LAT 57.68 28.50 29.18 5.86 5.82 5.79 0.00 #8
17 Maksym PETRYCHENKO AUT 55.66 25.96 30.70 6.14 6.14 6.11 1.00 #28
18 Arin YORKE GBR 54.51 27.41 28.10 5.68 5.43 5.71 1.00 #14
19 Vladislav CHURAKOV EST 54.47 25.34 30.13 6.04 6.11 5.89 1.00 #10
20 Mikayel SALAZARYAN ARM 54.05 29.11 24.94 4.86 4.89 5.18 0.00 #3
21 Daniil VALANOV NOR 53.95 27.21 27.74 5.54 5.39 5.68 1.00 #15
22 Dmitry RUDENKO SVK 52.96 26.55 26.41 5.32 5.21 5.29 0.00 #7
23 Tadeas VACLAVIK CZE 52.73 26.13 26.60 5.32 5.18 5.43 0.00 #21
24 Andre ZAPATA ESP 52.55 24.10 28.45 5.64 5.71 5.68 0.00 #6
25 Artur SMAGULOV KAZ 51.76 22.24 30.52 6.14 6.00 6.14 1.00 #25
26 Deyan MIHAYLOV BUL 51.72 24.98 27.74 5.57 5.43 5.61 1.00 #17
27 Furkan Emre INCEL TUR 50.66 23.04 27.62 5.61 5.39 5.54 0.00 #18
28 Ilya NESTEROV EST 47.90 25.21 23.69 4.86 4.61 4.71 1.00 #1
29 Jean MEDARD FRA 46.10 18.60 28.50 5.71 5.71 5.64 1.00 #11
30 Aleksei VLASENKO HUN 45.93 20.69 25.24 5.18 4.86 5.07 0.00 #9
31 Julio POTAPENKO AUS 40.37 16.99 24.38 4.93 4.71 4.96 1.00 #2

 

[Sally1214]

Taiga! I just could NOT get the smile off my face during that entire performance. All the elements looked SWISH and his face was just radiating, "I'm having so much fun right now." LOVED it.

 

[MsZem]

I still don't understand Ean Weiler's costume.

 

[Lizziebeth]

I still don't understand Ean Weiler's costume.

why does it need only one sleeve???

 

[Elisheba]

why does it need only one sleeve???

inflation is real and he could only afford the one?

 

[Wyliefan]

New PB for Weiler by nearly 4 1/2 points!

 

[Sally1214]

Strong skate by Yehor. Good for him. And, I just love Disturbed's version of "Sound of Silence," so, once again, I'm awarding a couple extra points for music selection.

 

[my little pony]

this version of sound of silence will always bug me

 

[JoannaLouise]

Jaekeun Lee is another skater who covers the ice effortlessly; he has beautiful flow.

 

[Karen-W]

That TES is generous for Lee compared to what we've seen from the three guys at the top right now. Jumps were all a little tight, IMO.

ETA - TES dropped just over a point on review, but still too high.

 

[Wyliefan]

Now this Vaclavik ran his shirt through the shredder.

 

[TAHbKA]

Do we have someone on the rink? How huge is Vaclavik's 3a? On the screen it seemed he went 2m up.

I have never seen him really skate - in the JPGF where I was he had a great SP and then his boot broke and the first time he was skating on the new one was the 6mins warm up, so he failed all of his jumps (duuuuh)

 

[Karen-W]

Oh, this is a really rough skate for Elder Vaclavik. Neither brother will make the FS.