Chinese Skating News, Pt. 3: A long & winding road to Beijing 2022

[sammyf]

Yongchao Yang has paired up with a new partner Siyang Zhang, and they attended the Chinese Interclub competition today.

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very promising I have to say, Zhang has good skating skills and presentation skills

Thanks, do you have a link to the results? Or could you paste them if you need a login?

 

[Gris]

Thanks, do you have a link to the results? Or could you paste them if you need a login?

These are the results of the senior competition of the three interclub league events (held in virtual format this year). If you want to know any junior/novice skater's results, please let me know. You can also download the full results & protocols (in Chinese only, though) at this link.

First event

Men:

1. David Day 181.75 (In a previous post in this thread I wrote his name wrongly as Dawei Dai)
2. Wenbao Han 176.19
3. He Zhang 172.90
4. Kwun Hung Leung 139.37
5. Jian Gao 116.19
6. Wayne Wing Yin Chung 105.88
7. Yinbo Dong 101.56

Women:

1. Xiangyi An 166.54
2. Joanna So 147.81
3. Wandi Xu 142.18
4. Megan Wong 139.70
5. Mingyuan Wang 133.39
6. Ruotang Li 127.19
7. Wanyi Sun 119.52
8. Xinyi Xie 119.32
9. Xuanyu Liu 118.08
10. Yihan Wang 115.56
11. Yuhan Li 107.08
12. Lanxi Fu 106.70
13. Weitong Li 100.48
14. Chengle Wang 99.49
15. Kexin Zhang 94.93
16. Jiahe Tian 87.27

Pairs:

1. Wantong Zhao / Yuhang Liu 110.76

Dance:

1. Meihong Zhang / Bolin Meng 133.90
2. Zixuan Wang / Wenrun Fei 108.25
3. Jingping Zhou / Zhouhao Ji 97.23


Second event

Men:

1. Tonghe Tian 172.35
2. Pengrui Li 146.21
3. Zexuan Wang 138.84

Women:

1. Jiaxin Shi 151.30
2. Shiqi Gao 151.17
3. Yixuan Zhang 149.58
4. Xiaoyu Xia 125.82
5. Tong Mo 119.84
6. Shuxian Jin 118.00
7. Ruiqi Zhang 112.94
8. Yiyun Wen 111.03
9. Wenning Shi 103.85
10. Wenjie Sun 79.58

Pairs:

1. Yuchen Wang / Yihang Huang 181.13
2. Yihuan Niu / Haorui Hu 41.31

Dance:

1. Xizi Chen / Jianing Xing 146.09
2. Yufei Lin / Zijian Gao 132.22


Third event

Men:

1. Guangye Zhao 166.51
2. Qihan Zhao 165.41
3. Bofeng Wang 161.22
4. Harrison Jon-Yen Wong 153.70
5. Naoki Ma 136.66

Women:

1. Mengqi Zhang 153.78
2. Jiaying Cheng 149.07
3. Xuhan Zhou 149.00
4. Lanxin Meng 141.54
5. Guanru Jin 133.98
6. Ruiyang Zhang 128.76
7. Hiu Yau Chow 118.29
8. Yiwei Zou 110.64
9. Yuxuan Ding 105.71
10. Hoi Tik Rachel Yu 94.87
11. Siling Zhou 88.55
12. Shuhan Zhang 87.20

Pairs:

1. Siyang Zhang / Yongchao Yang 165.72

Dance:

1. Xinyi Yu / Tianyi Liu 119.02
2. Zixi Xiao / Yi Wang* 105.22

*Former singles skater who competed with his student in ice dance this time.

 

[sammyf]

These are the results of the senior competition of the three interclub league events (held in virtual format this year). If you want to know any junior/novice skater's results, please let me know. You can also download the full results & protocols (in Chinese only, though) at this link.

Thank you much, could you post junior pairs too?

 

[Gris]

Thank you much, could you post junior pairs too?

There's only one junior pair in the competition (in the first event).

Yixi Yang / Shunyuyao Deng 106.82

 

[Gris]

Interclub league Final (held in virtual format) just finished. Results from Senior competition & Junior pairs (for @sammyf ):

(You can download the full protocols in Chinese here)

Senior Men

1 He Zhang 185.98
2 Wenbao Han 173.15
3 Bofeng Wang 153.85
4 Pengrui Li 144.67
5 Guangye Zhao 132.86
WD Tonghe Tian

Senior Women

1 Xiangyi An 174.08
2 Yixuan Zhang 149.02
3 Jiaxin Shi 146.06
4 Shiqi Gao 145.28
5 Mengqi Zhang 139.36
6 Jiaying Cheng 126.84

Senior Pairs

1 Yuchen Wang / Yihang Huang 159.67 (Assigned to Nebelhorn for the 3rd Olympic spot at this moment)
2 Siyang Zhang / Yongchao Yang 144.84
3 Wantong Zhao / Yuhang Liu 93.64
4 Yihuan Niu / Haorui Hu 40.40

Senior Dance

1 Xizi Chen / Jianing Xing 136.79
2 Meihong Zhang / Bolin Meng 129.69
3 Yufei Lin / Zijian Gao 128.88
4 Xinyi Yu / Tianyi Liu 118.29
5 Zixi Xiao / Yi Wang 111.60
6 Zixuan Wang / Wenrun Fei 108.60

Junior Pairs

1 Yixi Yang / Shunyuyao Deng 105.29

 

[Sylvia]

Shiyue WANG / Xinyu LIU and Hong CHEN / Zhuoming SUN are listed in the ice dance event of this week's CS Autumn Classic International as of Sept. 1 but (this was posted today in the Challenger Series thrread):

Nothing official yet, but Wang / Liu is rumored to have withdrawn from ACI on Weibo. I assume the situation is the same for Chen / Sun.

They are believed to still be in Beijing at the national team training base - can anyone confirm?

 

[AxelAnnie]

Where are Sui/Han?

 

[Gris]

Results of the (virtual) National Grand Prix:

(If you need the Jr results of the other 3 disciplines, please let me know)

Sr Men

1 Tonghe Tian 179.23
2 He Zhang 170.99
3 Wenbao Han 166.46
4 Mei Geruiqi 162.59
5 Qiming Gong 155.59
6 Bofeng Wang 154.28
7 Liqin Yuan Lap Kan Yuen 152.08 (ETA: HKG sub for Nebelhorn)
8 Luanfeng Li 150.68
9 Kwun Hung Leung 148.21
10 Zexuan Wang 147.63
11 Zhile Yu 139.43
12 Zhibo Qu 135.28
13 Guangye Zhao 132.54
14 Naoki Ma 129.54
15 Juwen Xu 124.18
16 Yinbo Dong 115.53
17 Jian Gao 113.30
18 Wayne Wing Yin Chung 109.72

Sr Women

1 Xiangyi An 170.27
2 Yixuan Zhang 156.56
3 Megan Wong 146.00
4 Joanna So 144.51 (HKG entry for Nebelhorn)
5 Shiqi Gao 136.89
6 Lanxin Meng 135.38
7 Jiaying Cheng 133.72
8 Guanru Jin 132.85
9 Xinhui Feng 129.61
10 Xiaoyu Xia 125.85
11 Shuxian Jin 125.03
12 Ziyue Yang 124.99
13 Yuqiao Hou 120.75
14 Ruichen Tong 115.17
15 Cheuk Ka Kahlen Cheung 114.48 (HKG sub for Nebelhorn)
16 Hiu Yau Chow 113.3
17 Wenning Shi 106.49
18 Qingrun Chen 104.50
19 Chenchen Sha 100.64
20 Kexin Zhang 94.93
21 Hoi Tik Rachel Yu 87.15
22 Siling Zhou 83.03

Sr Pairs

1 Yixi Yang / Shunyuyao Deng 114.60
2 Huidi Wang / Ziqi Jia 107.94
3 Ruiyang Zhang / Mutong Liu 97.63
4 Jiaen Li / Zijian Wang 84.26
5 Youmei Sun / Ze'en Li 80.47

Jr Pairs

1 Ruiyang Zhang / Mutong Liu 99.49 (Did both Sr and Jr)

Sr Dance

1 Wanqi Ning / Chao Wang 157.25
2 Yuzhu Guo / Pengkun Zhao 150.23
3 Xizi Chen / Jianing Xing 149.25
4 Yufei Lin / Zijian Gao 132.65
5 Meihong Zhang / Bolin Meng 131.47
6 Xinyi Yu / Tianyi Liu 117.99
7 Zixuan Wang / Wenrun Fei 99.61
8 Jingping Zhou / Zhouhao Ji 94.14

 

[Gris]

Guo and Zhao have an interesting "Chinese style" rhythm dance choreographed by Xun Zheng.

Broadcasted version
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Music: Can't Get Your Love, Jazzy Grandma and Bailemen Swing by The Shanghai Restoration Project
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Also, Chao Wang said in a Weibo comment that Ning / Wang would skate at the Asian Open.

 

[Taso]

Guo and Zhao have an interesting "Chinese style" rhythm dance choreographed by Xun Zheng.

Broadcasted version
No commentary version

Music: Can't Get Your Love, Jazzy Grandma and Bailemen Swing by The Shanghai Restoration Project
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Also, Chao Wang said in a Weibo comment that Ning / Wang would skate at the Asian Open.

Classy!

 

[tony]

@Gris maybe you know this- I’ve seen Kexin Zhang on the results list a few times now, and wondered if it’s the same skater who was once top 10 in the World?

 

[Gris]

@Gris maybe you know this- I’ve seen Kexin Zhang on the results list a few times now, and wondered if it’s the same skater who was once top 10 in the World?

No, they're not the same person, just happen to have the same name. Sorry about the confusion - I should have clarified it earlier. I don't know about the younger Kexin much, but she was competing in Novice A last year.

(Kexin / 可欣 is quite a common name in China, for example, the gymnast Kexin He. And I just found out there's an Olympic freestyle skier named Kexin Zhang too )

 

[Marco]

Sr Women

4 Joanna So 144.51 (HKG entry for Nebelhorn)

Oh no. No Christy Leung.

 

[Gris]

Oh no. No Christy Leung.

Yeah... She was listed for this week's U.S. Classic a while ago but withdrew later.

Sr Men

7 Liqin Yuan 152.08

Sorry for the mistake as I didn't realize he is from Hong Kong earlier - his name should be written as Lap Kan Yuen and he's the HKG sub for Nebelhorn.

 

[oubik]

(If you need the Jr results of the other 3 disciplines, please let me know)

Yes, please all results are welcomed

 

[raruki]

Sr Pairs

1 Yixi Yang / Shunyuyao Deng 114.60
2 Huidi Wang / Ziqi Jia 107.94
3 Ruiyang Zhang / Mutong Liu 97.63
4 Jiaen Li / Zijian Wang 84.26
5 Youmei Sun / Ze'en Li 80.47

Jr Pairs

1 Ruiyang Zhang / Mutong Liu 99.49

What a Joke. Thank you Shen/Zhao, you ruined Chinese pairs skating completely.

 

[SamuraiK]

Thank you all for the results

while not a powerhouse CHN has depth and is A shame we can hardly see any of these skaters

 

[On My Own]

Thank you all for the results

while not a powerhouse CHN has depth and is A shame we can hardly see any of these skaters

Not just depth, they have actually nice skating with a lot of their skaters... I am not sure if they'll ever "rise" but I still enjoy watching a lot of them.

 

[Gris]

Yes, please all results are welcomed

Jr Men

1 Qiming Gong 148.08
2 Zhile Yu 128.40
3 Chiu Hei Cheung 123.72
4 Zhifei Wang 108.61
5 Yihan Ren 103.64
6 Zhehong Zhou 98.17
7 Haoze Yu 95.68
8 Zhongyi Wang 93.69

Jr Women

1 Megan Wong 146.95
2 Jiaxin Shi 141.84 (Higher FS score)
3 Ruiyang Zhang 141.84 (Also did pairs)
4 Mengqi Zhang 140.59
5 Tsz Ching Chan 138.99
6 Xuhan Zhou 135.57
7 Lanxi Fu 113.71
8 Mingyuan Wang 112.84
9 Peijia Wang 107.33
10 Chengle Wang 106.72
11 Yaxuan Zhu 106.70
12 Yixuan Ding 106.65
13 Jingyi Liang 105.77
14 Lingfei Meng 105.44
15 Jiaran Li 103.32
16 Shuyu Li 102.62
17 Jiabao Tang 98.66
18 Jinyao Han 96.21
19 Xueyin Ding 88.36
20 Jingzhu Wen 87.11

Jr Dance

1 Tong Liu / Quanshuo Ge 127.53
2 Xuantong Li / Xinkang Wang 122.01
3 Luchang Cao / Jianxu Chen 116.03
4 Yu Lu / Chenhang Zhang 103.64
5 Lichun Wang / Hongfei Shen 95.61
6 Xintong Qu / Suyang Li 94.24
7 Jiaying Wu / Xiang Liu 94.10
8 Xiaoxi Li / Yueyang Wang 93.66
9 Tianni Lin / Yuelin Wang 90.99
10 Munire Rahman / Abduwaris Mutellip* 86.25

(*Those two are from Xinjiang and I believe they're Uyghurs. I'm not entirely sure about the transliteration of their names - they're written as "穆妮热·罗合曼" and "阿卜杜瓦日斯·穆太力普" in simplified Chinese. If I'm wrong please correct me, thanks!)

 

[Gris]

Chinese skaters listed for Asian Open:

Yudong Chen, Boyang Jin

Hongyi Chen, Shan Lin, Yi Zhu

Cheng Peng / Yang Jin, Wenjing Sui / Cong Han, Yuchen Wang / Yihang Huang, Siyang Zhang / Yongchao Yang (new team, international debut)

Hong Chen / Zhuoming Sun, Shiyue Wang / Xinyu Liu

 

[Taso]

Chinese skaters listed for Asian Open:

Yudong Chen, Boyang Jin

Hongyi Chen, Shan Lin, Yi Zhu

Cheng Peng / Yang Jin, Wenjing Sui / Cong Han, Yuchen Wang / Yihang Huang, Siyang Zhang / Yongchao Yang (new team, international debut)

Hong Chen / Zhuoming Sun, Shiyue Wang / Xinyu Liu

Thank you Gris! I am sad not to see Han Yan

 

[Gris]

Thank you Gris! I am sad not to see Han Yan

So am I.

Also, Chao Wang said in a Weibo comment that Ning / Wang would skate at the Asian Open.

And they're not on the entry list.

 

[greenapple]

Once again Han Yan gets shafted.

 

[oubik]

10 Munire Rahman / Abduwaris Mutellip* 86.25

(*Those two are from Xinjiang and I believe they're Uyghurs. I'm not entirely sure about the transliteration of their names - they're written as "穆妮热·罗合曼" and "阿卜杜瓦日斯·穆太力普" in simplified Chinese. If I'm wrong please correct me, thanks!)

Thanks a lot Gris.

BTW - and I was looking for the very first arabian ice dance team in a history . Was wrong.

 

[Gris]

Programs of Chinese skaters listed for Asian Open, all from their updated ISU bios

Cheng Peng / Yang Jin

SP: Piano & I: Moonlight Sonata by L. v. Beethoven, perf. by Alicia Keys
No One by Alicia Keys - Alicia Keys

FS: Exile To Snowy West from The Banquet soundtrack by Tan Dun
Only For Love from The Banquet soundtrack by Tan Dun
Sword Dance from The Banquet soundtrack by Tan Dun

Wenjing Sui / Cong Han

SP: Mission Impossible 2 Orchestra Suite: Part 2 by Hans Zimmer
FS: Bridge Over Troubled Water by John Legend, Paul Simon

Siyang Zhang / Yongchao Yang

SP: Stayin Alive by Bee Gees
You Should Be Dancing by Bee Gees
FS: Les Miserables (soundtrack) by Claude-Michel Schoenberg

Yudong Chen

SP: Yearning For The Peace (Hero Soundtrack) by Tan Dun
Swift Sword (Hero Soundtrack) by Itzhak Perlman
FS: The Family Desgoffe Und Taxis (The Grand Budapest Hotel soundtrack) by Alexandre Desplat
Last will & Testament (The Grand Budapest Hotel soundtrack) by Alexandre Desplat
Canto at Gabelmeister's Peak (The Grand Budapest Hotel soundtrack) by Alexandre Desplat
Traditional arrangement Moonshine (The Grand Budapest Hotel soundtrack) by Alexandre Desplat

Boyang Jin

SP: Night Fight (from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ost) by Tan Dun
Eternal Vow (from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ost) by Tan Dun
FS: Invocacion y Danza by Joaquin Rodrigo, performed by Milos Karadaglic
Bolero by Maurice Ravel

Zhiming Peng

SP: Surrounded On All Sides by Cong Zhao, Lay
FS: Los Muertos Vivos Estan (Spectre soundtrack) by Thomas Newman
Writing's On the Wall (Spectre soundtrack) by Sam Smith
Westminster Bridge (Spectre soundtrack) by Thomas Newman
Detonation (Spectre soundtrack) by Thomas Newman

Hengxin Jin

SP: Fisherman's Harvest Song by Zhuonan Jin, Shuhua Lou, perforned by Chris Babida
FS: Pocahontas (Pocahontas soundtrack) by Alan Menken
Colors of the Wind(Pocahontas soundtrack) by Alan Menken
Farewell (Pocahontas soundtrack) by Alan Menken

Yi Zhu

SP: Paint it Black by Peter Scholes, perf. by London Symphony Orchestra
FS: Sunset Boulevard by Andrew Lloyd Webber

Hong Chen / Zhuoming Sun

RD: Blues: More by Alex Vargas
Hip Hop: More (RedOne Jimmy Joker Remix) by Usher Raymond
FD: All I Ask Of You (from Phantom Of The Opera) by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Overture by Richard Stilgoe

Shiyue Wang / Xinyu Liu

RD: Blue: Trouble by Elvis Presley, Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller
Hip Hop: Blue Suede Shoes by Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins
FD: Kung Fu Piano: Cello Ascends performed by The Piano Guys

Reposting my post in the Programs thread here

 

[Jeschke]

So no mention of Han Yan seals the deal?

 

[skatingguy]

So no mention of Han Yan seals the deal?

Sadly the results of World last year sealed the deal.

 

[Gris]

So no mention of Han Yan seals the deal?

Han Yan posted a Weibo today and the text initially said:

"I'm still young and the possibilities are limitless. Stay in good spirits and keep the passion for figure skating. Never forget where I started and be myself. Would rather be a jade broken than a tile intact."

He later edited that post and the last sentence is now gone and now I'm speculating...

 

[Marco]

Han Yan posted a Weibo today and the text initially said:

"I'm still young and the possibilities are limitless. Stay in good spirits and keep the passion for figure skating. Never forget where I started and be myself. Would rather be a jade broken than a tile intact."

He later edited that post and the last sentence is now gone and now I'm speculating...

That's the spirit. Sounds like he will fight til the end even tho he already knows.

 

[Vash01]

I like Sui/Han's choice of music, esp. the LP.