World Juniors 2025 - Men FS

[Karen-W]

Nakata - 4t hand down & sliding out of it but not a fall; 4t+3t came back strong; 3a+1eu+3s good; 3a good; low landing on the 3z; 3f+2a okay-ish; 3lo good... Definitely a bit nervy today, but he held it together pretty well & came to win.

 

[Sarah]

Too much positive GOE for some of those jump landings…

 

[kwanfan1818]

If Nakata wasn't landing stuff, I would think he was a North American macho-genre skater with such perfunctory movement between jumps.

 

[Kateri]

There, he did a lutz!

You can see where he skinned his thumb on that first 4T mistake.

 

[Holy Headband]

Jump issues aside, Nakata is another overhyped Japanese junior who does nothing for me and listening to Ted cream himself over his workmanlike spins and stone-faced presentation annoys me to no end. I don't get what makes him any more special than, say, Yoshioka.

 

[PRlady]

Ouch!

I feel like a "groin mistake" could be taken multiple ways.

I so hate my autocorrect. AI made it stupider.

 

[Sally1214]

YAY for Rio! Excellent effort. That 1st stepout on the quad looked painful! But I have to say I'd loved pretty much everything else about that program.

 

[Holy Headband]

Criminal TES... Where is Shin Amano when you need him?!

 

[Kateri]

Don't think Minkyu has the base value to beat that, tbh

 

[tony]

Seo's coach HyungKyung Choi literally coaches just about everyone coming out of Korea. I'd love to see her skating. I know she qualified to the short in Minneapolis Worlds but she's among the 3 or 4 skaters that I don't think were broadcast at all.

 

[Former Lurve Goddess]

So will Rio dance to the top of the medal stand or will he Seo silver?

 

[Holy Headband]

Don't think Minkyu has the base value to beat that, tbh

With a clean program he would get Chanflated into first (deservedly), but that second 3A might have been fatal.

 

[tony]

With a clean program he would get Chanflated into first (deservedly), but that second 3A might have been fatal.

Patrick choreographs for him so that would be appropriate I suppose.

 

[Former Lurve Goddess]

With a clean program he would get Chanflated into first (deservedly), but that second 3A might have been fatal.

Maybe he emulated Chan far too much.

 

[tony]

To me, the PCS should be quite a bit higher here. Rio really does barge through most of his stuff in an almost hilarious 'masc bro, don't got time for this arm movement shit' way while this is a much, much more cohesive program and the choreography is certainly more complex and detailed.

But the TES won't be nearly enough regardless.

 

[Sarah]

That was so much more enjoyable. Such a shame about the fall.

 

[Karen-W]

Seo - 3a+3t good; 3a fall; 3lo really nice; 3f+2t good; 3z nice; 3f+2a+2a good; 3s good... Well, that will keep him on the podium. And give KOR 2 spots per JGP next season... Hopefully neither they nor SVK will use all of theirs and the US will pick up some extras.

 

[kwanfan1818]

Wow, Seo skated as if it was his music playing in the arena. If you're going to try to channel Gene Kelly, those small held smooth landings out of jumps were perfect grace notes.

 

[Kateri]

Those spins at the end were incredible, never mind the jumps.

 

[Holy Headband]

I'm so pressed because Nakata's jumps were less clean than Seo's today yet they both got glazed in GOEs, which precludes score differentiation on the basis of jump quality, and Seo won't be able to make up for that injustice in PCS either because Nakata's PCS was ALSO too high for some reason. **** this baka life.

 

[victorskid]

Free skate results:

1​	Rio NAKATA	JPN	162.95​	85.39​		77.56​	7.61​	7.75​	7.93​	0.00​	#23​
2​	Minkyu SEO	KOR	154.77​	77.15​		78.62​	7.75​	7.79​	8.07​	1.00​	#24​
3​	Adam HAGARA	SVK	153.04​	78.61​		74.43​	7.50​	7.46​	7.39​	0.00​	#20​
4​	Habin CHOI	KOR	150.06​	81.47​		69.59​	6.86​	6.86​	7.18​	1.00​	#19​
5​	Jacob SANCHEZ	USA	147.53​	71.17​		76.36​	7.57​	7.75​	7.61​	0.00​	#22​
6​	Arlet LEVANDI	EST	146.48​	73.22​		73.26​	7.25​	7.39​	7.36​	0.00​	#13​
7​	Genrikh GARTUNG	GER	144.57​	79.90​		65.67​	6.54​	6.50​	6.68​	1.00​	#17​
8​	Shunsuke NAKAMURA	JPN	144.40​	73.23​		72.17​	7.14​	7.21​	7.32​	1.00​	#21​
9​	Yanhao LI	NZL	142.89​	71.52​		71.37​	7.11​	7.11​	7.21​	0.00​	#15​
10​	Tamir KUPERMAN	ISR	141.32​	77.61​		64.71​	6.36​	6.50​	6.57​	1.00​	#8​
11​	Sena TAKAHASHI	JPN	139.60​	70.13​		69.47​	6.82​	6.93​	7.11​	0.00​	#18​
12​	Patrick BLACKWELL	USA	138.06​	72.99​		65.07​	6.43​	6.50​	6.61​	0.00​	#4​
13​	Jaekeun LEE	KOR	137.78​	69.38​		68.40​	6.79​	6.79​	6.96​	0.00​	#16​
14​	Casper JOHANSSON	SWE	129.76​	67.49​		63.27​	6.39​	6.25​	6.36​	1.00​	#7​
15​	David BONDAR	CAN	128.56​	69.15​		60.41​	6.11​	5.89​	6.14​	1.00​	#3​
16​	Anthony PARADIS	CAN	122.21​	54.84​		68.37​	6.93​	6.96​	6.64​	1.00​	#11​
17​	Tonghe TIAN	CHN	120.93​	56.09​		64.84​	6.36​	6.36​	6.75​	0.00​	#14​
18​	Jiarui LI	HKG	115.53​	55.16​		61.37​	6.04​	6.00​	6.39​	1.00​	#6​
19​	Gianni MOTILLA	FRA	112.28​	56.67​		56.61​	5.61​	5.57​	5.82​	1.00​	#2​
20​	Lukas VACLAVIK	SVK	108.10​	46.12​		61.98​	6.29​	5.93​	6.39​	0.00​	#10​
21​	Denis KROUGLOV	BEL	105.10​	53.35​		53.75​	5.39​	5.29​	5.46​	2.00​	#1​
22​	Ilia GOGITIDZE	FRA	98.75​	40.98​		57.77​	5.89​	5.82​	5.64​	0.00​	#5​
23​	Raffaele Francesco ZICH	ITA	97.46​	36.32​		61.14​	6.11​	5.79​	6.46​	0.00​	#12​
24​	Ean WEILER	SUI	89.79​	37.52​		56.27​	5.86​	5.18​	5.86​	4.00​	#9​

Protocols: https://results.isu.org/results/sea...OR----FNL-000100--_JudgesDetailsperSkater.pdf


Overall results:

1	Rio NAKATA	JPN	248.99	2	1
2	Minkyu SEO	KOR	241.45	1	2
3	Adam HAGARA	SVK	233.93	5	3
4	Jacob SANCHEZ	USA	230.41	3	5
5	Habin CHOI	KOR	227.28	6	4
6	Shunsuke NAKAMURA	JPN	225.69	4	8
7	Genrikh GARTUNG	GER	218.94	8	7
8	Arlet LEVANDI	EST	218.90	12	6
9	Sena TAKAHASHI	JPN	216.45	7	11
10	Yanhao LI	NZL	215.85	10	9
11	Jaekeun LEE	KOR	212.02	9	13
12	Tamir KUPERMAN	ISR	209.49	17	10
13	Patrick BLACKWELL	USA	200.06	21	12
14	Casper JOHANSSON	SWE	195.61	18	14
15	Tonghe TIAN	CHN	193.39	11	17
16	Anthony PARADIS	CAN	190.58	14	16
17	David BONDAR	CAN	190.29	22	15
18	Jiarui LI	HKG	179.40	19	18
19	Lukas VACLAVIK	SVK	176.36	15	20
20	Gianni MOTILLA	FRA	173.59	23	19
21	Raffaele Francesco ZICH	ITA	166.99	13	23
22	Denis KROUGLOV	BEL	166.41	24	21
23	Ilia GOGITIDZE	FRA	162.36	20	22
24	Ean WEILER	SUI	157.98	16	24

 

[PRlady]

It takes balls, pardon me, to try to skate to Gene Kelly at this young age so more power to him. Phooey for Jacob and for Tamir who I wanted to go top ten.

 

[tony]

So 8 of the top 12 were the same as last season, same 3 medalists albeit 1-2 switched.

 

[kwanfan1818]

Ted, STFU, it was not just that one element. His TES even with a +GOE 3A was too far behind, and Nakata was already over-scored on PCS.

 

[Aceon6]

13 men over 200. That was some skating.

 

[Spikefan]

Not mom, just a crazy uber. Calm down lady, he’s a junior.

 

[Holy Headband]

OK, seriously, this is the last time I'll while about it in this thread, but if the tech panel and judges had done their job the champion would be different. This is another jokerfying JWC for me after Mozalev won over Kagiyama (and yes, I know some people will argue that was fair... whatever, there was an absurdity to it that transcended the scoring system).

 

[Sally1214]

Once again, I am in total agreeent with the final placements. Looking at the top 13 skaters .... wow .... we saw some great skating from all of them. This jr. men's event was a fabulous event. Congrats to the medalists and to all the others who made today so enjoyable.

 

[Citlali]

Really happy I got to watch the last two groups live, great skating

 

[PRlady]

Well, Japan can get over last week’s disappointment in singles at 4Cs. Rio won and Mao will win unless she runs off with the Zamboni driver.