Yuzuru Hanyu scored 283.21 points in the figure skating free skate competition at the Beijing Winter Olympics, ranking fourth.
Japanese star Yuzuru Hanyu fell when he challenged Axel’s quadruple jump in the free skate and ended his third Winter Olympics with fourth place in men’s singles. Chinese star Jin Boyang's free skating performance was his best of the season and he finished ninth. The championship belongs to American player Chen Wei.
As he ranked eighth in the short program, Hanyu made his 17th appearance that day. As the music of "Heaven and Earth" played, his first jump was to challenge the unprecedented Axel quadruple jump. . Soaring and spinning, unfortunately due to insufficient number of turns, he fell down on the ice. After that, he also made a mistake in his quadruple jump inside the back knot. For Yuzuru Hanyu, who aims to win three consecutive Winter Olympics titles, the difficulty of winning has increased sharply, and the initiative has been handed over to his opponents.
Yuzuru Hanyu’s award-winning experience in the Olympic Games:
In February 2014, Yuzuru Hanyu, who was only 19 years old, won the Sochi Winter Olympics championship and became Asia’s first Winter Olympics champion. In March, he won the World Figure Skating Championship, achieving the Grand Slam of the Olympic Games, World Championships, and Grand Prix Finals. In 2016, he won the World Figure Skating Grand Prix Finals and achieved four consecutive Grand Prix titles.
In April 2017, he once again won the World Figure Skating Championships. In February 2018, he won the men's singles figure skating championship at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, becoming the first figure skater to win the men's singles championship at the Winter Olympics in 66 years.
Yuzuru Hanyu has broken the world record 19 times. He is the first person to complete the quadruple jump in an international competition recognized by the International Skating Union (ISU); he is also the first person in the history of figure skating to sweep the Olympic Games. He is the first person to win the Super Grand Slam in men's singles events in international competitions such as the World Championships, Grand Prix Finals, Four Continents Championships, World Youth Championships, and Youth Group Finals.
On April 28, 2018, Yuzuru Hanyu received the Purple Belt Medal of the "Order of Spring" from the Japanese government; on June 1, the Japanese government decided to award the defending Winter Olympics champion figure skater Yuzuru Hanyu the National Medal. Honorable Mention; In December, he was named one of the top ten international athletes in 2018 by the Xinhua News Agency Sports Department.