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Thanks for posting this. I always find it interesting to see so many names of medalists whom I have never heard of, or seen on the international stage.
Spain [From International Figure Skating magazine via Facebook]:
The 2018 Spanish Olympic team has been announced. Javier Fernández, Felipe Montoya and Sara Hurtado and Kirill Khalyavin are heading to PyeongChang.
"Fernández, who will go to his third Games, this afternoon won, for the seventh time in a row, the men's title with a score of 288.30. Javier Raya was second (213.72) and Montoya (210.95), third.
Montoya got the Olympic spot because his accumulated score from the Championships and Golden Spin was higher than that of Raya.
In ice dance, Olivia Smart and Adriá Díaz won the event (167.77), silver went to Hurtado and Khalyavin (164.54), and bronze to Celia Robledo and Luis Fenero (146.43).
By technical decision of the Spanish Federation of Ice Sports (FEDH), Hurtado and Khalyavin (who earned the most points at nationals and Golden Spin combined, which was the deciding criteria) will compete at Europeans and the Olympic Games, while Smart and Diaz will compete at Worlds. It is a measure to reward the equal and excellent level of both duos, as well as to try to maximize their options in order to get places for the Grand Prix next year."
The French Olympic committee just released its first list of entries for PyeongChang. In figure skating : James-Cipres (Pairs), Besseghier (Men) and Papadakis-Cizeron (Ice Dance). Still to be named 1 entry for Ladies and Ice Dance (after Europeans)
Men FINAL - GOLD Mikhail Kolyada 281.16; SILVER Alexander Samarin; 258.53 BRONZE Dmitri Aliev 249.11
Ice Dance FINAL - Gold Ekaterina BOBROVA / Dmitri SOLOVIEV 193.08; Silver Alexandra STEPANOVA / Ivan BUKIN 188.28; Bronze Tiffani ZAGORSKI / Jonathan GUERREIRO 175.78 [Sinitsina/Katsalapov who were 4th in SD did not finish the competition, withdrawing about 2/3 of the way through the FD]
Pairs FINAL - Gold Evgenia TARASOVA / Vladimir MOROZOV 223.34; Silver Ksenia STOLBOVA / Fedor KLIMOV 215.55; Bronze Natalia ZABIIAKO / Alexander ENBERT 207.51
Pairs FINAL - Gold Kana MURAMOTO/Chris Reed 166.45; Silver Misato KOMATSUBARA/Timothy Koleto 149.47; Bronze Rikako FUKASE/Aru TATENO 130.27
Men FINAL** - Gold Shoma UNO 283.30; Silver Keiji TANAKA 267.15; Bronze Takahito MURA 258.41
** withough Yuzuru Hanyu who is still recovering from an injury
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There will be no "Russian" entries in the Olympics but there will be "Olympic Athletes from Russia" as invited by the International Olympic Committee. Russia will be hosting the European Championships in January and their team for that appears in the thread about that competition.
Some more results from the Korean national championships:
Korean Nationals Ladies Top 10 FINAL
GOLD Young You 204.68
SILVER Dabin Choi 190.12
BRONZE Eunsoon Lim 185.88
4 Hanul Kim 176.92
5 Soyoun Park 176.57
6 Yelim Kim 176.02
7 Ji Hun To 172.11
8 Yujin Choi 166.34
9 Haein Lee 165.24
10 Hyunsoo Lee 162.98
Korean Nationals Men FINAL
GOLD Jun Hwan Cha 252.65
SILVER Jinseo Kim 227.23
BRONZE June Hyoung Lee 222.98
4 Sihyeong Lee 208.49
5 Younghyun Cha 195.42
6 Sejong Byun 191.27
7 Geonhyeong An 184.00
8 Sunghoon Park 166.99
9 Jaeseok Kyeong 164.20
Korean Nationals FINAL
Pairs: GOLD Kyueun Kim/Kangchan Kam 139.54
Dance: GOLD Yura Min/Alexander Gamelin 149.94
