The ISU Figure Skating World Cup team competition will be held in Osaka, Japan from April 15-18. The U.S. Figure Skating Association has officially announced the U.S. team’s entry. Among them, Karen Chen of Chinese descent from San Francisco Bay Area will participate in the women’s single skating competition. Nathan Chen, a Chinese-American, will compete in the men’s single skating event.
The event features six of the best national teams in figure skating for the 2020-2021 season. These include the United States, Canada, France, Italy, Japan, and the Russian team, which is competing as an independent athlete.
Each team consists of two women’s singles skaters, two men’s singles skaters, a pair of pairs skaters, and a pair of ice dancers. In the women’s single skating, men’s single skating and pairs skating, each pair will be ranked according to the total score of the short program and free skating. Each pair of ice dancers will be ranked according to the total score of the rhythmic dance and free dance. The competitors will be converted into points based on their respective rankings. The national team with the highest point total will win the event.
The U.S. National Team’s lineup is as follows.
Women’s Singles: Kaiwen Chen, Bradie Tennell.
Men’s singles skating: Chen Wei, Jason Brown.
Pair skating: Alexa Knierim/Brandon Frazier.
Ice dance: Kaitlin Hawayek/Jean-Luc Baker.
In the three major competitions that have already taken place in the 2020-2021 season, Kaiwen Chen and Wei Chen have both played well.
At the World Skating Championships in Stockholm, Sweden, on March 28, Chen placed fourth in the women’s singles skating with 208.63 points, matching her highest finish at the 2017 World Championships in Helsinki, Finland, and earning the U.S. team 2.5 spots in the women’s singles skating event at the 2022 Beijing Olympic Winter Games. Chen Wei scored 320.88 points for his free skate performance of five four-week jumps, becoming the first skater in the past 20 years to win a third consecutive men’s singles title at the World Championships.
At the National Skating Championships in Las Vegas on January 18, Chen Kaiwen won the bronze medal in the women’s single skating with 214.98 points. Chen Wei won his fifth consecutive men’s singles title with 322.28 points.
Chen Kaiwen ranked fourth in the women’s singles skating with 204.90 points at the ISU Grand Prix of Skating (USA) in Las Vegas on Oct. 25, 2010. Chen Wei won his fourth consecutive men’s singles title with 299.15 points.
Chen Wei has already won three gold medals in men’s single skating for the U.S. team at the World Figure Skating Championships.
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