Yuzuru Hanyu has glided his manner into immortality.
The Japanese skater efficiently repeated as Olympic males’s determine skating champion, claiming the gold medal Saturday morning in PyeongChang, South Korea, on the 2018 Winter Olympics. He scored 317.85 complete factors, topping silver medalist and compatriot Shoma Uno, bronze medalist Javier Fernandez of Spain and the remainder of the sphere.
Yuzuru Hanyu earns gold!
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Hanyu turns into the primary man to repeat as Olympic champion since the US’ Dick Button in 1948 and 1952. Austria’s Karl Schafer beforehand was a back-to-back gold medalist in 1932 and 1936. Sweden’s Karl Schafer is the one males’s determine skater to win three consecutive Olympic golds, doing so in 1920, 1924 and 1928.
“That is the perfect day of my skating life,” Hanyu mentioned after the competitors, per NBCOlympics.com. “My tears had been from my coronary heart. I can discover one phrase and that’s completely satisfied.”
All three U.S. skaters completed within the prime 10, with Adam Rippon coming in tenth, Vincent Zhou taking sixth and Nathan Chen inserting fifth after a stirring rally from seventeenth place after the quick program.