Nathan Chen

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Nathan Chen
File:Nathan Chen at the 2014 U.S. Figure Skating Championships (photo by Leah Adams).jpg
Chen at the 2014 US Championships
Personal information
Country represented United States
Born (1999-05-05) May 5, 1999 (age 25)
Salt Lake City, Utah
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Coach Rafael Arutyunyan
Nadezda Kanaeva
Vera Arutyunyan
Former coach Evgenia Chernyshova
Stephanie Grosscup
Karel Kovar
Choreographer Nadezda Kanaeva
Nikolai Morozov
Former choreographer Phillip Mills
Stephanie Grosscup
Genia Chernyshova
Skating club Salt Lake Figure Skating
Training locations Artesia, California
Former training locations Salt Lake City, Utah
Lake Arrowhead, California
Began skating 2002
ISU personal best scores
Combined total 236.76
2015 JGP United States
Short program 78.59
2015 JGP Final
Free skate 159.63
2015 JGP United States
Medal record
Representing  United States
Figure skating: Men's singles
World Junior Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Sofia Men's singles
Junior Grand Prix Final
Gold medal – first place 2015–16 Barcelona Men's singles
Bronze medal – third place 2013–14 Fukuoka Men's singles

Nathan Chen (born May 5, 1999) is an American figure skater. He is the 2015 JGP Final champion, the 2014 World Junior bronze medalist and 2014 U.S. Junior champion.

Personal life

Nathan Chen was born in Salt Lake City, Utah.[1] He attended West High School (Utah) in Salt Lake City and Rim of the World High School in Lake Arrowhead, California before enrolling at Capistrano Connections Academy, an online high school, in August 2013 as a sophomore.[2] In addition to figure skating, Chen trained in ballet with Ballet West Academy[3] as well as competing in gymnastics at the State and Regional levels for seven years.

Skating career

Early years

Nathan Chen started figure skating at age three and entered his first skating competition in 2003. From 2007-2009, Chen qualified to compete in the U.S. Junior Nationals at the juvenile and intermediate levels. He placed 10th and 3rd in juveniles at the 2007 and 2008 Junior Nationals. At the 2009 Junior Nationals, he won the intermediate men's silver medal.

Chen advanced to the novice level in the 2009–10 season. He won the national novice title at the 2010 U.S. Championships[4] in Spokane, Washington, and became the youngest novice champion in the history of U.S. Figure Skating at age 10.[5] Due to his young age, Chen opted to remain at the novice level for the 2010–11 season and he defended his novice title at the 2011 U.S. Championships in Greensboro, North Carolina.[6][7]

For the 2011–12 season, Chen moved up to the junior level in national competitions. He was coached by Genia Chernyshova and also traveled to Lake Arrowhead, California to work with jump specialist Rafael Arutyunyan.[8] Arutyunyan became his main coach in mid-December 2011.[9] Chen won the junior men's title at the 2012 U.S. Championships in San Jose, California on January 24, 2012.[10] Chen's first international competition was the 2012 Gardena Spring Trophy in Selva Val Gardena, Italy, where he won the novice men's event.[11][12]

2012–13 season

In 2012–13, Chen stayed at the junior level nationally, and became age-eligible (13 years old) to compete in the ISU Junior Grand Prix series.[10] Chen's first assignment was the 2012 JGP Austria in Linz from September 12–16, 2012.[13] In his JGP debut in Linz, Chen won the gold medal with the highest score of 222.00 ever awarded to date in the ISU Junior Grand Prix series.[14] Chen withdrew from his second event, JGP Croatia, in early October 2012 after the short program due to a lower leg injury and thus did not qualify for the JGP Final.[15] Chen won the junior men's bronze medal at the 2013 U.S. Championships in Omaha, Nebraska, on January 22, 2013.[16]

2013–14 season

In 2013–14, Chen started his season at the ISU Junior Grand Prix in Mexico in September 2013 and won the gold medal. He then won a second JGP gold medal of the season at ISU Junior Grand Prix in Belarus and qualified for the ISU Junior Grand Prix Final in Fukuoka, Japan, where he won the bronze medal. On January 9, 2014 Chen broke a six-year U.S. junior men's record of 213.76 at the 2014 U.S. Championships in Boston, Massachusetts, en route to his second U.S. junior title.[17] His final combination spin in the short program received 4.86 points, the highest among active male skaters in the world.[18] Chen was awarded the bronze medal at the 2014 World Junior Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria in March 2014.[19] The results of Chen and teammates Jordan Moeller and Shotaro Omori gained three entries for the United States to the 2015 World Junior Championships.

2014–15 season

Chen moved up to senior competitions in the 2014-15 season. At the Pacific Sectional Championships in November 2014, he landed a clean quadruple toe loop and double toe loop combination (4T+2T) in his free skate,[20] winning the senior men's division, and advanced to the 2015 U.S. Championships in Greensboro, NC. Unfortunately Chen developed a growth-related heel injury one week before the national championships.[21] He competed scaled-back versions of his short and long programs on pain medications and placed eighth overall in his senior national championship debut from January 17–25, 2015. After the competition, Chen was named in the U.S. team to the 2015 World Junior Championships.[22] He finished 4th at the event in Tallinn, Estonia on March 8, 2015.

2015–16 season

Chen won gold at both his assignments on the 2015–16 ISU Junior Grand Prix in Colorado Springs, Colorado and Logroño, Spain. He then went on to win the gold medal at the 2015–16 Junior Grand Prix Final.[23]

Programs

Season Short program Free skating Exhibition
2015–2016
[1][24]
2014–2015
[25]
  • Smile
    (based on Modern Times theme)
    performed by Michael Jackson
  • Smooth Criminal
    by Michael Jackson
    choreo. by Nadezda Kanaeva
2013–2014
[26]
2012–2013
[27]
2011–2012
[28]
2010–2011
[28]
  • Rawhide
    choreo. by Genia Chernyshova
  • Rawhide
    choreo. by Genia Chernyshova
2009–2010
[28]
  • Peter and the Wolf
    by Sergei Prokofiev
    choreo. by Genia Chernyshova

Competitive highlights

File:Medalists of 2015 JGPF - Nathan Chen, Dmitri Aliev, Sato Yamamoto (photo by Susan D. Russell).jpg
Medalists of 2015 ISU Junior Grand Prix Final - Nathan Chen (center), Dmitri Aliev and Sato Yamamoto.
International[29]
Event 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16
Junior Worlds 3rd 4th
JGP Final 3rd 1st
JGP Austria 1st
JGP Belarus 1st
JGP Croatia WD 2nd
JGP Mexico 1st
JGP Spain 1st
JGP USA 1st
Gardena 1st N.
National[28]
U.S. Champ. 1st N. 1st N. 1st J. 3rd. J. 1st J. 8th
Levels: N. = Novice; J. = Junior
JGP = Junior Grand Prix, TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew

Detailed results

(Small medals for short and free programs awarded only at ISU Championships – Worlds, Four Continents, and Junior Worlds.)

2015–16 season
Date Event Level SP FS Total Ref
Dec. 9-Dec. 13, 2015 2015 JGP Final Junior 1
78.59		 1
146.45		 1
225.04		 [30]
Sept. 30-Oct. 3, 2015 JGP Spain 2015 Junior 1
77.94		 2
158.43		 1
236.37		 [31]
Sept. 2-5, 2015 JGP United States 2015 Junior 1
77.13		 1
159.63		 1
236.76		 [32]
2014–15 season
Date Event Level SP FS Total Ref
Mar. 2-8, 2015 2015 World Junior Championships Junior 9
69.87		 4
143.98		 4
213.85		 [33]
Jan. 17-25, 2015 2015 U.S. Championships Senior 8
76.20		 8
154.79		 8
230.99		 [34]
Oct. 9–10, 2014 JGP Croatia 2014 Junior 2
72.57		 2
135.59		 2
208.16		 [35]
2013–14 season
Date Event Level SP FS Total Ref
Mar. 10-16, 2014 2014 World Junior Championships Junior 6
69.65		 3
142.38		 3
212.03		 [36]
Jan. 5-12, 2014 2014 U.S. Championships Junior 1
79.61		 1
144.32		 1
223.93		 [37]
Dec. 5-8, 2013 2013 JGP Final Junior 3
71.52		 3
143.09		 3
214.61		 [38]
Sept. 25-28, 2013 JGP Belarus 2013 Junior 1
69.96		 1
141.15		 1
211.11		 [39]
Sept. 4-8, 2013 JGP Mexico 2013 Junior 1
74.22		 1
144.40		 1
218.62		 [40]
2012–13 season
Date Event Level SP FS Total Ref
Jan. 19–27, 2013 2013 U.S Championships Junior 3
63.60		 4
117.71		 3
181.31		 [41]
Sept. 13–14, 2012 JGP Austria 2012 Junior 1
75.15		 1
146.85		 1
222.00		 [42]
2011–12 season
Date Event Level SP FS Total Ref
Apr. 12–15, 2012 2012 Gardena Spring Trophy Novice 2
44.03		 1
85.42		 1
129.45		 [43]
Jan. 22–29, 2012 2012 U.S. Championships Junior 2
63.15		 1
130.75		 1
193.90		 [44]
2010–11 season
Date Event Level SP FS Total Ref
Jan. 22–30, 2011 2011 U.S. Championships Novice 1
52.47		 1
110.93		 1
163.40		 [45]
2009–10 season
Date Event Level SP FS Total Ref
Jan. 14–24, 2010 2010 U.S. Championships Novice 1
51.24		 3
85.80		 1
137.04		 [46]

Honors

  • Recipient of 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, and 2009 Michael Weiss Foundation Scholarship[47]
  • Recipient of 2012 Ron and Gayle Hershberger Award[48]
  • Recipient of 2011 Athlete Alumni Ambassador Award[49]
  • Recipient of 2011, 2010 Cecilia Colledge Memorial Fund award[50]
  • Recipient of 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, and 2008 U.S. Figure Skating Memorial Fund[51]
  • Member of the 2014-15, 2013–14, 2012–13, 2011–12, 2010-11 U.S. Figure Skating Team Envelope[52]
  • Featured as ABC World News' "Person of the Week" on February 19, 2010[53]
  • Performed in the WiWa Ice Shows in Hangzhou, China, May 1–5, 2010[54]
  • Skated in the annual Sun Valley Summer Ice Shows in Sun Valley, Idaho since 2010[55][56]
  • Performed as a guest skater at Skate Asia 2010 in Hangzhou, China, Skate Asia 2011 in Bangkok, Thailand,[57] Skate Asia 2012 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia [58] and Skate Asia 2013 in Bangkok, Thailand

References

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  51. ↑ U.S. Figure Skating Memorial Fund
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  54. ↑ Susan D. Russell, Wiwa Rocks in China, International Figure Skating Magazine, July 2010
  55. ↑ Stars sparkle at Sun Valley Ice Shows, The Idaho Mountain Express, June 30, 2010
  56. ↑ Sun Valley On Ice
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  58. ↑ Skate Asia 2012

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