Denis Ten

Denis Ten
Full name	Denis Yuryevich Ten
nation	Kazakhstan
birthday	June 13, 1993
place of birth	Almaty, Kazakhstan
size	168 cm
date of death	19th July 2018
Place of death	Almaty, Kazakhstan
Career
discipline	Single run
society	Kiyal Almaty
Trainer	Frank Carroll , Nikolai Morosow (former trainers: Rafael Harutjunjan Jelena Wodoresowa , Tatjana Tarasowa )
choreographer	David Wilson (former choreographers: Stéphane Lambiel , Lori Nichol , Jelena Wodoresowa, Tatjana Tarasowa , Irina Tagajewa , Michail Potschitalin)
End of career	2018
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 0 × 1 × World Cup medals 0 × 1 × 1 ×
winter Olympics bronze 2014 Sochi Men's  World figure skating championships silver 2013 London Men's bronze 2015 Shanghai Men's  Winter Asian Games gold 2011 Astana Men's Four continents championships gold 2015 Seoul Men's
Personal best
Total points 289.46 VKM 2015  Freestyle 191.85 VKM 2015  Short program 97.61 VKM 2015
Placements in the figure skating Grand Prix
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Grand Prix Final 0 0 0  Grand Prix competitions 0 1 1

Denis Jurjewitsch Ten ( Russian Денис Юрьевич Тен ; born June 13, 1993 in Almaty ; † July 19, 2018 ibid) was a Kazakh figure skater who started in a single run . He won bronze at the 2014 Olympics and was the 2015 four continents champion .

Career

Denis Ten was born in Almaty in 1993 and belonged to the Korean minority in Kazakhstan . His great-great-grandfather Min Keung-ho was a well-known Korean general who fought for Korea's independence from Japan in the early 20th century.

In 2002 he visited South Korea for the first time because of a competition at his music school, where he was a choir member. At the age of ten he moved to Moscow to train with Jelena Vodoresova .

On October 5, 2006, at the age of 13, he made his international debut in The Hague. Two years later he won his first Junior Grand Prix victory in Belarus. It was the first victory of a Kazakhs in an international skating union competition . At his first World Cup in 2009 , he was the youngest participant and surprisingly came 8th. A year later he finished 11th in his first Olympic Games . At the following World Cup he was 13th and then moved with his mother to California to train with Frank Carroll . The 2011 World Cup finished Ten in 14th place.

At the 2012 World Cup in Nice , Ten achieved his best World Cup result to date with seventh place and improved his personal best in freestyle and overall performance. He opened the freestyle with a successful quadruple toe loop , but stumbled out of the following triple axel . He recovered from this mistake and landed a strong triple axel in combination with a double toe loop, but by the end of the freestyle he ran out of strength and other minor mistakes followed.

Ten achieved his final breakthrough at the 2013 World Cup in London, Canada . In the short program, he improved his personal best by almost 14 points to 91.56 points and thus took second place in this segment. This time he was able to save his good form in the freestyle. He showed Ludovic Bource's film music for The Artist, among other things, a quadruple toe loop and a triple axel-triple toe loop combination and improved his personal best in the free skate to 174.92 points, with which he won the freestyle. Naturally, this also meant a new personal record in the overall performance of 266.48 points and ultimately secured him the silver medal, just one point behind world champion Patrick Chan . Ten's first medal at a world championship was also the first medal for Kazakhstan at world championships. At the 2014 Olympic Games , Ten achieved the next major success. After a 9th place in the short program, he was able to win the bronze medal in the overall ranking by increasing the freestyle.

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death

Denis Ten was the victim of a robbery in the Kazakh city of Almaty in the early afternoon of July 19, 2018 . He was attacked with a knife by one of the two perpetrators who were about to steal the mirror of his car after a violent argument and suffered a stab wound on his right thigh. He died in the hospital a few hours later after losing a lot of blood. The next day, one of the two perpetrators, a 24-year-old, was arrested and confessed to the crime; his accomplice of the same age was also caught shortly afterwards. On January 17, 2019, the two were sentenced to 18 years in a labor camp, and one other party who was accused was sentenced to four years in prison.

Tens parents set up a foundation in order to, among other things, open an ice skating school as a souvenir of their son and to organize an international competition. Fans and friends of the figure skater also initiated a petition to name the ice rink in Almaty (Halyk Arena) after Denis Ten. In 2019, the Kazakh-British Technical University in Almaty, where Ten was enrolled, awarded the newly created Denis-Ten Scholarship to young athletes for the first time.

Results

Competition / year	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
winter Olympics		11.				3.				27.
World championships	8th.	13.	14th	7th	2.		3.	11.	16.	Z
Four continents championships	9.	10.		6th	12.	4th	1.	Z		15th
Winter Asian Games			1.						10.
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Grand Prix competition / season	08/09	09/10	10/11	11/12	12/13	13/14	14/15	15/16	16/17	17/18
Skate America			11.	5.		Z	4th	9.	Z
Skate Canada				5.	6th
Cup of Russia					9.					9.
Eric Bompard Trophy							3.	4th	2.	8th.
NHK Trophy			12.
Cup of China						4th

• Z = withdrawn

Web links

Commons : Denis Ten  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Denis Ten in the database of the International Skating Union (English)
• Denis Ten in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Skating world mourns passing of Denis Ten. In: Golden Skate. July 19, 2018, accessed July 20, 2018 . Liz Roscher: Figure skater Denis Ten dies after knife attack in Kazakhstan. In: Yahoo Sports . July 19, 2018, accessed July 20, 2018 . 
    
2. ↑ Denis Ten bleeding to death after being attacked by a knife. SID message on sz-online.de , July 19, 2018, accessed on July 19, 2018 . Figure skating: Olympic knight Denis Ten bleeding to death after knife attack - suspect admits blood to Ten. In: Sport1.de . July 20, 2018. Retrieved July 20, 2018 . 
    
3. ↑ Figure skater Ten died because of two exterior mirrors. In: WeltN24 . July 20, 2018. Retrieved July 20, 2018 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b} Denis Tens murderer sentenced to 18 years . In: pirouette . Volume 52, No. 2, 2019, p. 8.
5. ↑ University awards Denis Ten scholarship . In: pirouette . Volume 52, No. 10, 2019, p. 7.