Kim Yuna

Kim Yu-na
nation	South Korea
birthday	5th September 1990 (age 29)
place of birth	Bucheon, Gyeonggi-do
size	164 cm
Weight	47 kg
Career
discipline	Single run
Trainer	Peter Oppegard
choreographer	David Wilson
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 2 × 2 × 2 × VKM medals 1 × 0 × 0 ×
winter Olympics gold Vancouver 2010 Ladies silver Sochi 2014 Ladies  World figure skating championships bronze Tokyo 2007 Ladies bronze Gothenburg 2008 Ladies gold Los Angeles 2009 Ladies silver Turin 2010 Ladies silver Moscow 2011 Ladies gold London (Ontario) 2013 Ladies Four continents championships gold Vancouver 2009 Ladies
Personal best
Total points 228.56 Olympia 2010  Freestyle 150.06 Olympia 2010  Short program 78.50 Olympia 2010
Placements in the figure skating Grand Prix
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Grand Prix Final 3 1 0  Grand Prix competitions 7th 0 1
last change: December 31, 2010 bold font = world record

Korean spelling
Hangeul	김연아
Hanja	金 姸 兒
Revised Romanization	Gim Yeon-a
McCune- Reischauer	Kim Yŏna
See also : Korean name

Kim Yu-na (born September 5, 1990 in Bucheon , Gyeonggi-do ) is a former South Korean figure skater who started in a single run . She is the Olympic champion of 2010 and the world champion of 2009 and 2013 . After winning the silver medal at the 2014 Winter Olympics , she ended her career.

Life

Kim was born on September 5, 1990 in Bucheon and moved to Gunpo with her family at the age of six . She currently lives in Artesia , California .

In May 2008 Kim and her mother were baptized as a Roman Catholic , taking the saint's name “ Stella ”. Her father and older sister do not belong to any religion.

In 2009, Kim enrolled in sports studies at the University of Korea in Seoul.

The official translation of her name from Korean would be "Kim Yeon-a". After a previously unconfirmed rumor, her mother decided to write the name as "Yun-a". However, the officer mistakenly wrote this as "Yu-Na".

Career

Kim started figure skating at the age of seven. Her coach at the time, Jong-Hyeon Ryu, recognized that Kim would become a world-class runner and advised her mother to let her daughter continue training. In 2002 she took part in an international competition for the first time. A year later she became the first South Korean senior champion, which she defended three times until 2006. In 2005 she was junior world champion behind Mao Asada and in 2006 in Ljubljana finally junior world champion ahead of the Japanese.

In the summer of 2006, Kim went to the Toronto Cricket, Skating and Curling Club in Canada to prepare for her first senior season. Her trainer was Brian Orser from March 2007 to August 2010 .

In her first season with the seniors Kim already made her international breakthrough. She won the Grand Prix final . At her first World Cup in Tokyo in 2007 , she won the bronze medal behind the two Japanese women Miki Andō and Mao Asada . In doing so, she set a world record for points in the short program.

In the following season, in December 2007, she defended her gold medal at the Grand Prix final. As in the previous year, she won the bronze medal at the World Championships .

At the Grand Prix final in 2008 she lost to Mao Asada and won the silver medal. At the Four Continents Championships in Vancouver in 2009, however, she was able to beat Asada, as did Joannie Rochette , and thus won her first title at this competition.

At the World Championships in Los Angeles , she improved her own point record in the short program by almost four points. She showed a triple flip, triple toe loop combination, a triple Lutz and a double axel . Kim also won the freestyle, becoming the first South Korean woman to be figure skating world champion and set a new total point record with 207.71 points. It was the first time since the introduction of the new evaluation system that a figure skater had reached the two hundred point mark .

At the beginning of the 2009/2010 season Kim improved the world points record in the freestyle and general classification at the Trophée Eric Bompard and the world point record in the short program at Skate America . She won both Grand Prix competitions. So she qualified for the Grand Prix final, which she won for the third time in her career.

As reigning world champion, Grand Prix final winner and point record holder, Kim was the favorite for the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver . Mao Asada was seen as the greatest competitor . But Kim didn't give her a chance. In the short program she set a new world record of 78.50 points and in the freestyle of 150.06 points. In the freestyle for the piano concerto in F by George Gershwin, put together by her choreographer David Wilson , she showed a triple Lutz triple toe loop combination, a triple flip, a double Axel , double toe loop, double Rittberger combination, a double -Axel triple toe loop combination, a triple Salchow , a triple Lutz and a double Axel. She became the first South Korean woman to win Olympic gold in figure skating and improved her own world record by a total of 18 points to 228.56 points . It was the first Olympic medal for South Korea at winter games outside of the disciplines of speed skating and short track .

After her Olympic victory, Kim struggled with motivation problems at the World Championships in Turin . After the short program she was only in seventh place, but then won the freestyle and thus the silver medal behind Mao Asada.

In the 2010/2011 season, Kim did not take part in any Grand Prix competitions. At the 2011 World Championships in Moscow , Kim was just ahead of Miki Ando in the lead despite a mistake in the short program , but had to admit defeat to her after the freestyle and won silver. In October 2011, Kim announced a one-year break from competition. In the 2012/2013 season she again skipped the Grand Prix in order to concentrate fully on the 2013 World Championship in London (Ontario) , where she won her second title on March 16.

At the 2014 Olympic Games , she scored points in the short program and was in the lead before the freestyle. There she only had to admit defeat to the Russian Adelina Sotnikowa , but could not defend her title. The placement of Sotnikova ahead of Kim caused international incomprehension. After winning the silver medal, she ended her career.

She lit the Olympic flame at the opening of the 2018 Winter Olympics .

Results

Championship / year	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2013	2014
winter Olympics								1.			2.
World championships					3.	3.	1.	2.	2.	1.
Four continents championships							1.
Junior World Championships			2.	1.
South Korean Championships	1.	1.	1.	1.						1.	1.
Grand Prix competition / season	2002/03	2003/04	2004/05	2005/06	2006/07	2007/08	2008/09	2009/10	2010/11	2012/13	2013/14
Grand Prix Final					1.	1.	2.	1.
Skate America							1.	1.
Skate Canada					3.
Cup of Russia						1.
Eric Bompard Trophy					1.			1.
Cup of China						1.	1.

literature

• Kim Yuna , in: Internationales Sportarchiv 46/2012 from November 13, 2012, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of the article freely available)

Web links

Commons : Kim Yuna  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Kim Yu-na in the database of the International Skating Union (English)
• Kim Yuna in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} 김연아 이름 은 3 가지? ... 영문 표기 의 비밀. In: sports.chosun.com. May 19, 2008. Retrieved August 29, 2010 (Korean). 
2. ↑ Ice art star Kim Yuna is a practicing Catholic , kath.net, February 21, 2014
3. ↑ Kim Yu-na Captures Skate America Title. In: Korea Times . October 27, 2008, accessed February 13, 2011 . 
4. ↑ Jayeon Woo: Koreans Await Kim Yu-na, or is it Yuna Kim? In: Wall Street Journal . February 19, 2014, accessed February 20, 2014 . 
5. ↑ Song Yun-se: 김연아 “남 의식 하기 보단 자발적인 노력 의 힘” 연습 벌레 근성 이 성공 의 발판. (No longer available online.) In: Daum. Newsen, May 18, 2009; archived from the original on July 16, 2012 ; Retrieved February 13, 2011 (Korean). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ Kim Yu-na speaks out against ex-coach. (No longer available online.) Asia News Network, August 26, 2010, archived from the original on September 9, 2010 ; accessed on September 4, 2010 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ [1]
8. ↑ South Korea's Kim Yu-Na earns figure skating gold. In: BBC. February 26, 2010, accessed February 13, 2011 . 
9. ↑ Japanese Ando World Champion - Hedges eleventh. In: sueddeutsche.de . dpa , April 30, 2011, archived from the original on May 2, 2011 ; Retrieved April 30, 2011 . 
10. ↑ Figure skating. Results individual women. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; accessed on January 7, 2016 . 
11. ↑ René Hofmann: "Worse than Salt Lake City" . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . No. 43, February 21, 2014, p. 27.
12. ↑ FAZ of February 22, 2014, p. 28 .: The rules of the dubious game ( archive )
13. ↑ FAZ of February 22, 2014, p. 27: A case for cynics - a comment by Christoph Becker
14. ↑ The FAZ (p. 25) quotes Kati Witt as "Words of the Day" as follows: I was completely stunned and angry at our sport. You don't have to be surprised when people turn off
15. ^ ORF: Scandal or ice skating? ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
16. ↑ The end of career after silver , accessed on February 21, 2014.
17. ↑ Incorrect entry in the ISU biography; see. The Nymph of Figure Skating Waits for August , Dong-a Ilbo, February 10, 2004.
18. ↑ Nicholas McCarvel: Yuna Kim runs away with national title in South Korea . NBC OlympicTalk. Retrieved January 18, 2014.

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Kim is the family name here, Yu-na is the first name.