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Denis TEN

Kazakhstan

Gender: Male
Nationality: Kazakhstan

Birthday: 13 June 1993
Age: 21

Height: 1.68 m (5' 6'')
Weight: -

Place of Birth: Kazakhstan, ALMATY
Place of Residence: -

Figure Skating

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Medals

Athlete competitions and results

13 February, 19:00 Men Short Program
Denis TEN
Score: 84.06
Rank: 9

14 February, 19:00 Men Free Skating
Denis TEN
Score: 255.10
Rank: 3

Additional Information

Highlights

Rank	Event	Year	Location
Olympic Winter Games
11	Men	2010	Vancouver, BC, CAN
World Championships
2	Men	2013	London, ON, CAN
7	Men	2012	Nice, FRA
13	Men	2010	Torino, ITA
14	Men	2011	Moscow, RUS
Four Continents Championships
4	Men	2014	Taipei, TPE
6	Men	2012	Colorado Springs, CO, USA
12	Men	2013	Osaka, JPN
Asian Winter Games
1	Men	2011	Kazakhstan

Best performance per season in Grand Prix events from 2010/2011

Season	Men
2013/2014	1 x 4th
2012/2013	1 x 6th
2011/2012	2 x 5th
2010/2011	1 x 11th

Rank	Event	Year	Location
Grand Prix performances in current season
4	Men	2013/2014	Cup of China, CHN
World Junior Championships
4	Men	2012	Minsk, BLR
9	Men	2010	The Hague, NED
ISU World Standings (as of 03 Feb 2014)
5	Men

Personal Bests

Type	Date	Score	Competition	Event
Total	15 Mar 2013	266.48	World Championships 2013	Men
Short Program	13 Mar 2013	91.56	World Championships 2013	Men
Short Program Technical	13 Mar 2013	50.81	World Championships 2013	Men
Short Program Component	01 Nov 2013	40.82	GP Cup of China 2013	Men
Free Skating	15 Mar 2013	174.92	World Championships 2013	Men
Free Skating Technical	15 Mar 2013	87.76	World Championships 2013	Men
Free Skating Component	15 Mar 2013	87.16	World Championships 2013	Men

Season Bests

Type	Date	Score	Competition	Event
Total	24 Jan 2014	226.37	Four Continents Championships 2014	Men
Short Program	01 Nov 2013	77.05	GP Cup of China 2013	Men
Short Program Technical	22 Jan 2014	39.13	Four Continents Championships 2014	Men
Short Program Component	01 Nov 2013	40.82	GP Cup of China 2013	Men
Free Skating	24 Jan 2014	150.03	Four Continents Championships 2014	Men
Free Skating Technical	24 Jan 2014	73.95	Four Continents Championships 2014	Men
Free Skating Component	02 Nov 2013	80.50	GP Cup of China 2013	Men

Hobbies: Music, movies, reading, spending time with friends. (ISU, 27 Sep 2013)
Coach: Frank Carroll (USA) (ISU, 24 Dec 2013)
Injuries: He suffered an injury during the warm up for the 2013 World University Winter Games in Trento, Italy, and had to withdraw from the competition. (insidethegames.biz, 11 Dec 2013)

He suffered back and ankle injuries in 2013. (tengrinews.kz, 06 Dec 2013)

He withdrew from the 2013 Skate America event due to an infection. (ISU, 25 Nov 2013)

Languages Spoken: Russian
Sporting Relatives: His great-great grandfather is Min Keung Ho, a well-known commander who was killed in the Korean independence war. (Tengri, 25 Jan 2011; chosun.com, 07 May 2010)
Previous Olympics: Vancouver 2010

Additional Information

Music
Music short program/short dance as of season 2013/2014
Danse Macabre by Camille Saint-Saens

Music free skating/free dance as of season 2013/2014
The Young Lady And The Hooligan by Dmitri Shostakovich (ISU, 24 Dec 2013)

Choreographer
Lori Nichol, CAN (ISU, 24 Dec 2013)

Start of sporting career
He began skating in 1998 in Almaty, Kazakhstan. (ONS, 20 Feb 2014)

Reason for taking up this sport
His mother took him to a well-known outdoor skating rink. "I saw all those people skating and made the decision to become a figure skater." (ONS, 20 Feb 2014)

Ambitions
To compete at the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi. (icenetwork.com, 28 Aug 2013)

Training
During the high and low season he trains 23 hours a week in El Segundo, CA, United States. (ISU, 24 Dec 2013)

Hero
Russians figure skaters Alexei Yagudin and llia Kulik, and his great-great grandfather Min Keung Ho. (Tengri, 25 Jan 2011; chosun.com, 07 May 2010)

General
NATIONAL FIRSTS
His bronze medal in the singles at the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi was the first figure skating medal won by a Kazakhstani skater. He became the first figure skater from Kazakhstan to win a medal at an International Skating Union [ISU] championship, when he won silver at the 2013 World Championships in London, ON, Canada. (ISU, 04 Feb 2014; nbcsports.com, 15 Feb 2014; SportsDeskOnline, 16 Feb 2014)

CHORUS SINGING
In 2002, he participated at the Choir Olympics in Pusan, Korea. A year later he had to choose between singing or figure skating, as he did not have enough time to dedicate to both. (Tengri, 25 Jan 2011)

PERFORMANCE PREFERENCES
He is one of the few professional ice skaters able to perform Biellmann spin, which requires a great deal of flexibility and is mainly performed by female figure skaters. He says his favourite part of his performance is the new set of step sequences. "They are incredibly complex, but very cool. I hope the public will judge them on their merits." (icenetwork.co, 28 Aug 2013; Tengri, 25 Jan 2011)

SHOWMAN
In May 2013 he and several international skaters performed in a skating show called Denis Ten and Friends in Astana and Almaty, Kazakhstan. (icenetwork.com, 28 Aug 2013)

TRAINING SWITCH
He moved from Moscow, Russia to the US after the 2009/10 season for training purposes. (icenetwork.com, 28 Aug 2013)

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Figure Skating

Men

ISU World Standings Points: 3511
ISU World Standings Rank: 5
Season Best: 77.05