Kim Yuna was born in Bucheon City, South Korea. When she was six years old, her family moved to Gunpo City, South Korea. When he was 7 years old, he went to an ice rink not far from home with his sister and started to get into skating. He soon won the national championships in various events. ), at the age of 13, he won the Triglav Grand Prix for the first time in an international competition. At the age of 14, he became the youngest member of the national team. From then on, he began to travel to various ice rinks for arduous training. The Hungarian Youth Grand Prix Champion, creating the best result in the history of Korean figure skating. In the 2006 World Youth Championship, he won the gold medal by defeating players who were already emerging internationally. Later, he met Brian Orser, who is called figure skating Hiddink (and became his first disciple). Since then, he has launched an impact on world records one after another. He has never missed the podium since he was a teenager. Every breakthrough rewrites the history of Korean figure skating and provides the world with the best performances; in this world, only the first place can win. Will be remembered in a mean society, she is hands down the best. The correct English spelling of Kim Yeon-A should be: Kim Yeon-A, but when applying for a passport, the operating officer mistakenly spelled it as Yu-na, which is still used today.
Kim Yuna started practicing figure skating at the age of 7. The coach took a fancy to her extremely high talent and suggested that her mother let her daughter continue to learn. Due to self-funded training, Kim Yuna’s family was not well-off and was forced to let Kim Yuna’s sister After giving up figure skating practice, Kim Yuna embarked on the road of figure skating.
In 2002, Kim Yuna participated in the international competition (Triglav Trophy) for the first time and won the gold medal. A year later, 12-year-old Kim Yuna won the Korean Youth Figure Skating Championship, becoming the youngest winner in the history of the event. Subsequently, she won her second international competition championship (Golden Bear of Zagreb), and in 2004 she won the Korean Figure Skating Championship again.
From May 4 to 6, 2014, Kim Yuna officially announced her retirement at the All That Skate retirement commemorative performance. The young Kim Yuna made such achievements on the ice, but no one thought that she would almost quit the ice world. In the summer of 2005, Kim Yuna lost her confidence due to skate problems and recurring knee injuries. At this time, Kim Yuna's Korean coach believed that changing her training environment could stimulate her fighting spirit. In the summer of 2006, she went to the Toronto Cricket and Curling Club in Canada.
After three months of training in Canada, Kim Yuna discovered that the training environment here is excellent, and she decided to use Toronto as her training base for a long time. Here she came into contact with former Winter Olympics silver medalist Brian Orser and asked him to become her full-time coach. "At the beginning, I couldn't guarantee that I could lead this rare genius girl well." Orser said, but when Orser saw that Kim Yuna had the same competitive spirit as him and refused to admit defeat, Orser felt that this was something he could not do. Rejected challenge.
Oser and Wilson accepted this shy but tough girl. Just like an uncut jade, the little girl had all the conditions to become a world champion, but her on-ice performance lacked One necessary ingredient: personality. A week passed and Kim Yuna didn't even smile at all. At the end of that summer, Kim Yuner became a humorous and outgoing little girl. "I made the right choice to move to Canada for training, and Brian Orser is a good coach for me," she said.
In the 2006-2007 season, as the only world-class athlete in South Korea, Kim Yuna suffered from repeated back injuries and was unable to participate in the domestic selection before the World Championships. However, members of the Korean national team expressed dissatisfaction with their admission to the World Championships, so Kim Yuna, who was seriously injured, was forced to participate in the national competition that year and won the championship. After the game, South Korea issued a request to her to win more than two places in the World Championships.
Under pressure and injuries, Kim Yuna actually broke the world record for the first time in the short program of the 2007 World Championships. However, she was exhausted and fell during the subsequent free skate. Third, South Korea won two quotas for next season.
The tragic thing is that after the World Championships, no Korean company is still willing to sponsor Kim Yuna. However, even so, Kim Yuna still faced it with a smile and insisted on wandering on the ice rink for her dream: to win the gold medal at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. No matter how difficult the journey is, she is willing to persevere until the end, until the day her dream comes true. Kim Yuna won the championship in the 2007 Figure Skating Grand Prix in China and Russia with a margin of 24.34 and 24.43 respectively, and refreshed her own world record. In the Grand Prix finals, Kim Yuna successfully defended her title with an outstanding performance.
But at the beginning of 2008, Kim Yuna was diagnosed with hip injury again. The MRI examination showed that the muscles near the left hip joint were partially necrotic. Due to persistent pain, she missed figure skating on four continents. race. Before the World Championships, she suffered a back injury. Kim Yuna was not allowed to participate in the 2008 World Championships with four hours of non-stop painkiller injections. At the World Championships, Kim Yuna made a major mistake in the short program, but she scored the highest score in the free skate. Her outstanding performance unexpectedly earned her another bronze medal. This season Kim Yuna changed her performance to a different style than before.
Wearing a black dress embellished with white flowers, she danced to the song "Dance of the Skeletons" with a cool and supernatural color. The fiery red dress decorated with gold beads and the red fluttering hair on her bun. The headdress interprets the romance and mystery of "Arabian Nights". Kim Yuna's short program and free skate with different styles ignited the passion of the audience. Applause and cheers accompanied every high jump and steady landing on the ice at high speed. The skating and graceful spins echoed throughout the ice rink. The beating elves on the ice are like delicate flowers blooming on the white ice, sending ripples of happiness in the air with flying ice crystals, sending the pure and beautiful experience directly into the hearts of every audience. Kim Yuna, the talented Korean figure skating girl, has entered the hearts of every audience, making it unforgettable.
In the U.S. Grand Prix, she won the championship with a 20-point advantage, and then in the Chinese station, she won again with a 21-point advantage. In the local Grand Prix finals, she ranked first in the short program and second in the free skate due to a mistake. Kim Yuna finished second with a narrow gap of 2.20 points and failed to complete her third consecutive championship in the finals.
The Four Continents Games held in Vancouver in 2009 was regarded as a warm-up match for the Vancouver Winter Olympics. Many world-famous athletes, including Kim Yuna, participated in the competition. In the short program, she performed amazingly, scoring 72.24 points, ranking first, and setting a world record. He scored 116.83 points in the free skate, ranking first in total points and winning the Four Continents Championship for the first time.
In the 2009 World Figure Skating Championships held in Los Angeles, USA, Kim Yuna impressed the audience with her almost perfect performance, scoring 207.71 points (76.12 points in the short program and 131.59 points in the free skate), setting a new record set by herself. She holds the world record and became the first women's singles player to score more than 200 points under the current scoring method. She won by 16.4 points, making her the player with the largest advantage to win the World Championships since 2005. At the same time, she was also the only player whose 3-3 difficult jump was recognized in the competition. In the 2009 French Grand Prix, Kim Yuna appeared in a new look. Her near-perfect performance allowed her to once again refresh her own world record for total points (210.07 points), defeating the Japanese player by 36.04 points to win the championship. At the next US station, Kim Yuna once again set a world record in the short program (76.28 points) and won the championship. Afterwards, she won the championship again in the finals held in Japan, adding confidence to win the Olympic Games.
Kim Yuna is the biggest favorite to win the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics.
In the short program, her performance was flawless, and all technical moves were completed with high quality. She received the highest technical score of 44.70 points and program content score of 33.80 points. Her total score of 78.50 points once again set a world record, leading the second place by 4.72 points. Free skate competition. On February 25, 2010, the free skating competition officially began. Kim Yuna was ranked third in the last group. Her free skate was Gershwin's "Piano Concerto in F Major". Kim Yuna's opening 3Lz-3T was performed perfectly, almost comparable to that of the male skaters, and the 3F jump was completed in one go. , the 2A-2T-2Lo entered by Bao Bu were completed beautifully, and the 2A-3T ??entered by Da Yizi after that, and the 3S and 3Lz entered by pace were all completed beautifully, and both received high technical bonus points. At the end of the show, the audience burst into applause. Kim Yuna was also moved to tears because of her performance. Almost all the TV commentators exclaimed. In the end, Kim Yuna scored 150.06 points (technical score of 78.30 points, program content score of 71.76 points), ranking first in the competition. She was the only contestant with a program content score of 9 points. In the end, she won the championship with 228.56 points, more than 20 points ahead of the second place, becoming the first figure skating Olympic champion in Korean history. This score exceeded the original world record by 18 points and was recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records. Kim Yuna, who had been away from the competition for 18 months, scored 129.34 points with her free skate "Les Misérables" at the 2012 NRW Cup held in Dortmund, Germany in the early morning of December 10. She scored 72.27 points in the short program "Vampire Kiss" performed the day before, and finally won the championship without any suspense with a total score of 201.61, making a perfect comeback.
On January 6, 2013, Kim Yuna (23 years old, Korea University) scored 145.80 points (technical score 70.79) in the free skate competition at the National Men's and Women's Comprehensive Figure Skating Championships held at the Mokdong Indoor Skating Rink in Seoul. Kim Yuna, who also ranked first in the short program (64.97 points) the day before, won the championship with a total score of 210.77 points. This is the first score of more than 200 points in a domestic competition in South Korea, and it is also the fifth time that Kim Yuna has achieved a score of more than 200 points. Kim Yuna also used this to win the right to participate in the Women's Singles World Championship. As Kim's "Les Miserables" ended, the audience roared with cheers and a standing ovation, and hundreds of gifts flew from the stands to the ice. This is a way for the audience to express their gratitude to Kim Yuna, the queen of figure skating, who gave a perfect performance on the Korean domestic stage after 6 years.
On the morning of March 17th, Beijing time, the 2013 World Figure Skating Championships came to a successful conclusion in London, Canada. In the last women's singles competition, the Vancouver Winter Olympics women's singles champion Kim Yuna of South Korea performed perfectly. It announced the return of the Queen of Ice and successfully won the women's singles crown at this World Championships. Although she has been away from the competition for a while, Korean star Kim Yuna, the Vancouver Winter Olympics champion who made a strong return in the 2013 season, was almost back to her peak in today's free skate of "Les Misérables." The entire set of technical moves in the program was completed without leakage. The triple hook hook followed by the outside ice triple triple jump was easy and clean. The subsequent six sets of jumps were not only completed without errors, but also received technical bonus points for the quality of completion. On the other hand, as time goes by, Kim Yuna's performances have become more confident and mature. In this free skate performance, many judges gave her a perfect score of 10 in terms of performance and music coordination. In the end, ice queen Kim Yuna won the championship with a free skate score of 148.34 points and a total score of 218.31 points, leading the second place by 20 points, setting a record for the largest point difference at the World Championships since the implementation of the new scoring rules. On September 26, 2013, the official website of the International Skating Union showed that Kim Yuna had withdrawn from the 2013 Grand Prix. According to Korean media reports, South Korean figure skating queen Kim Yuna, who was returning for the Sochi Winter Olympics, suffered a sudden injury and injured her right foot and will need 6 weeks. Treatment may require a longer period of rest for safety reasons, so he announced his withdrawal from the upcoming Canadian and French Grand Prix.
The two new programs before the Winter Olympics lost the warm-up opportunities for the two Grand Prix and the finals, which cast a shadow on her prospects of defending the Olympic title.
On December 8, 2013, in the 46th "Zagreb Golden Spin" figure skating competition, Kim Yuna, who returned from injury, was not in her best condition, but still scored a total score of 204.49 points. , easily won the first championship of the season.
In the Korean National Championships in January 2014, Kim Yuna set a new record for the highest score in the short program with 80.06 points, with a total score of 227.86 points, nearly 60 points ahead of the second place, and won the Korean championship for the sixth time.
2014 Sochi Winter Olympics
As the defending champion, Kim Yuna led with a high score of 74.92 points after the short program, ranking first. The short program Kim Yuna carefully prepared for her last Winter Olympics was the quiet and moving "Enter the Clown". In terms of technical difficulty, Kim Yuna performed the triple hook jump at the beginning of the program very steadily, followed by the triple hook jump and Axel's double jump. The only thing that was wrong to her was The technical points that have a slight impact are the grading of bending turns and follow-up steps. In terms of program content, Kim Yuna's delicate performance made this program deeply touching, and she received high scores of more than 9 points in skating, performance and music. In the free skate, Kim Yuna chose Piazzolla's classic tango dance piece "Farewell Nonino" for her last dance. Kim Yuna's majestic and deep performance fully demonstrated the charm of this piece and perfected the taste of tango. Integrating into figure skating, the Queen of Ice returned as king at the Sochi Winter Olympics and completed a perfect finale with her wonderful performance. She finally won the silver medal with a free skate score of 144.19 points and a total score of 219.11 points.
Competition Controversy
The women's singles figure skating competition at the Sochi Winter Olympics ended. Russian skater Adelina Sotnikova, who made a mistake, unexpectedly won the gold medal. The result was criticized by major media around the world. The level of attention even surpassed the scandal of the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics.
USA Today: Women’s singles referees have raised questions. Two of the nine referees have “suspicious” identities. One of them has a “record” of being suspended, and the other is actually the wife of the president of the Russian Figure Skating Association.
The Japan Times: Winter Olympics scandal-women's single skating judges stole the gold medal and gave it to the Russian skater
Reuters: The Russian skater's gold medal sparked strong doubts
ChinaDaily: The results of the Russian women's singles championship are subject to review
France's L'Equipe: Figure skating scandal! Russia!
The Australian: Sochi figure skating scandal! The gold medal was forcibly robbed by Russia
CNN: The results of women's singles skating at the Sochi Winter Olympics sparked strong controversy
The New York Times: The disappointing women's singles gold medal makes figure skating difficult
Industry Skating Network: Examining women’s single skating – corruption in Sochi
Wall Street Journal: Figure skating amid cheating scandals, the admirable Kim Yuna
Chicago Tribune: Russia won the first gold medal in women's single skating in history, and it also produced the most questionable scoring controversy in the history of figure skating
Figure skating legend Dick Button: Reply In the darkest times in history (like my own), dear Yan'er, you are the true champion. While I'm commenting, I'm sure you've made an otherworldly change and leap. You are a different player today. Congratulations!
Jaime Sale (one of the victims of the Salt Lake City referee scandal) strongly disagrees with the performance of the referees tonight. Kim Yuna should be the first.
Katrina Witt (two-time winter referee) Olympic Women's Singles Champion): When Kim Yuna finished her performance, I was very sure that she was the champion, but I didn't expect this result. I was really disappointed and even a little angry. I really couldn't understand it.
Chirstine Brennan I have heard many big names in the figure skating world question the refereeing work of this Olympics. This is the most serious one since the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, and we all know these. Where do the doubts and worries come from
Chang Dan: I feel sorry for Kim Yuna, saying that in comparison, the champion “can’t skate”