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Denis TEN
Kazakhstan
Gold: 0
Silver: 0
Bronze: 1
Gender: Male Nationality: Kazakhstan
Total: 1
Birthday: 13 June 1993 Age: 21
Height: 1.68
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Figure Skating

Medals
Figure Skating Men Bronze

Athlete competitions and results

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

14 February, 19:00 Denis TEN    

Men Free Skating 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

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Rank Event Year Location
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

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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)
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

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)

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)

Social Media
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Figure Skating
Men

ISU World Standings Points: 3511

ISU World Standings Rank: 5
Season Best: 77.05

Media

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