Nathan Chen Biography
Nathan Chen, born on 5th May, 1999 is an American figure skater who competes in the men’s singles discipline. Nathan is the 2018 World champion, the 2018 Winter Olympic bronze medalist in the team event, the 2017 Four Continents champion, a two-time Grand Prix Final champion in 2017 and 2018, and three-time U.S. national champion in 2017, 2018 and 2019. He is the first and currently only skater competing with five quadruple jumps: toe loop, salchow, loop, flip and lutz.
Nathan Chen Age
Born on 5th May 1999, Chen is 19 years old as of 2018.
Nathan Chen Height
He is 1.66 metres tall.
Nathan Chen Parents
He was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, to Zhidong Chen and Hetty Wang. In 1988, his parents immigrated to America, 11 years before their son was born. Later, after they realized his love for skating, the family moved from Salt Lake City to California to give Chen the chance to train and pursue figure skating. His parents are his greatest fans.
Nathan Chen Siblings
He has two elder siblings; Tony Chen and Colin Chen.
Nathan Chen Skating
Chen began figure skating at age three in a pair of his sister’s white skates. In 2003 he entered his first skating competition. He qualified to compete in the U.S. Junior Nationals at the juvenile and intermediate levels, from 2007 to 2009 . He ranked 10th and 3rd in juveniles at the 2007 and 2008 Junior Nationals, while at the 2009 Junior Nationals, he won the intermediate men’s silver medal.
In the 2009–10 season, he advanced to the novice level. At the 2010 U.S. Championships in Spokane, Washington, he became the youngest novice champion in the history of U.S. Figure Skating by winning the national novice title, at age 10 . For the 2010–2011 season, he opted to remain at the novice level due to his young age, and defended his novice title at the 2011 U.S. Championships in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Chen moved up nationally to the junior level, in the 2011–2012 season. Chen was coached by Genia Chernyshova and also traveled to Lake Arrowhead, California, to work with jump specialist Rafael Arutyunyan, who later became his main coach in mid-December 2011. On January 24, 2012, he won the junior men’s title at the 2012 U.S. Championships in San Jose, California . While making his first international appearance, he won the novice men’s event at the 2012 Gardena Spring Trophy in Selva Val Gardena, Italy.
Nathan Chen ISU
When Chen became of age-eligible (13 years old) to compete in the ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) series, his first assignment was JGP Austria in Linz from September 12–16, 2012. With the highest score (222.00 points) ever awarded at the time in the JGP series, he won the gold medal. However a lower leg injury resulted in Chen’s withdrawal following the short program at JGP Croatia in early October 2012, ending his chances of qualifying for the JGP Final. Having stayed at the junior level, nationally, he won the junior men’s bronze medal at the 2013 U.S. Championships in Omaha, Nebraska, on January 22, 2013.
Chen began his 2013-2014 season by winning gold both at the ISU Junior Grand Prix in Mexico, in September 2013, and JGP in Belarus. His victory qualified him for the Junior Grand Prix Final in Fukuoka, Japan, where he won the bronze medal.
Chen broke a six-year U.S. junior men’s record of 213.76 at the 2014 U.S. Championships on January 9, 2014 in Boston, Massachusetts, en route to his second U.S. junior title. His final combination spin in the short program which was the highest among active male skaters in the world, received 4.86 points.
At the 2014 World Junior Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria in March 2014, Chen was awarded the bronze medal. His results and that of his teammates, Jordan Moeller and Shotaro Omori, gained three entries for the United States to the 2015 World Junior Championships.
Nathan Chen Yale – Nathan Chen College
Chen starts his college education at Yale in the 2018-2019. Chen expanded on his school, skating, future plans, life, and other interesting topics, in an in-depth Olympic Channel Facebook Live interview with 2014 Olympic Champion Meryl Davis. Chen stated: “I love skating. I love competing. I love training. I love to be around all my fellow skaters. But at the end of the day I am not going to be skating for all the rest of my life. There will be a moment I’ll have to take a step away from skating and focus on something else. I think right now I am attempting to do both just so I can bridge that gap, so when I am deciding my time in skating is up I can start the second half of my life…”
His assignments for the 2018-19 Grand Prix series are Skate America and Internationaux de France. Luckily for him, the Skate America takes place during the Yale October recess. The Internationaux de France falls during the Thanksgiving recess. The 2018–19 Grand Prix Final begins the day before Yale’s pre-finals reading period starts. And the 2019 World Championships, in Japan, are during Yale’s spring break.
Nathan Chen Olympics – Nathan Chen Olympics 2018
Chen performed a total of seven clean quadruple jumps (two in the short program and five in the free skate) at the 2018 U.S. Championships in San Jose, California,and scored 315.23 to win his second consecutive national title. After the event, Chen, Adam Rippon, and Vincent Zhou were nominated by U.S. Figure Skating to compete at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea as part of the U.S. Olympic Figure Skating Team.
At the Olympics, he placed 4th in the men’s short program of the team event, became the first skater to land a quad Flip at the Olympics. Chen won a bronze medal in the team event alongside teammates Mirai Nagasu, Bradie Tennell, Adam Rippon, Alexa Scimeca Knierim, Chris Knierim, Maia Shibutani, and Alex Shibutani, became one of the youngest male figure skating Olympic medalists.
Nathan Chen Grand Prix
He has since the beggining of his career won five consecutive Grand Prix gold medals. Chen has by winning both Skate America and Internationaux de France qualified to compete in 2018–19 Grand Prix Final to be held in Vancouver, Canada.
Chen competed, at the 2018–19 Grand Prix Final in early December, with the other five qualifiers, Shoma Uno, Michal Březina, Sergei Voronov, Cha Jun-hwan and Keegan Messing (Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu qualified but withdrew due to injury). Chen had mistakes in both his short and long programs – a missed combination jump in the short program and a fall in the long program, but won both segments of the competition and collected his second GPF title.
The gold medal marks Chen the fourth man after Evgeni Plushenko, Patrick Chan and Yuzuru Hanyu to win consecutive Grand Prix Finals since the event’s debut in 1995, and the second man after Evgeni Plushenko to win every one of his Grand Prix competitions in two consecutive seasons.
Nathan Chen Yale Major
He is majoring in a degree in pre-med.
Nathan Chen Net Worth
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Nathan Chen Coach
His current coaches include; Rafael Arutyunyan, Nadia Kanaeva and Vera Arutyunyan, while his former coaches include; Marina Zueva, Oleg Epstein, Evgenia Chernyshova, Stephanie Grosscup, Karel Kovar, Amanda Kovar
Nathan Chen Golden Skate
Nathan Chen – Golden Skate
Nathan Chen And Karen Chen
He was selected alongside Jeremy Abbott, Karen Chen, and Mirai Nagasu to represent Team USA at the Japan Open. There, his free program earned second place behind Javier Fernandez.