Nam Nguyen
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Nguyen at the 2015 Four Continents
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| Country represented | Canada | ||||||||||||
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May 20, 1998 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
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| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||
| Coach | David Glynn | ||||||||||||
| Former coach | Brian Orser, Ernest Pryhitka, Tracy Wilson, Joanne McLeod, Kevin Bursey | ||||||||||||
| Choreographer | David Wilson | ||||||||||||
| Former choreographer | Jeffrey Buttle, Lori Nichol, Joanne McLeod, Aaron Lowe | ||||||||||||
| Skating club | Toronto Cricket Club | ||||||||||||
| Training locations | San Jose, California | ||||||||||||
| Former training locations |
Toronto, Ontario; Burnaby, British Columbia |
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| Began skating | 2003 | ||||||||||||
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| Combined total | 242.59 2015 Worlds |
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| Short program | 79.62 2016 Skate America |
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| Free skate | 164.86 2015 Worlds |
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Nam Nguyen (born May 20, 1998) is a Canadian figure skater. He is the 2014 World Junior champion, 2014 Skate America bronze medalist and 2015 Canadian national champion.
Nam Nguyen was born May 20, 1998 in Ottawa. Both of his parents are from Vietnam — his father, Sony, moved to Canada in 1988 and sponsored his wife, Thu, in 1994. His father is an engineer and his mother works for a medical software company. His sister, Kim, is six years younger and is also a figure skater. He lived in Richmond, British Columbia and Burnaby, B.C. from 1999 to 2012, and then moved to Toronto, Ontario, so that he and his sister could train under Brian Orser. He is a student at Northview Heights Secondary School.
Nguyen began skating in 2003. Growing up, his figure skating idols were Evgeni Plushenko, Stephane Lambiel, and Jeffrey Buttle. Nguyen also cites his training mates, Yuzuru Hanyu and Javier Fernandez, as being his inspirations.
From 2007 to 2009, Nguyen won three Canadian national men's titles — Juvenile, Pre-Novice, and Novice — each time becoming the youngest skater to do so. In 2010, he won the bronze medal on the junior level at the Canadian Championships. Nguyen performed in the exhibition gala at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia. The following year at the 2011 Canadian Championships, he became the youngest skater to win the junior men's title.
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