Nathan Chen
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Nathan Chen at 2017 US Nationals
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| Full name | Nathan Chen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented |
 United States
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| Born |
May 5, 1999 Salt Lake City, Utah |
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| Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coach | Rafael Arutyunyan, Marina Zueva, Oleg Epstein, Nadia Kanaeva, Vera Arutyunyan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Former coach | Evgenia Chernyshova, Stephanie Grosscup, Karel Kovar | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Choreographer | Nadia Kanaeva, Marina Zueva | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Former choreographer | Nikolai Morozov, Phillip Mills, Stephanie Grosscup, Evgenia Chernyshova | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Skating club | Salt Lake Figure Skating | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Training locations |
Lakewood, California Canton, Michigan |
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| Former training locations | Salt Lake City, Utah Lake Arrowhead, California Artesia, California |
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| Began skating | 2002 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Combined total | 307.46 2017 Four Continents |
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| Short program | 103.12 2017 Four Continents |
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| Free skate | 204.34 2017 Four Continents |
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Medal record
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| Traditional Chinese | 陳巍 | ||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 陈巍 | ||||||
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| Hanyu Pinyin | Chen2 Wei1 |
Nathan Chen (born May 5, 1999) is an American figure skater. He is the 2017 Four Continents champion, 2016–17 Grand Prix Final silver medalist, and 2017 U.S. national champion. Earlier in his career, he won bronze at the 2014 World Junior Championships and gold at the 2015–16 Junior Grand Prix Final.
Chen is currently the top U.S. scorer (307.46) at international figure skating competitions. He is also the score holder for short program (106.39), free skate (212.08) and overall (318.47) at the U.S. Championships. As of December 10, 2016, he is the only skater in the world capable of landing both the quad lutz and quad flip jumps in competitions. He is the first man to land five quads in the free program and is the current record holder of scoring the most amount of points on one element (the quad lutz-triple toe loop combination).
Nathan Chen was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Zhidong Chen and Hetty Wang. He has four older siblings – Alice, Janice, Tony and Colin. He attended West High School in Salt Lake City and Rim of the World High School in Lake Arrowhead, California, before enrolling at Connections Academy, an online high school, in August 2013 as a sophomore. In addition to figure skating, Chen trained in ballet with Ballet West Academy as well as competing in gymnastics at the state and regional levels for seven years.
Nathan Chen started figure skating at age three and entered his first skating competition in 2003. From 2007 to 2009, he qualified to compete in the U.S. Junior Nationals at the juvenile and intermediate levels. He placed 10th and 3rd in juveniles at the 2007 and 2008 Junior Nationals. At the 2009 Junior Nationals, he won the intermediate men's silver medal.
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