Patrick Chan

Patrick Chan
Patrick Chan at the 2009 World Championships
Personal information
Full name	Patrick Lewis Wai-Kuan Chan
Alternative names	Chan Wai-Kuan
Country represented	Canada
Born	(1990-12-31) December 31, 1990 (age 26) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Residence	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Height	171 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Coach	Marina Zueva, Oleg Epstein, Johnny Johns
Former coach	Kathy Johnson, Christy Krall, Eddie Shipstad, Don Laws, Ellen Burka, Shin Amano, Osborne Colson, Mei Yang
Choreographer	Pasquale Camerlengo, David Wilson
Former choreographer	Jeffrey Buttle, Christopher Dean, Lori Nichol, Kurt Browning, Osborne Colson, Mark Hird
Skating club	The Granite Club
Training locations	Canton, Michigan, U.S.
Former training locations	Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, U.S.; Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S.
Began skating	1996
World standing	5 (As of December 17, 2016[ref])
ISU personal best scores
Combined total	295.27 2013 Trophée Eric Bompard
Short program	99.76 2016-17 Grand Prix Final
Free skate	203.99 2016 Four Continents
Medal record Figure skating: Men's singles and Team Representing  Canada Event 1st 2nd 3rd Winter Olympics 0 2 0 World Championships 3 2 0 Four Continents Championships 3 0 0 Grand Prix Final 2 1 1 World Junior Championships 0 1 0 World Team Trophy 0 2 1 Total 8 8 2 Winter Olympics 2014 Sochi Team 2014 Sochi Singles World Championships 2011 Moscow Singles 2012 Nice Singles 2013 London Singles 2009 Los Angeles Singles 2010 Turin Singles Four Continents Championships 2009 Vancouver Singles 2012 Colorado Springs Singles 2016 Taipei Singles Grand Prix Final 2010–11 Beijing Singles 2011–12 Quebec Singles 2013–14 Fukuoka Singles 2012–13 Sochi Singles World Junior Championships 2007 Oberstdorf Singles

Patrick Lewis Wai-Kuan Chan (born December 31, 1990) is a Canadian figure skater. He is the 2014 Olympic silver medalist in the men's and team events, a three-time World champion (2011, 2012, 2013), a two-time Grand Prix Final champion (2010 and 2011), a three-time Four Continents champion (2009, 2012, 2016), and a nine-time Canadian national champion (2008–2014, 2016–2017).

On April 27, 2011, Chan set a new world record of 93.02 points for the short program. On April 28, 2011, Chan then set a new world record for his free skating, receiving an overall score of 280.98. In recognition, Chan was named the recipient of the prestigious Lou Marsh Award as Canada's top athlete.

Patrick Lewis Wai-Kuan Chan was born December 31, 1990 in Ottawa, Ontario. He has no siblings. His parents, Lewis Chan, a lawyer, and Karen, immigrated to Canada from Hong Kong. Arriving at the age of 4, Lewis grew up in Montreal, Quebec and pursued table tennis, golf and weight-lifting. Karen, who won both singles and doubles tennis championships in her native city, moved to Canada in her 20s in order to continue her studies.

Chan is of Han Chinese descent. His Chinese name is Chan Wai-Kuan. At the age of 5, Chan showed talent in downhill skiing, but focused on other sports after his family moved to Toronto. He has an enduring interest in many sports, including taekwondo, tennis, golf and mountain climbing.

Chan is fluent in English, French, and Cantonese. His parents wanted him to be multilingual, so at home his father spoke French to him, his mother Cantonese, and he learned English from his daily life in Canada. Chan graduated from École secondaire Étienne-Brûlé, a French-language school in North York, Toronto in 2009, prolonging his high school education by an extra year because of his skating. After Chan became national champion, the school created an annual sporting award in his honour. Chan said he planned to enroll in college in September 2011 and considered pursuing a business degree. He decided to study international economics at Colorado College, taking one course at a time so as to facilitate his training. He intends to study social sciences at the University of Toronto starting in the fall of 2014.