Nathan Chen

About Nathan Chen

Chinese-American figure skater who became a three-time U.S. Junior Champion and won gold at the ISU Junior Grand Prix in Mexico in 2013. He won the Grand Prix Final for the 2017-18 season. At the 2018 Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the team figure skating event.

Nathan Wei Chen is an American figure skater. He is the 2022 Olympic champion, a three-time World champion, the 2017 Four Continents champion, a three-time Grand Prix Final champion, a ten-time Grand Prix medalist, and a six-time U.S. national champion. At the junior level, Chen is the 2015–16 Junior Grand Prix Final champion, 2013–14 Junior Grand Prix Final bronze medalist, 2014 World Junior bronze medalist, and a six-time Junior Grand Prix medalist. Chen also helped the U.S. Olympic team win the bronze medal in the 2018 team event, and the silver medal in the 2022 team event. Regarded as one of the greatest figure skaters of all time, Chen has broken multiple world records in his career and currently holds the all-time world records for short program, free program, and combined total scores. He is widely recognized for performing the most technically difficult programs in the world.

Former coach	Marina Zoueva, Evgenia Chernyshova, Stephanie Grosscup, Karel Kovar, Amanda Kovar
Former training locations	Salt Lake City, Utah, Lake Arrowhead, California, Artesia, California, Canton, Michigan, Lakewood, California, New Haven, Connecticut, Cromwell, Connecticut
Born	May 05, 1999, Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.
Began skating	2002
Training locations	Irvine, California
Official Website	http://figureskatersonline.com/nathanchen/
Country represented	United States
Full name	Nathan Wei Chen
Former choreographer	Samuel Chouinard, Marie-France Dubreuil, Lori Nichol, Nadia Kanaeva, Marina Zoueva, Nikolai Morozov, Phillip Mills, Stephanie Grosscup, Evgenia Chernyshova
Season's bests	1 (2021–22), 1 (2020–21), 1 (2019–20), 1 (2018–19), 1 (2017–18), 3 (2016–17), 25 (2015–16), 33 (2014–15), 29 (2013–14), 24 (2012–13)
World standing	1 (As of March 20, 2022), 1 (2020–21), 1 (2019–20), 1 (2018–19), 3 (2017–18), 10 (2016–17), 37 (2015–16), 34 (2014–15), 46 (2013–14), 128 (2012–13)
Combined total	335.30 (WR), 2019–20 Grand Prix Final
Coach	Rafael Arutyunyan, Nadia Kanaeva, Vera Arutyunyan
Skating club	Salt Lake Figure Skating
Choreographer	Shae-Lynn Bourne
Short program	113.97 (WR), 2022 Winter Olympics
Free skate	224.92 (WR), 2019–20 Grand Prix Final

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Trivia

He had one of his best combined scores, 222.0, at the JGP Austria 2012 competition. He also became the first skater ever to land 5 quadruple jumps in one program.

Nathan Chen before fame

Before opting to focus on figure skating, he studied ballet and competitive gymnastics.

Achievement of Nathan Chen

At the JGP Austria 2012 tournament, he got one of his greatest combined scores, 222.0. He was also the first skater to land five quadruple leaps in a single program. He went to Yale University to study.

Salary 2020

Not known

Net Worth 2020

Undisclosed

Nathan Chen family life

Chen Wei is his Chinese name. He had four elder siblings when he was growing up.

Associations of Nathan Chen

Both he and Ilia Kulik were Junior Champions.

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