Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective
Kim Min-chae
South Korean figure skater (born 2006) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Remove ads
Kim Min-chae (Korean: 김민채; born 26 February 2006) is a South Korean figure skater. She is the 2022 CS Denis Ten Memorial Challenge champion and the 2024 CS Nebelhorn Trophy bronze medalist.[1][2]
Remove ads
Personal life
Career
Summarize
Perspective
Early career
Kim began skating in 2014 and was initially coached by Lee Bo-ram.[4]
Kim made her international debut as an advanced novice at the 2018 Crystal Skate of Romania, which she won.[5] She then went on to win the silver medal at the 2019 Korean Junior Championships.[6]
Her second international competition was as a junior at the 2019 Prague Ice Cup, the following season, where she won the silver medal.[7] Debuting on the senior National level, Kim place twelfth at the 2020 Korean Championships.[1]
The following year, Kim placed tenth at the 2021 Korean Championships.[1]
Prior to the 2021–22 figure skating season, Park Bit-na became her coach.[8]
2021–22 season
Debuting on the 2021–22 ISU Junior Grand Prix, Kim finished fourth at 2021 Junior Grand Prix Slovenia. Although assigned to compete at 2021 Junior Grand Prix Poland, Kim was forced to withdraw after rupturing a disk in her lower back.[4] Despite this, Kim went on to compete at the 2022 Korean Championships in January, where she finished seventh.[1]
Following the season, Kim left coach, Park Bit-na to train under Shin Hea-sook.[8][3]
2022–23 season
Kim competed on the 2022–23 ISU Junior Grand Prix at 2022 Junior Grand Prix Poland I and 2022 Junior Grand Prix Italy, finishing thirteenth and eighth, respectively.[1]
Kim made her senior international debut at the 2022 CS Denis Ten Memorial Challenge, where she won the gold medal. She then went on to finish nineteenth at the 2022 CS Ice Challenge.[1] At the 2023 Korean Championships, Kim finished the season with a thirteenth-place finish.[1] She returned to coach, Park Bit-na, following the event.[9]
2023–24 season
Beginning the season at the 2023 CS Nebelhorn Trophy, Kim won the bronze medal.[1] She went on to finish twenty-fifth at the annual South Korean Ranking Competition. She did not compete at the 2024 South Korean Championships.[2]
2024–25 season
Prior to the start of the season, Kim left Park Bit-na and began training under Chi Hyun-jung and Kim Jin-seo.[10]
Kim was assigned to compete at 2024 Skate America and 2024 Cup of China, acting as a replacement to Lee Hae-in and Ava Marie Ziegler, respectively.[11][12][13] Kim would finish tenth at Skate America and eleventh at the Cup of China. One week following the latter event, she would place eighteenth at the South Korean Ranking Competition.[1]
Kim then finished the season by placing twenty-first at the 2025 South Korean Championships.[2]
2025–26 season
Kim started the season in August by competing at the 2025 CS Cranberry Cup International, where she finished in ninth place.[1]
Remove ads
Programs
Remove ads
Competitive highlights
CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix
Remove ads
Detailed results
Summarize
Perspective
Current personal best scores are highlighted in bold.
Senior results
Junior results
Remove ads
References
External links
Wikiwand - on
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Remove ads