Denis Yuryevich Ten (Денис Юрьевич Тен; 13 June 1993 – 19 July 2018) was a Kazakh figure skater.[1]
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| Full name | Denis Yuryevich Ten |
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| Country represented | Kazakhstan |
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| Born | (1993-06-13)13 June 1993
Almaty, Kazakhstan |
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| Died | 19 July 2018(2018-07-19) (aged 25)
Almaty, Kazakhstan |
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| Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) |
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| Coach | Frank Carroll, Nikolai Morozov |
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| Former coach | Rafael Arutyunyan,
Elena Buianova,
Tatiana Tarasova |
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| Choreographer | David Wilson |
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| Former choreographer | Nikolai Morozov. Stéphane Lambiel,
Lori Nichol,
Elena Buianova,
Tatiana Tarasova,
Irina Tagaeva,
Mikhail Pochitalin |
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| Skating club | Kiyal Almaty |
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| Training locations | El Segundo, California,
Almaty |
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| Former training locations | Hackensack, New Jersey,
Novogorsk
Moscow |
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| Began skating | 1998 |
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| World standing | 31 (2017–18)
12 (2016–17)
3 (2015–16)
3 (2014–15)
5 (2013–14)
6 (2012–13)
16 (2011–12)
25 (2010–11)
18 (2009–10)
28 (2008–09)
81 (2007–08) |
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| Combined total | 289.46
2015 Four Continents |
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| Short program | 97.61
2015 Four Continents |
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| Free skate | 191.85
2015 Four Continents |
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Ten was the 2014 Olympic bronze medalist, a two-time World medalist (silver in 2013, bronze in 2015), the 2015 Four Continents champion, the 2017 Winter Universiade champion, and a five-time national champion of Kazakhstan.
On 19 July 2018, Ten was stabbed in the thigh by two men who were trying to steal his car mirrors.[1] Ten suffered blood loss and died in the Central Clinical Hospital in Almaty, aged 25.[2]
