Denis Ten
Denis Jurjewitsch Ten (Russian Денис Юрьевич Тен; * June 13, 1993 in Alma- Ata ) is a Kazakhstani figure skater who starts in a single run.
Career
Denis Ten (now Almaty) was born in Alma- Ata, is the Korean minority in Kazakhstan. His great-great grandfather Min -Ho Keung was Korean general.
Due to a competition of its music school, where he was a chorister, he visited in 2002 for the first time South Korea. At the age of ten he moved to Moscow to train at Jelena Wodoresowa can.
On 5 October 2006 he debuted with only 13 years on the international scene in The Hague. Two years later he won his first victory in Belarus in the Junior Grand Prix. It was the first victory of Kazakhs in a competition of international Skating Union. In his first World Championship in 2009 he reached the youngest participant at first surprising the 8th Place. A year later, he finished 11th place at his first Olympic Games. At the following World Cup he was 13 and moved then with his mother to California to train with Frank Carroll can. The World Cup 2011 ended ten in 14th place.
At the 2012 World Championships in Nice Ten reached the seventh place to be at this time best World Cup result and improved his personal best in freestyle and overall performance. He opened the long program with a quadruple toe loop successful, but stumbled out of the following triple axel. He recovered from this mistake and landed a strong triple Axel in combination with a double toe loop, the end of the free program, however, went out to him the power off and was followed by other minor bugs.
The final breakthrough came ten at the World Championships in 2013 in London, Canada. In the short program, he improved his personal best by nearly 14 points to 91.56 points and thus took second place in this segment. His good form he could save in the long program at this time. He pointed to Ludovic Bources soundtrack to The Artist among other things, a quadruple toe loop and a triple Axel - triple toe loop combination, and improved his personal Kürbestleistung at 174.92 points, with which he won the freestyle. This meant of course also a new personal record in the total output of 266.48 points and eventually secured him the silver medal, just over one point behind World Champion Patrick Chan. Tens first medal at a World Cup was also the first medal for Kazakhstan at the World Championships. At the Olympic Games 2014 Ten succeeded the next big success. After a ninth place in the short program, he could still win the bronze medal in the overall standings by an increase in the free skate.