Kim Yuna
Kim Yu- na ( born September 5, 1990 in Bucheon, Gyeonggi -do) is a South Korean figure skater who starts in a single run. She is the Olympic champion of 2010 and the 2009 World Champion and 2013. According to the silver medal at the Olympic Games Kim announced her career end.
Life
Kim was born on September 5, 1990 in Bucheon and moved at the age of six years with her family to Gunpo. Currently she lives in Artesia, California.
In May 2008, Kim was baptized Roman Catholic together with her mother, she took it to the Holy Name "Stella". Her father and older sister have no religion.
In 2009, Kim enrolled in Seoul for sports studies at the University of Korea.
The official transcription of her name from Korean would be ' Kim Yeon- a ". After a not so far confirmed rumor, her mother decided to write the name as ' Yun -a '. The officer wrote this but incorrectly as "Yu -Na ".
Career
Kim started at the age of seven years with the figure skating. My coach at the time Jong- Hyeon Ryu realized by this time that Kim would be a world-class runner and advised her mother to let her daughter continue with the training. In 2002 she took up at an international competition for the first time. A year later she became the first South Korean champion in the seniors this title she defended three times until 2006. 2005 she became Junior World silver medalist Mao Asada and behind 2006 Ljubljana finally Junior World Champion in front of the Japanese.
In the summer of 2006, Kim went to the Toronto Cricket, Skating and Curling Club to Canada to prepare there on their first Senior season. Her coach was there from March 2007 to August 2010 Brian Orser.
In their first season in the senior Kim already managed their international breakthrough. She won the Grand Prix Final. At their first World Cup, she won the bronze medal in Tokyo in 2007 after the two Japanese women Miki Ando and Mao Asada. She set a world record points in the short program.
In the following season they defended in December 2007 her gold medal at the Grand Prix Final. At the World Championships she won the bronze medal as last year.
At the Grand Prix Final 2008 she succumbed to Mao Asada and won the silver medal. At the Four Continents Championship 2009 in Vancouver but she could beat Asada, Joannie Rochette as well, and thus won their first title in this competition.
At the World Championships in Los Angeles, she improved her own record points in the short program by almost four points. She showed it a triple flip- triple toe loop combination, a triple lutz and a double axel. The freestyle won Kim, was becoming the first South Korean figure skating world champion and presented with 207.71 points overall points a new world record. It was the first time since the introduction of the new rating system that a skater had reached the two hundred -point mark.
At the beginning of the season 2009/2010 Kim improved in the Trophée Eric Bompard the points world record in freestyle and Appreciation at Skate America and the points world record in the short program. Both Grand Prix competitions they could decide for themselves. Thus, they qualified for the Grand Prix Final, which they won in her career for the third time.
As reigning World Champion, Grand Prix Final champion and world record holder Kim points was considered the favorite for the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver. As main rival Mao Asada was. However, your, Kim no chance. In the short program she set a new world record of 78.50 points and the free skate of 150.06 points. It showed in the composed by her choreographer David Wilson freestyle to Piano Concerto in F by George Gershwin, a triple Lutz- triple toe loop combination, a triple flip, a double axel - double toe loop - double Rittberger combination, a double -Axel - triple toe loop combination, a triple Salchow, a triple lutz and a double axel. Thus they became the first South Korean Olympic gold in figure skating and improved her own world record by a total of 18 points to 228.56 points. It was the first Olympic medal for South Korea in the Winter Games outside the speed skating and short track.
After her Olympic victory, Kim had to fight at the World Championships in Turin with motivation problems. After the short program she was only in seventh place, but then won the long program and therefore still have the silver medal behind Mao Asada.
In the season 2010/2011 Kim took part in a Grand Prix competitions. At the World Championships 2011 in Moscow, Kim was despite a mistake in the short program just ahead of Miki Ando in the lead, has had to her after the free skate but narrowly beaten and won silver. In October 2011, Kim announced a one-year break from competition. In the 2012/2013 season she was again the Grand Prix in order to concentrate on the World Cup 2013 in London ( Ontario) can, at which she won her second title on March 16.
At the Olympic Games in 2014 she was able to score in the short program and the free skate was present in the lead. There, they had only the Russian Adelina Sotnikowa beaten, but was able to not defend its title. The placement Sotnikowas before Kim broke international incomprehension. After the silver medal she announced her career end.