Chen Yudong

In this Chinese name, the family name is Chen.
Chen Yudong
Chen at the 2019 World Junior Championships
Native name陈昱东 (Chinese)
Born (2004-09-28) 28 September 2004 (age 20)
Qiqihar, Heilongjiang, China
Height1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in)
Figure skating career
Country China
DisciplineMen's singles
CoachFang Dan
Rafael Arutyunyan
Skating clubQiqihar Winter Sports Center
Began skating2007
Chinese Championships
Gold medal – first place 2022 Chengde Singles
Gold medal – first place 2023 Chengde Singles

Chen Yudong (simplified Chinese: 陈昱东; traditional Chinese: 陳昱東; pinyin: Chén Yùdōng; born 28 September 2004) is a Chinese figure skater. He is the 2020 Cup of China bronze medalist, a two-time Chinese national champion (2022-23), and a two-time Chinese junior national champion (2020, 2022).

Personal life

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Chen was born on September 28, 2004 in Qiqihar, Heilongjiang, China. In addition to figure skating, he also enjoys singing and dancing.[1]

Career

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Early career

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Chen began figure skating in 2007. His first coach was Zhang Chunling.[2]

He debuted at the 2016 Chinese Championships, where he finished thirteenth.[3] Chen would go on to finish fourth at nationals in 2017 and 2018.[3]

Before debuting internationally, Chen would move to Beijing, where Li Wei became his coach.[4]

Junior career

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2018–19 season: First Junior Worlds

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For the 2018–19 figure skating season, Chen was sent to California to temporarily train under Rafael Arutyunyan.[5]

Making his international debut at the 2018 Golden Spin of Zagreb, Chen won the silver medal on the junior level. He then went on to take bronze at the 2019 Russian–Chinese Youth Games.[3]

He was ultimately assigned to the 2019 Junior World Championships where he finished in twenty-fifth place after the short program and did not advance to the free skate.[6]

2019–20 season: Junior Grand Prix debut

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Chen debuted in the Junior Grand Prix circuit and was assigned to the Courchevel[7] and Egna/Neumkart,[8] where he finished in ninth and sixth place, respectively.[9] He also took gold at the 2020 Chinese Junior Championships.[3]

He was then assigned to compete at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics in Lausanne, where he finished in sixth place.[10]

Senior career

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2020–21 season: Senior debut

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With the 2020–21 figure skating season having to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, senior skaters were invited to a maximum of one Grand Prix event, based largely on geographic location.[11] Chen was invited to the 2020 Cup of China, where he finished in third place behind Jin Boyang and Yan Han.[12]

2021–22 season: Senior international debut

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Chen began the season by competing at the 2021 Asian Open Trophy, where he finished ninth.[3]

Although assigned to compete at the 2021 Cup of China as his Grand Prix event of the season, the event was cancelled. He would ultimately be reassigned to its replacement event, the 2021 Gran Premio d'Italia, where he finished in tenth place.[13]

2022–23 season

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Chen, still being age-eligible for the junior grand prix circuit, was assigned to the Solidarity Cup 2022, where he finished in second place.[14] Chen was assigned to compete in the junior and senior levels in the 2022 Asian Open Figure Skating Trophy. He finished first at both levels.[15][16] Having met the minimum technical score requirements, Chen was entered to compete at the 2023 Four Continents Championships.

After winning his first national title at the 2022 Chinese Figure Skating Championships, he went on to compete at the 2023 Four Continents Championships, where he finished fifteenth.[3] At the 2023 World Junior Championships, he placed fourteenth after the short program, but had a strong free skate, finishing fifth in the segment and eighth overall.[17]

2023–24 season

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Chen started the season by competing on the 2023–24 ISU Junior Grand Prix circuit, placing seventh at 2023 JGP Hungary. Going on to compete at 2023 JGP Poland, Chen placed fourth in the short program. During the free skate, Chen had a hard fall on the opening triple axel, seemingly injuring himself as he began limping after getting up. Despite this, Chen continued his free skate, making several mistakes throughout the program. He would place twenty-second in that competition segment and would drop to seventeenth place overall.[3][18]

At the 2023 Chinese Junior Championships, Chen won the silver medal behind Tian Tonghe but would go on to win gold at the senior-level championships. Going on to compete on the junior level of the 2024 Chinese National Winter Games.[3]

He would then close his season by finishing ninth at the 2024 Four Continents Championships in Shanghai.[9]

2024–25 season

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In early October 2024, it was announced that Chen had left longtime coach, Li Wei and had started training under Dan Fang.[1]

He went on to start the season by finishing sixth at the 2024 Shanghai Trophy.[3]

Programs

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Season Short program Free skating Exhibition
2024–2025
[1]
2023–2024
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2022–2023
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  • Micmacs
    • Du Plomb Dans La Cervelle
    • Et Eustache
    • Droit de Cite
    • Ca Deroule
      by Raphaël Beau and Max Steiner
      choreo. by Elvin Wong
2021–2022
[21]
2020–2021
[2]
  • Micmacs
    • Du Plomb Dans La Cervelle
    • Et Eustache
    • Droit de Cite
    • Ca Deroule
      by Raphaël Beau and Max Steiner
      choreo. by Elvin Wong
2019–2020
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2018–2019
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Competitive highlights

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Competition placements at senior level [3]
Season 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24 2024–25
Four Continents Championships 15th 9th
Chinese Championships 1st 1st
GP Cup of China 3rd TBD
GP Italy 10th
Asian Open Trophy 9th 1st
Shanghai Trophy 6th
Competition placements at junior level [3]
Season 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2022–23 2023–24
Winter Youth Olympics 6th
World Junior Championships 25th 8th
Chinese Championships (Senior) 13th 4th 4th
Chinese Championships (Junior) 1st 1st 2nd
JGP France 9th
JGP Hungary 7th
JGP Italy 6th
JGP Poland 2nd 18th
Alpen Trophy 2nd
Asian Open Trophy 1st 1st
Golden Spin of Zagreb 2nd
National Winter Games 1st
Russian–Chinese Winter Youth Games 3rd

Detailed results

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ISU personal best scores in the +5/-5 GOE System [23]
Segment Type Score Event
Total TSS 218.66 2024 Four Continents Championships
Short program TSS 78.79 2021 Gran Premio d'Italia
TES 44.32 2024 Four Continents Championships
PCS 35.90 2021 Gran Premio d'Italia
Free skating TSS 148.08 2022 JGP Poland I
TES 86.47 2022 JGP Poland I
PCS 70.86 2019 JGP Italy

Senior level

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Results in the 2015–16 season [3]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Dec 26–27, 2015 China 2016 Chinese Championships 11 52.23 13 107.40 13 159.63
Results in the 2016–17 season [3]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Dec 24–25, 2016 China 2017 Chinese Championships 4 57.69 4 120.81 4 178.50
Results in the 2017–18 season [3]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Dec 23–24, 2017 China 2018 Chinese Championships 2 67.38 4 133.89 4 201.27
Results in the 2020–21 season [3]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Nov 6–8, 2020 China 2020 Cup of China 3 75.74 3 150.47 3 226.21
Results in the 2021–22 season [3]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Oct 13–17, 2021 China 2021 Asian Open Trophy 7 66.37 10 81.98 9 148.35
Nov 5–7, 2021 Italy 2021 Gran Premio d'Italia 8 78.79 10 122.17 10 200.96
Results in the 2022–23 season [3]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Sep 7–9, 2022 Indonesia 2022 Asian Open Trophy 1 66.19 1 139.52 1 204.82
Jan 11–13, 2023 China 2022 Chinese Championships 2 68.77 1 124.23 1 193.00
Feb 7–12, 2023 United States 2023 Four Continents Championships 15 67.93 16 116.48 15 184.41
Results in the 2023–24 season [3]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Dec 22–24, 2023 China 2023 Chinese Championships 1 79.03 1 141.03 1 220.06
Jan 30 – Feb 4, 2024 China 2024 Four Continents Championships 9 78.74 13 139.92 9 218.66
Results in the 2024–25 season [3]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Oct 3–5, 2024 China 2024 Shanghai Trophy 5 77.97 6 144.36 6 222.33

Junior level

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Results in the 2018–19 season [3]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Nov 12–18, 2018 Austria 2018 Alpen Trophy 1 63.94 2 115.26 2 179.20
Dec 5–8, 2018 Croatia 2018 Golden Spin of Zagreb 2 60.63 2 105.62 2 166.25
Dec 14–18, 2018 Russia 2018 Russian–Chinese Winter Youth Games 3 68.61 3 127.13 3 195.74
Mar 4–10, 2019 Croatia 2019 World Junior Championships 25 60.06 – – 25 60.06
Results in the 2019–20 season [3]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Aug 21–24, 2019 France 2019 JGP France 7 62.79 9 112.88 9 175.67
Sep 10–15, 2019 China 2020 Chinese Championships (Junior) 1 66.67 1 113.52 1 180.19
Oct 2–5, 2019 Italy 2019 JGP Italy 9 64.93 5 140.23 6 205.16
Oct 30 – Nov 1, 2019 China 2019 Asian Open Trophy 1 58.48 1 109.31 1 167.79
Jan 10–15, 2020 Switzerland 2020 Winter Youth Olympics 10 57.31 6 127.29 6 184.60
Results in the 2022–23 season [3]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Sep 28 – Oct 1, 2022 Poland 2022 JGP Poland I 16 53.76 1 148.08 2 201.84
Dec 7–9, 2022 Indonesia 2022 Asian Open Trophy 1 65.30 1 139.52 1 204.82
Dec 25–31, 2022 China 2022 Chinese Championships (Junior) 1 66.60 1 124.14 1 190.74
Feb 27 – Mar 5, 2023 Canada 2023 World Junior Championships 14 65.93 5 139.19 8 205.12
Results in the 2023–24 season [3]
Date Event SP FS Total
P Score P Score P Score
Sep 20–23, 2023 Hungary 2023 JGP Hungary 6 62.03 7 116.85 7 178.88
Sep 27–30, 2023 Poland 2023 JGP Poland 4 63.51 22 71.41 18 134.92
Nov 25–26, 2023 China 2023 Chinese Championships (Junior) 3 68.61 2 139.37 2 207.98
Jan 18–19, 2024 China 14th Chinese National Winter Games 1 68.08 1 144.90 1 212.98

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Yudong CHEN: 2024/2025". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 4 October 2024.
  2. ^ a b "Yudong CHEN: 2020/2021". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 14 May 2021.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w "Yudong Chen". SkatingScores.com.
  4. ^ a b "Yudong CHEN: 2018/2019". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 12 May 2019.
  5. ^ Chinese National Figure Skating Team (29 June 2018). "陈昱东、方帅赴美师从Rafael Arutyunyan进行外训" [Chen Yudong and Fang Shuai went to the United States for external training under Rafael Arutyunyan] (Weibo) (in Chinese).
  6. ^ "ISU World Junior Championships 2019". International Skating Union.
  7. ^ "ISU JGP Grand Prix de Courchevel 2019". International Skating Union.
  8. ^ "ISU JGP Egna-Neumarkt 2019". International Skating Union.
  9. ^ a b "Yudong CHEN: Competition Results". International Skating Union. International Skating Union. Retrieved 6 October 2024.
  10. ^ "Lausanne 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games". International Skating Union.
  11. ^ The Associated Press (4 August 2020). "Grand Prix figure skating series downsized to localized events". CBC.
  12. ^ "ISU GP SHISEIDO Cup of China 2020". International Skating Union.
  13. ^ "ISU GP Gran Premio D'Italia 2021". International Skating Union.
  14. ^ "ISU JGP Solidarity Cup 2022". International Skating Union.
  15. ^ "2022 Asian Open Figure Skating Trophy - Junior Men". Retrieved 4 March 2023.
  16. ^ "2022 Asian Open Figure Skating Trophy - Senior Men". Retrieved 4 March 2023.
  17. ^ "ISU World Junior Figure Skating Championships 2023 - Junior Men". www.isuresults.com. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
  18. ^ "Yudong CHEN (CHN) - Junior Men Free Skating - Gdansk 2023". YouTube. YouTube. Retrieved 6 October 2024.
  19. ^ "Yudong CHEN: 2023/2024". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 9 December 2023.
  20. ^ "Yudong CHEN: 2022/2023". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 15 February 2023.
  21. ^ "Yudong CHEN: 2021/2022". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 31 October 2021.
  22. ^ "Yudong CHEN: 2019/2020". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 30 June 2020.
  23. ^ "Personal Bests - Yudong Chen". International Skating Union.
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