Knowra Nathan Chen Nathan Chen Nathan Chen is an American figure skater who won three consecutive world championships from 2018 to 2021 and the men’s singles gold medal at the 2022 Winter Olympics.
2022 Winter Olympics : The Winter Olympic Games held in Beijing, China, from February 4 to 20, 2022. Chen won men’s singles gold at these Games after rebounding from a short-program mistake in 2018.
Figure skating jumps : A family of airborne elements in figure skating, including the toe loop, Salchow, loop, flip, Lutz, and Axel. Chen built programs around multiple high-value quadruple jumps.
Rafael Arutyunyan : An Armenian-American figure-skating coach who has trained numerous elite skaters. Arutyunyan coached Chen through his rise to Olympic and world titles.
Quadruple jump revolution : The rapid increase in quadruple jumps performed in elite men’s figure skating during the 2010s and 2020s. Chen’s multi-quad programs helped make extreme jump content a standard feature of title contention.
2018 Winter Olympics : The Winter Olympic Games held in PyeongChang, South Korea, in February 2018. Chen’s fifth-place finish after the short program became a striking contrast to his later Olympic victory.
Quadruple jump : A figure-skating jump with four rotations in the air, except the Axel, which has four and a half. Chen became known for landing several kinds of quadruple jumps in one program.
Shae-Lynn Bourne : A Canadian former ice dancer, choreographer, and figure-skating coach. Bourne choreographed several programs that broadened Chen’s performance style.
Men’s singles figure skating : The figure-skating discipline in which male competitors perform individual short and free programs. Chen’s Olympic and world titles belong to this discipline’s competitive history.
World Figure Skating Championships : An annual international figure-skating championship organized by the International Skating Union. Chen won the men’s title three times in succession, from 2018 through 2021.
International Skating Union Judging System : The scoring system used in international figure skating, awarding points for technical elements and program components. Its element values rewarded Chen’s technically demanding jump layouts.
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