Lee Hae-in (figure skater)
| Lee Hae-in | |
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 Lee at the 2019–20 Junior Grand Prix Final | |
| Personal information | |
| Native name | 이해인 (Korean) |
| Country represented |  South Korea |
| Born | April 16, 2005 Daejeon, South Korea |
| Home town | Seoul |
| Height | 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in) |
| Coach | Shin Hea-sook |
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| Choreographer |
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| Former choreographer | Alex Chang |
| Training locations | Seoul |
| Began skating | 2013 |
| World standing | 43 (As of March 7, 2020)[1] |
| ISU personal best scores | |
| Combined total | 203.40 2019 JGP Croatia |
| Short program | 70.08 2020 Junior Worlds |
| Free skate | 134.11 2019 JGP Croatia |
Lee Hae-in (Korean: 이해인; born 16 April 2005) is a South Korean figure skater. She is a two-time champion on the ISU Junior Grand Prix (2019 JGP Latvia, 2019 JGP Croatia) and a three-time South Korean national senior medalist (silver in 2020; bronze in 2019, 2021). She has competed at two World Junior Championships (2019, 2020), placing 8th and 5th, respectively.
She is currently the 29th highest ranked women's singles skater in world by the International Skating Union following the 2019-20 figure skating season.
Career[]
Lee Hae-in was born on 16 April 2005 in Daejeon, South Korea,[2] and began learning to skate in 2013.[2]
2017–2018 season[]
In January 2018 at the 2018 senior South Korean Championships, Lee was 9th.
2018–2019 season[]
In the 2018–2019 season, she debuted in the ISU Junior Grand Prix series.
In January 2019 at the 2019 senior South Korean Championships, she won the bronze medal (behind You Young and Lim Eun-soo).
In March 2019, Lee (along with You Young) represented South Korea at the 2019 World Junior Championships in Zagreb, Croatia. She ranked 14th in the short, which put her in only the third-to-last warm-up group for the free skate. In the free, she placed 7th, raising to 8th overall. (You Young was 11th in the short and 5th in the free skate and finished 6th.)
2019–2020 season[]
In July 2019, Lee Hae-in participated in the ISU Junior Grand Prix Korean qualification competition held in Taeneung, South Korea, where she came in first in the short program, free program, and overall. Following the competition, she was selected and assigned to two ISU Junior Grand Prix events, JGP Latvia and JGP Croatia.
At JGP Latvia, she became the third Korean woman ever to become an ISU Junior Grand Prix champion, following Yuna Kim and Kim Hae-jin. She finished third in the short program behind Maiia Khromykh and Daria Usacheva of Russia and the placed first in the free program to win the event with a combined total of 197.63 points, more than three points ahead of silver medalist Usacheva. She set personal best scores in the short program, free program, and overall. This event marked the first Junior Grand Prix event won by a Korean lady since Kim Hae-jin's victory at JGP Slovenia in 2012.
At JGP Croatia, she placed second in the short program with a new personal best, once again behind Daria Usacheva. After a strong free skate in which she once again scored a new personal best, she placed first overall with a new personal best overall score of 203.40, more than six points ahead of Usacheva in second and 21 points ahead of Anna Frolova in third. This marked the first time that Lee scored above 200 points in combined total. With two first-place finishes, Lee qualified to the 2019-20 Junior Grand Prix Final as the third-ranked skater, behind Kamila Valieva of Russia and Alysa Liu of the United States. She was the third Korean lady to ever qualify for the final after Kim Yuna and Kim Ye-lim.
At 2020 World Junior Championships, she earned a small silver medal for the short program behind Kamila Valieva earning gold and ahead of Daria Usacheva, who claimed bronze. Lee remarked that she had not expected to be in the top three after the short program, adding "I'm surprised with the score, it’s very high."[3] She also set a new season best for this short program. In the free skate, Lee fell on a downgraded triple flip attempt, resulting in a sixth-place finish in that segment and ranking fifth overall.[4]
2020–2021 season[]
With the pandemic greatly curtailing international opportunities for Korean skaters, Kim did not compete on either the Challenger or the Grand Prix circuits, and instead made her competitive debut at the 2021 South Korean Championships. Second in the short program and fourth in the free skate, she won the bronze medal overall. She was assigned to one of Korea's two ladies' berths at the 2021 World Championships in Stockholm, due to silver medalist being age-ineligible for international senior competition.[5]
Lee placed tenth at the World Championships, which, combined with Kim Ye-lim's eleventh place, qualified two berths for Korean ladies at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.[6][7]
Programs[]
| Season | Short program | Free skating | Exhibition |
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| 2020–2021 [8] |
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| 2019–2020 [9] |
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| 2018–2019 [10] |
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Competitive highlights[]
GP: Grand Prix; JGP: Junior Grand Prix
| International[2] | |||||
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| Event | 17–18 | 18–19 | 19–20 | 20–21 | 21–22 |
| Worlds | 10th | ||||
| GP France | TBD | ||||
| GP Skate Canada | TBD | ||||
| International: Junior[2] | |||||
| Junior Worlds | 8th | 5th | |||
| JGP Final | 5th | ||||
| JGP Austria | 4th | ||||
| JGP Croatia | 1st | ||||
| JGP Latvia | 1st | ||||
| JGP Slovenia | 3rd | ||||
| Asian Open | 1st | ||||
| Children of Asia ISG | 5th | ||||
| International: Novice[2] | |||||
| Asian Open | 1st | ||||
| National[2] | |||||
| South Korean | 9th | 3rd | 2nd | 3rd | |
| TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew | |||||
Detailed results[]
Senior level[]
| 2020–21 season | |||||
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| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total | |
| March 22–28, 2021 | 2021 World Championships | 8 68.94 |
11 124.50 |
10 193.44 | |
| February 24–26, 2021 | 2021 South Korean Championships | 2 69.22 |
4 126.18 |
3 195.40 | |
Junior level[]
Small medals for short and free programs awarded only at ISU Championships. Personal bests highlighted in bold.
| 2019–20 season | |||||
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| Date | Event | Level | SP | FS | Total |
| March 2–8, 2020 | 2020 World Junior Championships | Junior | 2 70.08 |
6 123.93 |
5 194.01 |
| January 3–5, 2020 | 2020 South Korean Championships | Senior | 2 68.20 |
2 136.36 |
2 204.56 |
| December 5-8, 2019 | 2019–20 Junior Grand Prix Final | Junior | 6 65.39 |
4 128.99 |
5 194.38 |
| September 25–28, 2019 | 2019 JGP Croatia | Junior | 2 69.29 |
1 134.11 |
1 203.40 |
| September 4–7, 2019 | 2019 JGP Latvia | Junior | 3 66.93 |
1 130.70 |
1 197.63 |
| 2018–19 season | |||||
| Date | Event | Level | SP | FS | Total |
| March 4-10, 2019 | 2019 World Junior Championships | Junior | 14 53.02 |
7 118.95 |
8 171.97 |
| February 13–15, 2019 | 2019 Winter Children of Asia ISG | Junior | 3 65.16 |
6 109.57 |
5 174.73 |
| January 11–13, 2019 | 2019 South Korean Championships | Senior | 3 63.66 |
3 124.07 |
3 187.73 |
| October 3–6, 2018 | 2018 JGP Slovenia | Junior | 4 63.01 |
3 117.47 |
3 180.48 |
| August 29 – September 1, 2018 | 2018 JGP Austria | Junior | 7 53.17 |
4 112.25 |
4 165.42 |
| August 1–3, 2018 | 2018 Asian Open Trophy | Junior | 2 59.34 |
3 110.24 |
1 169.58 |
| 2017–18 season | |||||
| Date | Event | Level | SP | FS | Total |
| January 5–7, 2018 | 2018 South Korean Championships | Senior | 7 57.64 |
10 107.60 |
9 165.24 |
| August 2–5, 2017 | 2017 Asian Open Trophy | Novice | - | 1 48.37 |
1 48.37 |
References[]
- ^ "ISU World Standings for Single & Pair Skating and Ice Dance : Ladies". International Skating Union. March 3, 2018.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f "Competition Results: Haein LEE". International Skating Union.
- ^ Slater, Paula (March 6, 2020). "Kamila Valieva front runner at Junior Worlds". Golden Skate.
- ^ Slater, Paula (March 7, 2020). "Kamila Valieva captures Junior World gold in season debut". Golden Skate.
- ^ Goh, ZK (26 February 2021). "Cha Jun-hwan and Kim Ye-lim win South Korean figure skating nationals". Olympic Channel.
- ^ Slater, Paula (March 26, 2021). "Anna Shcherbakova takes world title in FSR sweep". Golden Skate.
- ^ "Communication No. 2388". International Skating Union. April 1, 2021.
- ^ 이, 성필 (February 18, 2021). "女 피겨 에이스 임은수-김예림-이해인, 새 프로그램으로 종합선수권 준비". SPOTV NEWS (in Korean).
- ^ "Haein LEE: 2019/2020". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on June 30, 2020.CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
- ^ "Haein LEE: 2018/2019". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on March 31, 2019.CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
External links[]
- 2005 births
- South Korean female single skaters
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Daejeon
- People from Seoul