Yun Yea-ji
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Personal information | |
Country represented | South Korea |
Born | Seoul, South Korea | November 30, 1994
Home town | Anyang, Gyeonggi |
Height | 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in) |
Coach | Choi In-hwa |
Former coach | Brian Orser Ryu Jong-hyun Jung Min-joo |
Choreographer | David Wilson Jeffrey Buttle Shae-Lynn Bourne |
Began skating | 2002 |
ISU personal best scores | |
Combined total | 111.86 2011 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships |
Short program | 44.09 2009 JGP Turkey |
Free skate | 72.49 2011 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships |
Yun Yea-ji | |
Hangul | 윤예지 |
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Revised Romanization | Yun Yeji |
McCune–Reischauer | Yun Yeji |
Yun Yea-ji (also Yoon Yea-ji; born November 30, 1994) is a South Korean figure skater. She is the 2008 South Korean Junior champion and competed at two Four Continents Championships. Her best result was 12th at the 2011 Four Continents.
Personal life[]
Yun Yea-ji was born on November 30, 1994, in Seoul, South Korea.
Career[]
Early career[]
Early in her career, Yun performed in shows in South Korea, including Festa On Ice, a show headlined by Kim Yuna. Kim recommended Yun to her choreographer, David Wilson, and Wilson choreographed Yun's programs for the 2008–09 season. Yun also went to Toronto, Ontario, Canada for two months in the summer of 2008 and trained under Brian Orser, Kim's former coach.
She won the 2007 South Korean Novice National Championships. She did not compete internationally on the junior level in the 2007–08 season because she was not yet age-eligible. After her win at the 2008 South Korean Junior Championships, she was sent to the 2008 Triglav Trophy, where she won the event on the novice level.[1]
2008–09 season[]
She made her Junior Grand Prix debut at the 2008–09 ISU Junior Grand Prix event in Courchevel, France, the first event of the series. She placed 16th. Yun competed as a senior for the first time at the 2009 South Korean Championships and finished fourth overall with a score of 119.10. In the spring, she competed in the 2009 Triglav Trophy at the Junior level, and finished 6th.
2009–10 season[]
Yun was assigned to two events in the 2009–10 ISU Junior Grand Prix. At the event in Belarus, she placed 20th and earned personal bests scores in the short program, the free skate and the combined total. Those improved in the second Grand Prix event she competed in, set in Istanbul.
In January 2010, she competed in the 2010 South Korean Figure Skating Championships, where placed 9th overall scoring a total of 91.14 points after having problems with some of her jumps. However, she was selected to compete in the 2010 World Junior Figure Skating Championships, that were held in March 2010. She withdrew from the event.
2010–11 season[]
Yun competed at the 2011 South Korean Figure Skating Championships. Placing sixth in both the short program and the free skate, she placed sixth overall scoring 107.00 points. She was selected to compete at the 2011 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships.
Programs[]
Season | Short program | Free skating | Exhibition |
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2010–2012 [2][3] |
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2009–2010 [4] |
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2008–2009 |
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Competitive highlights[]
JGP: Junior Grand Prix
International[5] | ||||||
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Event | 06–07 | 07–08 | 08–09 | 09–10 | 10–11 | 11–12 |
Four Continents | 12th | 19th | ||||
Junior Worlds | WD | |||||
JGP Belarus | 12th | |||||
JGP France | 16th | |||||
JGP Turkey | 11th | |||||
Asian Trophy | 3rd J | |||||
Triglav Trophy | 1st N | 6th J | ||||
National[5] | ||||||
South Korean | 1st N | 1st J | 4th | 9th | 6th | 10th |
Levels – N: Novice; J: Junior. WD: Withdrew |
Detailed results[]
2010–11 season | |||||
Date | Event | Level | SP | FS | Total |
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February 15–20, 2011 | 2011 Four Continents Championships | Senior | 12 39.37 |
12 72.49 |
12 111.86 |
January 14–16, 2011 | 2011 South Korean Championships | Senior | 6 36.76 |
6 70.24 |
6 107.00 |
2009–10 season | |||||
Date | Event | Level | SP | FS | Total |
January 9–10, 2010 | 2010 South Korean Championships | Senior | 9 33.87 |
8 57.27 |
9 91.14 |
October 14–18, 2009 | 2009 Junior Grand Prix, Turkey | Junior | 8 44.09 |
17 66.27 |
11 110.36 |
September 23–27, 2009 | 2009 Junior Grand Prix, Belarus | Junior | 7 42.90 |
12 60.48 |
12 103.38 |
2008–2009 season | |||||
Date | Event | Level | SP | FS | Total |
April 1–4, 2009 | 2009 Triglav Trophy | Junior | 20 33.95 |
5 66.84 |
6 100.79 |
January 9–10, 2009 | 2009 South Korean Championships | Senior | 5 39.42 |
4 79.68 |
4 119.10 |
December 21–23, 2008 | Junior | 2 43.70 |
3 71.42 |
3 115.12 | |
September 24–28, 2008 | 2008 Junior Grand Prix, France | Junior | 10 40.36 |
19 58.54 |
16 98.90 |
2007–08 season | |||||
Date | Event | Level | SP | FS | Total |
April 2–5, 2008 | 2008 Triglav Trophy | Novice | 1 41.17 |
2 67.31 |
1 108.48 |
January 10–11, 2008 | Junior | 2 41.85 |
1 80.05 |
1 121.90 | |
2006–07 season | |||||
Date | Event | Level | SP | FS | Total |
January 9–10, 2007 | Novice | 1 35.64 |
1 55.90 |
1 91.54 |
References[]
- ^ TRIGLAV TROPHY 2008 - Novice Girls
- ^ "Yea-Ji YUN: 2011/2012". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on June 6, 2012.
- ^ "Yea-Ji YUN: 2010/2011". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on August 16, 2011.
- ^ "Yea-Ji YUN: 2009/2010". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on August 16, 2009.
- ^ a b "Competition Results: Yea-Ji YUN". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on April 22, 2014.
External links[]
Media related to Yun Yea-ji at Wikimedia Commons
- Yun Yea-ji at the International Skating Union
- Yun Yea-Ji at Tracings.net
- South Korean female single skaters
- Living people
- 1994 births
- Figure skaters from Seoul