Lee June-hyoung

This is a Korean name; the family name is Lee.
Lee June-hyoung

Lee at the Incheon Airport, 2014
Personal information
Native name
Country represented South Korea South Korea
Born (1996-10-28) October 28, 1996
Seoul, South Korea
Home town Uijeongbu, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 8 12 in)
Coach Shin Hea-Sook
Former coach Chi Hyun-jung, Oh Ji Youn
Choreographer Jeffrey Buttle
Tom Dickson
Lee Kyu-hyun
Former choreographer Cindy Stuart
Christopher Conte
Shin Yea-ji
Training locations Seoul
Former training locations Taeneung
ISU personal best scores
Combined total 203.92
2014 JGP Croatia
Short program 70.05
2016 World Figure Skating Championships
Free skate 135.93
2014 JGP France

Lee June-hyoung (Hangul:이준형) (born October 28, 1996) is a South Korean figure skater. He is the 2014 JGP France champion and a three-time South Korean national champion (2013, 2015, 2016). He is the first South Korean male figure skater who stood on the podium and won gold at ISU events. Also, he is the first Korean male skater to qualify for the ISU Junior Grand Prix Final.[1]

Personal life

Lee June-hyoung was born in Seoul, South Korea.[2] His mother, Oh Ji Youn, is a figure skating coach.[3][4][5]

Career

Childhood

Lee was coached by his mother from the age of seven to 14.[3]

2010–11

Chi Hyun-jung has been his coach since 2010.[6] Lee placed 3rd at both the Korean Junior Grand Prix qualification trials and the Korean Nationals.

2011–12

The 2011–12 season was Lee's breakthout season.[7] Lee included 5 different triple jumps in his program and improved jump consistency.[6] In August, He was selected to represent Team Korea by placing 2nd at the Korean Junior Grand Prix qualification trials. At Asian Trophy, he placed 2nd at the junior discipline. Lee debuted in the 2011–12 Junior Grand Prix series at JGP Latvia and placed 4th. At the second assignment in Milan, Italy, he won bronze and became the first South Korean male figure skater to medal at an ISU event.[8] He won the Korean Ranking competition in November[7] and placed 4th at the Winter Youth Olympics. He placed 18th at the World Junior Championships.[9]

2012–13

He started the season with a new free program, "Queen medley", but returned to his previous season's free program, "The Barber of Seville", at his first Junior Grand Prix event. He won South Korean Nationals, but could not compete at the Senior World Championships because he did not meet the minimum technical score requirement for the event. He placed 13th at the World Junior Championships. In February, he landed an triple Axel jump during the short program segment at the Four Continents Championships.

2013–14

In the middle of the season, he changed his free skating from "The Planets" to another one. The new program, "The Phantom of the Opera", was shown at the Korean Nationals. At the nationals, with total score of 206.88, Lee became the first Korean male skater who scored over 200 points in domestic competitions. In February, He placed 14th at the 2013 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships in Taipei. In March, he placed 16th at the World Junior Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria.

2014–15

Competing in the 2014–15 JGP series, Lee won gold at his first event, JGP France, with overall score of 203.81.[2] This accomplishment made him the first South Korean male figure skater winning at an ISU event.[10] By placing 3rd at JGP Croatia, he qualified for ISU Junior Grand Prix Final for the first time as a Korean male skater.[11][12][2] In December, at the ISU Junior Grand Prix Final in Barcelona, Spain, he placed fifth in the short program and sixth in the free skating to place sixth place overall.[13]

In January, Lee beat his rival, Kim Jin-seo to win his second national title.[14] He was nominated to the South Korean team for the 2015 Four Continents Championship. At the competition, he placed fifteenth in the short program and nineteenth in the free skate to place eighteenth overall.[15] He placed 19th at the 2015 World Figure Skating Championships.[9]

2015–16

Lee started the 2015–16 figure skating season by placing 10th at the 2015 Finlandia Trophy. He participated in the 2015 Skate Canada International with his new coach Shin Hea-Sook and placed 12th.[16][17]

Programs

Season Short program Free skating Exhibition
2015–16
[18][2]
  • 눈 먼 사랑 (Blind Love)
    by Ensemble Sinawi
    choreo. by Lee June-hyoung[19]

2014–15
[20]
2013–14
[21][22]
  • Para Tí
    by Joshua Bell, Tiempo Libre
    choreo. by Cindy Stuart

2012–13
[23][24]

2011–12
[25]
2010–11
2009–10
2008–09

Competitive highlights

GP: Grand Prix; CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix

2011–12 to present

International[9]
Event 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16
Worlds 19th 24th
Four Continents 17th 14th 18th 16th
GP Skate Canada 12th
CS Finlandia Trophy 10th
Asian Trophy 3rd 3rd 3rd
Triglav Trophy 5th 2nd
International: Junior[9]
Junior Worlds 18th 13th 16th
Youth Olympics 4th
JGP Final 6th
JGP Belarus 5th
JGP Croatia 3rd
JGP France 1st
JGP Italy 3rd
JGP Latvia 4th
JGP Mexico 6th
JGP Turkey 9th
JGP U.S. 5th
Asian Trophy 2nd J.
National[9]
South Korean 2nd 1st 2nd 1st 1st
TBD: Assigned, WD: Withdrew
J. = Junior level

2006–07 to 2010–11: Pre-international debut

National[9]
Event 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11
South Korean 1st N. 1st N. 2nd J. 1st J. 3rd
Levels: N. = Novice; J. = Junior

Detailed results

2015–16 season
Date Event Level SP FS Total
February 16–21, 2016 2016 Four Continents Championships Senior 67.35
10
113.57
19
180.92
16
January 8–10, 2016 2016 South Korean Championships Senior 75.10
1
148.62
1
223.72
1
October 30–November 1, 2015 2015 ISU Grand Prix Skate Canada Senior 47.19
12
104.86
12
152.05
12
October 8–11, 2015 2015 Finlandia Trophy Senior 57.07
11
115.90
10
172.92
10
2014–15 season
Date Event Level SP FS Total
April 15–19, 2015 2015 Triglav Trophy Senior 59.60
2
117.00
2
176.60
2
March 23–29, 2015 2015 World Championships Senior 64.51
24
133.01
18
197.52
19
February 9–15, 2015 2015 Four Continents Championships Senior 63.35
15
116.71
19
180.06
18
January 5–9, 2015 2015 South Korean Championships Senior 68.75
2
141.15
1
209.90
1
December 11–14, 2014 2014–15 Junior Grand Prix Final Junior 57.42
5
122.97
6
180.39
6
October 9–11, 2014 2014 ISU Junior Grand Prix, Croatia Junior 68.52
3
135.40
3
203.92
3
September 4–7, 2014 2014 ISU Junior Grand Prix, France Junior 67.88
1
135.93
1
203.81
1
August 8–10, 2014 2014 Asian Open Trophy Senior 66.67
3
140.12
2
206.79
3
2013–14 season
Date Event Level SP FS Total
March 12–14, 2014 2014 World Junior Championships Junior 58.11
18
111.89
15
170.00
16
January 22–25, 2014 2014 ISU Four Continents Championships Senior 57.65
19
126.49
12
184.14
14
January 3–5, 2014 2014 South Korean Championships Senior 67.30
4
139.58
1
206.88
2
September 25–28, 2013 2013 ISU Junior Grand Prix, Belarus Junior 60.51
5
113.90
5
174.41
5
September 4–7, 2013 2013 ISU Junior Grand Prix, Mexico Junior 62.27
5
108.12
6
170.39
6
August 8–11, 2013 2013 Asian Open Trophy Senior 60.65
3
118.31
3
178.96
3
2012–13 season
Date Event Level SP FS Total
Feb. 25 – Mar. 3, 2013 2013 World Junior Championships Junior 54.15
13
112.06
13
166.21
13
February 8–11, 2013 2013 Four Continents Championships Senior 55.63
18
120.76
16
176.39
17
January 4–6, 2013 2013 South Korean Championships Senior 60.80
1
122.88
1
183.68
1
September 19–22, 2012 2012 ISU Junior Grand Prix, Turkey Junior 44.04
11
102.05
8
146.09
9
Aug. 29 – Sep. 2, 2012 2012 ISU Junior Grand Prix, USA Junior 53.38
5
103.07
5
156.45
5
August 8–12, 2012 2012 Asian Figure Skating Trophy Senior 51.04
2
92.16
3
143.20
3
2011–12 season
Date Event Level  SP FS Total
Feb. 27 – Mar. 3, 2012 2012 World Junior Championships Junior 55.74
15
103.19
18
158.93
18
January 14–22, 2012 2012 Winter Youth Olympics Junior 50.93
7
110.06
4
160.99
4
January 7–8, 2012 2012 South Korean Championships Senior 59.89
2
120.94
2
180.83
2
October 5–8, 2011 2011 ISU Junior Grand Prix, Italy Junior 57.98
4
118.50
4
176.48
3
Aug. 31 – Sep. 3, 2011 2011 ISU Junior Grand Prix, Latvia Junior 58.06
3
113.69
5
171.75
4
August 23–25, 2011 2011 Asian Figure Skating Trophy Junior 51.23
3
108.63
3
159.86
2
2010–11 season
Date Event Level SP FS Total
January 14–16, 2011 2011 South Korean Championships Senior 52.13
3
107.15
3
159.28
3
2009–10 season
Date Event Level  SP FS Total
January 9–10, 2010 2010 South Korean Championships Junior 36.94
2
73.94
1
110.88
1
2008–09 season
Date Event Level  SP FS Total
January 9–10, 2009 2009 South Korean Championships Junior 38.75
3
79.26
2
117.56
2

References

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