Byun Ji-hyun
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Full name | Byun Ji-hyun |
Native name | 변지현 |
Born | Seoul, South Korea | March 9, 1999
Height | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) |
Figure skating career | |
Country | ![]() |
Skating club | Korea National Training Center |
Byun Ji-hyun (Korean: 변지현; born March 9, 1999) is a South Korean former competitive figure skater. She is the 2015 Volvo Open Cup bronze medalist.
On the junior level, she is the 2014 Ice Challenge silver medalist and the 2011 South Korean junior national bronze medalist.
She placed 7th at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics.
Career
[edit]In 2011, Byun became the South Korean junior national bronze medalist. The following season, she competed on the senior level at the South Korean Championships, finishing fourth.
2012–13 to 2014–15
[edit]Making her international debut, Byun placed 15th at the 2012–13 Junior Grand Prix (JGP) event in Lake Placid, New York.[1] She was 7th in the senior ranks at the 2013 South Korean Championships.
After placing 14th at the 2014 South Korean Championships, Byun competed at her first senior international, the 2014 Triglav Trophy, where she ranked 5th.[2]
In the 2014–15 season, she placed 10th competing as a senior at the Lombardia Trophy, an ISU Challenger Series event held in Milan. Two months later, she won her first junior international medal – silver at the Ice Challenge Leo Scheu Memorial.[3]
2015–16 season
[edit]Byun started her season by placing 4th at her JGP assignment in Zagreb, Croatia. She scored a new personal best, 148.13 points. In November, she was awarded her first senior international medal – bronze at the 2015 Volvo Open Cup, after placing second in the short program and fourth in the free skate.
Back in Korea, she won the bronze medal at 2015 KSU President Cup Ranking Competition.[4] She finished 10th at the 2016 South Korean Championships and was selected to compete at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics in Hamar, Norway.
Programs
[edit]Season | Short program | Free skating |
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2016–17 |
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2015–16 [5] |
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2014–15 | ||
2013–14 |
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2012–13 [6] |
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2011–12 |
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2010–11 |
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2009–10 |
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Competitive highlights
[edit]CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix
International[7] | |||||||
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Event | 10–11 | 11–12 | 12–13 | 13–14 | 14–15 | 15–16 | 16–17 |
CS Lombardia | 10th | ||||||
CS Ondrej Nepela | 7th | ||||||
Triglav Trophy | 5th | ||||||
Volvo Open Cup | 3rd | ||||||
International: Junior[7] | |||||||
Youth Olympics | 7th | ||||||
JGP Croatia | 4th | ||||||
JGP U.S. | 15th | ||||||
Ice Challenge | 2nd | ||||||
National | |||||||
South Korea | 3rd J | 4th | 7th | 14th | 29th | 10th | |
Team events | |||||||
Youth Olympics | 4th T 3rd P |
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J = Junior level T = Team result; P = Personal result. |
Detailed results
[edit]2016–17 season | |||||
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Date | Event | Level | SP | FS | Total |
September 29–October 1, 2015 | 2016 CS Ondrej Nepela Memorial | Senior | 3 57.76 |
8 91.87 |
7 149.63 |
2015–16 season | |||||
Date | Event | Level | SP | FS | Total |
February 12–21, 2016 | 2016 Winter Youth Olympic Games - Team Event | Junior | 3 99.94 |
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February 12–21, 2016 | 2016 Winter Youth Olympic Games | Junior | 5 56.25 |
8 87.45 |
7 143.70 |
January 8–10, 2016 | 2016 South Korean Championships | Senior | 5 56.95 |
14 95.88 |
10 152.83 |
November 4–8, 2015 | 2015 Volvo Open Cup | Senior | 2 53.80 |
4 88.71 |
3 142.51 |
October 7–11, 2015 | 2015 ISU Junior Grand Prix, Croatia | Junior | 6 50.69 |
3 97.44 |
4 148.13 |
2014–15 season | |||||
Date | Event | Level | SP | FS | Total |
January 7–9, 2015 | 2015 South Korean Championships | Senior | 29 39.78 |
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November 12–16, 2014 | 2014 Ice Challenge | Junior | 4 45.41 |
2 92.60 |
2 138.01 |
September 18–21, 2014 | 2014 CS Lombardia Trophy | Senior | 10 44.97 |
9 84.11 |
10 129.08 |
2013–14 season | |||||
Date | Event | Level | SP | FS | Total |
April 2–6, 2014 | 2014 Triglav Trophy | Senior | 8 42.33 |
4 82.55 |
5 124.88 |
January 3–5, 2014 | 2014 South Korean Championships | Senior | 16 46.30 |
13 90.04 |
14 136.34 |
2012–13 season | |||||
Date | Event | Level | SP | FS | Total |
January 2–6, 2013 | 2013 South Korean Championships | Senior | 8 46.18 |
7 88.60 |
7 134.78 |
August 29–September 1, 2012 | 2012 ISU Junior Grand Prix, United States | Junior | 14 35.27 |
16 64.06 |
15 99.33 |
- ISU Personal best highlighted in bold.
References
[edit]- ^ "Ladies Results of ISU JGP Lake Placid 2012". September 2, 2012.
- ^ "Ladies Results of 2014 Triglav Trophy". November 13, 2014.
- ^ "Junior Ladies Results of Leo Scheu Memorial". November 13, 2014.
- ^ 주, 미희 (December 6, 2015). "최다빈, 피겨 랭킹대회 첫우승..차준환 男 최고점(종합)" [Choi Da-bin won the KSU President Cup, Cha Jun-hwan recorded new record among Korean male skaters] (in Korean). Newsen.
- ^ "Ji Hyun BYUN: 2015/2016". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on May 28, 2016.
- ^ "Ji Hyun BYUN: 2012/2013". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on February 16, 2013.
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: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ a b "Competition Results: Ji Hyun BYUN". International Skating Union.
External links
[edit]- Ji Hyun BYUN at the International Skating Union
- 2014 South Korean Figure Skating Championships Results: 1st Day 2nd Day 3rd Day