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Kim Yuna
Kim Yuna (Korean: Yuna Kim, September 5, 1990 -), a retired Korean women's singles figure skater, was born in Bucheon City, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. Started learning figure skating at the age of 7. At the 2009 World Championships in Los Angeles, Kim Yuna won the championship by setting two records in the women's short program and total score. In the women's singles figure skating at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, Kim Yuna broke the record with a total score of 228.56 points in the short program and free skate. She won South Korea's first Winter Olympics figure skating gold medal and became the first women's singles winner in the history of figure skating to win the Winter Olympics, World Championships, Grand Prix Finals, Four Continents Championships, and World Youth Championships. In the women's singles figure skating at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, Kim Yuna won the Winter Olympics figure skating silver medal for South Korea with a total score of 219.11 points in the short program and free skate.
- Category
- Athletes
- Nationality
- Republic of Korea
- Born
- 1990-09-05
- Wikidata
- Q229124