Denis Ten

He placed 26th in the short program and did not advance to the free skating portion of the event.

He had placed 0.44 points below the final qualifier.

Ten finished the season at the Haabersti Cup in Tallinn, Estonia, where he won the junior men's event by 16.34 points ahead of silver medalist Viktor Romanenkov.

He placed 3rd in the short program, 2.42 behind second-place finisher Ivan Bariev and 2.22 ahead of fourth-place finisher Andrew Lum.

He was a member of the Astana Presidential Sports Club and the political party "Nur Otan", which ruled the country since 1991.

Denis Yurievich Ten (Денис Юрийұлы Тен; Денис Юрьевич Тен; 13 June 1993 – 19 July 2018) was a Kazakhstani figure skater.

Ten was born on 13 June 1993 in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

He was a member of the Korean minority in Kazakhstan.

His great-great-grandfather, Min Geung-ho, was a famous Korean independence fighter general during the time of the Korean Empire when Korea fought for independence from Japan.

Ten attended music school for five years and competed as part of a choir.

In 2002, his team won the silver medal at the World Choir Games, held in Busan, South Korea.

This was Ten's first trip to that country.

He also tried taekwondo, karate, tennis, swimming and acrobatics.

In 2003, he traveled to Omsk in southwest Siberia, Russia, for a skating competition which he won.

The head judge, Alexander Kogan, invited him to another competition in Odintsovo, Moscow region, where Ten met coach Elena Buianova (Vodorezova).

Ten began training camp with her at CSKA Moscow and was later invited to join her group full-time.

Ten moved with his mother to Moscow, Russia, in 2004 while his father and older brother, Alexei, remained in Kazakhstan.

Ten already spoke Russian—it is co-official in Kazakhstan and was Ten's first language.

Ten began competing internationally in the 2006–2007 season at the age of 13, which was the first year he was age-eligible for International Skating Union (ISU) junior-level competition.

On 5 October 2006, he debuted on the ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) at the 2006–07 JGP event in The Hague, Netherlands.

In November, he competed at the 2006 Coupe Internationale de Nice in Nice, France, on the novice level.

He won the event by 4.18 ahead of silver medalist Artur Gachinski.

In February 2007, Ten competed at the Dragon Trophy in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

He won the junior men's event by 34.36 points over silver medalist Jason Thompson.

Later that month, Ten competed at the 2007 World Junior Championships in Oberstdorf, Germany.

Ten began his season on the 2007–08 JGP circuit.

In September 2007, he competed at the JGP event in Miercurea Ciuc, Romania.

At the 2008–09 ISU Junior Grand Prix event in Belarus, he became the first skater from Kazakhstan to win an International Skating Union competition.

In the free skate, Ten placed 6th, and finished the event in 6th place overall, 5.09 points behind bronze medalist Takahito Mura.

His other accomplishments include qualifying two spots for his country in the men's event at the 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympics.

Ten was the official ambassador for the Olympic Bidding Committee "Almaty 2022".

In 2010, he moved with his mother to the U.S. state of California.

Ten began skating at an open-air rink in Almaty in winter and later practiced at an indoor rink in a shopping mall.

At Ten's second event two weeks later in Tallinn, he placed 10th in the short program and 10th in the free skate to place 10th overall.

In 2013, he began producing his own ice show, "Denis Ten and Friends".

He was the 2014 Olympic bronze medalist, a two-time World medalist (silver in 2013, bronze in 2015), the 2015 Four Continents champion, the 2017 Winter Universiade champion, and a five-time national champion of Kazakhstan.

Ten was the first skater from Kazakhstan to stand on the podium at the World Championships, Four Continents Championships, Asian Winter Games, and the Olympic Games.

In summer 2014, he announced his cooperation with All That Sports management company established by Yuna Kim.

Ten placed 14th in the short program and 7th in the free skate to place 10th overall.

In July 2018, Ten was murdered in Almaty by two robbers who were attempting to steal his car mirrors.