Kim Min-chae

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Kim Min-chae
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Personal information
Native name
김민채
Other namesMinchae Kim
Born (2006-02-26) 26 February 2006 (age 20)
Seoul, South Korea
Home townSeoul
Height1.56 m (5 ft 1+12 in)
Figure skating career
CountryFile:Flag of South Korea.svg South Korea
CoachChi Hyun-jung
Kim Jin-seo
Began skating2014

Kim Min-chae (Korean김민채; born 26 February 2006) is a South Korean figure skater. She is the 2022 CS Denis Ten Memorial Challenge champion and the 2024 CS Nebelhorn Trophy bronze medalist.[1][2]

Personal life

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Kim was born on February 26, 2006 in Seoul, South Korea.[3]

Career

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Early career

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Kim began skating in 2014 and was initially coached by Lee Bo-ram.[4]

Kim made her international debut as an advanced novice at the 2018 Crystal Skate of Romania, which she won.[5] She then went on to win the silver medal at the 2019 Korean Junior Championships.[6]

Her second international competition was as a junior at the 2019 Prague Ice Cup, the following season, where she won the silver medal.[7] Debuting on the senior National level, Kim place twelfth at the 2020 Korean Championships.[1]

The following year, Kim placed tenth at the 2021 Korean Championships.[1]

Prior to the 2021–22 figure skating season, Park Bit-na became her coach.[8]

2021–22 season

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Debuting on the 2021–22 ISU Junior Grand Prix, Kim finished fourth at 2021 Junior Grand Prix Slovenia. Although assigned to compete at 2021 Junior Grand Prix Poland, Kim was forced to withdraw after rupturing a disk in her lower back.[4] Despite this, Kim went on to compete at the 2022 Korean Championships in January, where she finished seventh.[1]

Following the season, Kim left coach, Park Bit-na to train under Shin Hea-sook.[8][3]

2022–23 season

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Kim competed on the 2022–23 ISU Junior Grand Prix at 2022 Junior Grand Prix Poland I and 2022 Junior Grand Prix Italy, finishing thirteenth and eighth, respectively.[1]

Kim made her senior international debut at the 2022 CS Denis Ten Memorial Challenge, where she won the gold medal. She then went on to finish nineteenth at the 2022 CS Ice Challenge.[1] At the 2023 Korean Championships, Kim finished the season with a thirteenth-place finish.[1] She returned to coach, Park Bit-na, following the event.[9]

2023–24 season

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Beginning the season at the 2023 CS Nebelhorn Trophy, Kim won the bronze medal.[1] She went on to finish twenty-fifth at the annual South Korean Ranking Competition. She did not compete at the 2024 South Korean Championships.[2]

2024–25 season

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Prior to the start of the season, Kim left Park Bit-na and began training under Chi Hyun-jung and Kim Jin-seo.[10]

Kim was assigned to compete at 2024 Skate America and 2024 Cup of China, acting as a replacement to Lee Hae-in and Ava Marie Ziegler, respectively.[11][12][13] Kim would finish tenth at Skate America and eleventh at the Cup of China. One week following the latter event, she would place eighteenth at the South Korean Ranking Competition.[1]

Kim then finished the season by placing twenty-first at the 2025 South Korean Championships.[2]

2025–26 season

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Kim started the season in August by competing at the 2025 CS Cranberry Cup International, where she finished in ninth place.[1]

Programs

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Season Short program Free skating Exhibition
2025–2026
[14]
2024–2025
[10]
2023–2024
[9]
2022–2023
[3][4]

2021–2022
[8]
2020–2021
2019–2020
2018–2019
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Competitive highlights

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Competition placements at senior level [2]
Season 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24 2024–25 2025–26
South Korean Championships 12th 10th 7th 13th 21st
GP Cup of China 11th
GP Skate America 10th
CS Cranberry Cup 9th
CS Denis Ten Memorial 1st
CS Ice Challenge 19th
CS Nebelhorn Trophy 3rd
Competition placements at junior level [2]
Season 2018–19 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23
South Korean Championships 2nd
JGP Italy 8th
JGP Poland WD 13th
JGP Slovenia 4th
Prague Ice Cup 2nd

Detailed results

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ISU personal best scores in the +5/-5 GOE System [2]
Segment Type Score Event
Total TSS 192.48 2021 JGP Slovenia
Short program TSS 70.83 2021 JGP Slovenia
TES 40.94 2021 JGP Slovenia
PCS 29.89 2021 JGP Slovenia
Free skating TSS 121.65 2021 JGP Slovenia
TES 65.52 2023 CS Nebelhorn Trophy
PCS 58.94 2021 JGP Slovenia

Current personal best scores are highlighted in bold.

Senior results

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2025–26 season
Date Event SP FS Total
August 7–10, 2025 2025 CS Cranberry Cup International 6
53.82
10
87.13
9
140.95
2024–25 season
Date Event SP FS Total
January 2–5, 2025 2025 South Korean Championships 16
55.00
23
74.47
21
129.47
November 22–24, 2024 2024 Cup of China 7
62.94
12
91.45
11
154.39
October 18–20, 2024 2024 Skate America 6
60.66
11
104.91
10
165.57
2023–24 season
Date Event SP FS Total
September 20–23, 2023 2023 CS Nebelhorn Trophy 2
62.76
3
121.27
3
184.03
2022–23 season
Date Event SP FS Total
January 5–8, 2023 2023 South Korean Championships 16
53.37
11
117.01
13
170.38
November 9–13, 2022 2022 CS Ice Challenge 10
52.45
23
77.83
19
130.28
October 26–29, 2022 2022 CS Denis Ten Memorial Challenge 7
41.05
1
117.79
1
158.84
2021–22 season
Date Event SP FS Total
January 7–9, 2022 2022 South Korean Championships 7
65.12
8
126.39
7
191.51
2020–21 season
Date Event SP FS Total
February 24–26, 2021 2021 South Korean Championships 10
57.54
10
111.74
10
169.28
2019–20 season
Date Event SP FS Total
January 3–5, 2020 2020 South Korean Championships 14
50.68
11
101.38
12
151.98

Junior results

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2022–23 season
Date Event SP FS Total
October 12–15, 2022 2021 JGP Italy 25
43.16
5
118.29
8
161.45
Sept. 28 – Oct. 1, 2022 2022 JGP Poland I 6
59.47
15
92.78
13
152.25
2021–22 season
Date Event SP FS Total
September 22–25, 2021 2021 Junior Grand Prix Slovenia 2
70.83
5
121.65
4
192.48
2019–20 season
Date Event SP FS Total
November 8–10, 2019 2019 Prague Ice Cup 2
46.98
1
92.41
2
139.39
2018–19 season
January 11–13, 2019 2019 South Korean Championships 1
51.86
2
92.98
2
144.84

References

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