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Kim Hyun-gyeom
Kim during his short program at the 2024 World Championships
Full name	Kim Hyun-gyeom
Native name	김현겸
Born	(2006-06-27) June 27, 2006 (age 18) Seoul, South Korea
Hometown	Incheon, South Korea
Height	1.71 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in)
Figure skating career
Country	South Korea
Discipline	Men's singles
Coach	Chi Hyun-jung Kim Jin-seo
Skating club	Hankwang High School
Medal record
South Korean Championships 2023 Uijeongbu Singles Winter Youth Olympics 2024 Gangwon Singles 2024 Gangwon Team Junior Grand Prix Final 2023–24 Beijing Singles

Kim Hyun-gyeom (Korean: 김현겸; born June 27, 2006) is a South Korean figure skater. He is the 2024 Winter Youth Olympic champion in both the men's and team events, the 2023–24 Junior Grand Prix Final silver medalist, a two-time ISU Junior Grand Prix medalist, the 2023 South Korean silver medalist, and the 2020 South Korean Junior bronze medalist.

Personal life

Kim was born on June 27, 2006, in Seoul, South Korea. Before he began figure skating, Kim played soccer at a youth soccer academy. Moreover, he also practiced ballet and took piano lessons as a child.

Kim can speak some Japanese as a result of his mother being fluent in the language. He also speaks a bit of English.

He looks up to training mate, Cha Jun-hwan, as well as fellow skaters, Yuma Kagiyama and Adam Siao Him Fa.

Career

Early career

Kim began figure skating at the age of eight and has trained under coach, Chi Hyun-jung, since the age of nine.

As an intermediate novice skater, Kim competed at 2018 Asian Open Trophy, where he won the gold medal. He then went on to finish fourth at the 2019 Korean Junior Championships that same year.

The following season, at 2019 Asian Open Trophy, Kim won the bronze medal as an advanced novice. Then going on to compete at the 2020 Korean Junior Championships, Kim won the bronze medal.

2020–21 season

Debuting on the senior national level, Kim placed eighth at the 2021 Korean Championships.

2021–22 season

Making his international Junior Grand Prix debut, Kim finished eighth and ninth at the JGP Poland and JGP Austria, respectively.

Following a seventh-place finish at the 2022 Korean Championships, Kim closed his season with a gold medal in the junior event of the 2022 Triglav Trophy.

2022–23 season

Kim began the 2022–23 figure skating season by making his senior international debut at 2022 Ondrej Nepela Trophy, where he placed fourth before going on to finish twelfth at 2022 Finlandia Trophy.

At the 2023 Korean Championships, Kim managed to win the silver medal behind Cha Jun-hwan after delivering two clean performances. As a result, Kim was selected to represent South Korea at the 2023 World Junior Championships in Calgary, Alberta.

At those championships, Kim placed eighth in the short program and sixth in the free skate segments of the competitions, scoring personal bests and finishing sixth overall. This placement earned two spots for South Korean men's singles skaters at the 2024 World Junior Championships.

2023–24 season

In late July, Kim competed at the 2023 South Korean ISU Junior Grand Prix Qualifiers, where he won the silver medal behind Seo Min-kyu, earning two assignments on the Junior Grand Prix circuit. At his first assignment, the 2023 JGP Austria, he won the silver medal and set a new personal best score in the free skate in the process. He was the only skater at the event to attempt quadruple jump, but it was deemed underrotated. Kim then won gold at the 2023 JGP Hungary, again improving his free skate personal best and setting a new personal best in total score as well. His results qualified him for the 2023–24 Junior Grand Prix Final. The following week he appeared on the senior level at the Nepela Memorial, finishing fourth for the second consecutive season.

Following the Junior Grand Prix, Kim won the national qualifier for the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics, to be hold on home ice in Gangwon. He went on to compete at the senior national ranking competition, finishing fourth.

Kim then competed at the Junior Grand Prix Final in Beijing, where he won the short program. Second in the free skate, he dropped to second overall and won the silver medal. After falling on his quad attempt, he said he was "not that satisfied with my performance" but "happy with the result." He went on to place fourth at the 2024 South Korean Championships. Due to Seo Min-kyu, who had placed ahead of him at Nationals, being age ineligible to compete at the 2024 World Championships in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Kim was given one of the three spots to compete at the event.

At the Youth Olympics, Kim came third in the short program of the men's event. He won the free skate, rising to first overall and claiming the gold medal, the first Olympic medal for a Korean man. He then joined Team Korea for the team event, again winning the men's segment and winning gold with the rest of the team, another first for Korea.

Kim concluded the season making his senior World Championship debut, where he finished eighteenth.

2024–25 season

Kim began the season with a seventh-place finish at the 2024 CS Cranberry Cup International. He would then go on to finish fourth at the 2024 Asian Open Trophy.

In early October, Kim competed at the 2024 Korean Universiade and Asian Games Qualifiers, where he placed second to Cha Jun-hwan. With this result, Kim was selected to represent South Korea at the 2025 Asian Winter Games. In late November, Kim would make his senior Grand Prix debut at the 2024 Cup of China, where he finished in ninth place. One week later, he competed at the annual South Korean Ranking Competition, where he placed fifth. With this result, Kim was named to the 2025 Four Continents Championships team.

Programs

Competitive highlights

• GP – Event of the ISU Grand Prix Series
• JGP – Event of the ISU Junior Grand Prix Series
• CS – Event of the ISU Challenger Series

Detailed results

Senior level

Results in the 2020–21 season 

Date	Event	SP		FS		Total
		P	Score	P	Score	P	Score
Feb 24–26, 2021	2021 South Korean Championships	8	47.27	8	99.32	8	146.59

Results in the 2021–22 season 

Date	Event	SP		FS		Total
		P	Score	P	Score	P	Score
Jan 7–9, 2022	2022 South Korean Championships	6	66.18	7	133.10	7	199.28

Results in the 2022–23 season 

Date	Event	SP		FS		Total
		P	Score	P	Score	P	Score
Sep 29 – Oct 1, 2022	2022 CS Nepela Memorial	7	67.21	4	134.98	4	202.19
Oct 4–9, 2022	2022 CS Finlandia Trophy	13	63.87	11	129.11	12	192.98
Jan 5–8, 2023	2023 South Korean Championships	3	78.60	3	158.63	2	237.23

Results in the 2023–24 season 

Date	Event	SP		FS		Total
		P	Score	P	Score	P	Score
Sep 28–30, 2023	2023 CS Nepela Memorial	8	75.24	4	155.22	4	230.46
Jan 4–7, 2024	2024 South Korean Championships	3	79.44	6	150.06	4	229.50
Mar 18–24, 2024	2024 World Championships	21	74.89	18	147.90	18	222.79

Results in the 2024–25 season 

Date	Event	SP		FS		Total
		P	Score	P	Score	P	Score
Aug 8–11, 2024	2024 CS Cranberry Cup International	5	81.15	8	136.27	7	217.42
Sep 2–6, 2024	2024 Asian Open Trophy	5	77.36	4	140.65	4	218.01
Nov 22–24, 2024	2024 Cup of China	11	67.76	8	148.88	9	216.64

Junior level

Results in the 2018–19 season 

Date	Event	SP		FS		Total
		P	Score	P	Score	P	Score
Jan 11–13, 2019	2019 South Korean Championships (Junior)	5	34.76	4	74.72	4	109.48

Results in the 2019–20 season 

Date	Event	SP		FS		Total
		P	Score	P	Score	P	Score
Jan 3–5, 2020	2020 South Korean Championships (Junior)	3	42.93	3	90.67	3	133.60

Results in the 2021–22 season 

Date	Event	SP		FS		Total
		P	Score	P	Score	P	Score
Sep 29 – Oct 2, 2021	2021 JGP Poland	7	62.30	8	119.40	8	181.70
Oct 6–9, 2021	2021 JGP Austria	7	62.42	9	114.91	9	177.33
Apr 13–17, 2022	2022 Triglav Trophy	1	66.29	1	129.45	1	195.74

Results in the 2022–23 season 

Date	Event	SP		FS		Total
		P	Score	P	Score	P	Score
Feb 7–12, 2023	2023 World Junior Championships	8	75.77	6	137.79	6	213.56

Results in the 2023–24 season 

Date	Event	SP		FS		Total
		P	Score	P	Score	P	Score
Aug 30 – Sep 2, 2023	2023 JGP Austria	2	73.45	3	138.31	2	211.76
Sep 20–23, 2023	2023 JGP Hungary	2	72.61	1	149.54	1	222.15
Dec 7–10, 2023	2023–24 Junior Grand Prix Final	1	77.01	2	146.60	2	223.61
Jan 27–29, 2024	2024 Winter Youth Olympics	3	69.28	1	147.45	1	216.73
Feb 1, 2024	2024 Winter Youth Olympics (Team event)	—	—	1	136.38	1	—

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External links

• Hyungyeom Kim at the International Skating Union
• Hyungyeom Kim at SkatingScores.com

• 2006 births
• Living people
• South Korean male single skaters
• Sportspeople from Incheon
• Figure skaters at the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics
• Youth Olympic gold medalists for South Korea
• 21st-century South Korean sportsmen