Kim Hyun-gyeom
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| Native name | 김현겸 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Full name | Kim Hyun-gyeom | ||||||||||||||||||
| Born | June 27, 2006 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Home town | Incheon, South Korea | ||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  South Korea | ||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Men's singles | ||||||||||||||||||
| Coach | Choi Hyung-kyung Kim Na-hyun Kim Min-seok | ||||||||||||||||||
| Skating club | Hankwang High School | ||||||||||||||||||
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Kim Hyun-gyeom (Korean: 김현겸; born June 27, 2006)[1] 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.[2]
He represented South Korea at the 2026 Winter Olympics.
Kim was born on June 27, 2006, in Seoul, South Korea.[1] 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.[3][4]
Kim can speak some Japanese as a result of his mother being fluent in the language.[3] He also speaks a bit of English.[5] Kim currently attends Dankook University as a student.[6]
He looks up to training mate, Cha Jun-hwan, as well as fellow skaters, Yuma Kagiyama and Adam Siao Him Fa.[3][4]
Career
Early career
Kim began figure skating at the age of eight and began training under Chi Hyun-jung at the age of nine.[4]
As an intermediate novice skater, Kim competed at 2018 Asian Open Trophy, where he won the gold medal.[7] He then went on to finish fourth at the 2019 Korean Junior Championships that same year.[8]
The following season, at 2019 Asian Open Trophy, Kim won the bronze medal as an advanced novice.[9] Then going on to compete at the 2020 Korean Junior Championships, Kim won the bronze medal.[10]
2020–21 season
Debuting on the senior national level, Kim placed eighth at the 2021 Korean Championships.[2]
2021–22 season: Junior international debut
Making his international Junior Grand Prix debut, Kim finished eighth and ninth at the JGP Poland and JGP Austria, respectively.[2]
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.[2]
2022–23 season: Senior international debut
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.[2]
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.[11][12]
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.[13]
2023–24 season: Youth Olympic gold
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.[14] 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.[15] 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.[16] The following week he appeared on the senior level at the Nepela Memorial, finishing fourth for the second consecutive season.[2]
Following the Junior Grand Prix, Kim won the national qualifier for the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics, to be hold on home ice in Gangwon.[17] He went on to compete at the senior national ranking competition, finishing fourth.[18]
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."[19] 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.[2]
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.[20] 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.[21]
Kim concluded the season making his senior World Championship debut, where he finished eighteenth.[2]
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.[2][22]
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.[23][24] 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.[22] With this result, Kim was named to the 2025 Four Continents Championships team.[25] One month later, he finished fourth at the 2025 South Korean Championships.[22]
In February, Kim competed at the 2025 Asian Winter Games in Harbin, China. During the short program, he took a hard fall on a triple axel attempt, spraining his ankle in the process. After placing tenth in that competition segment, Kim opted to withdraw before the free skate to allow his ankle to heal.[26] One week following the event, Kim competed at the 2025 Four Continents Championships in Seoul, finishing the event in seventh place.[22] Following the event, he left longtime coach, Chi Hyun-jung, and began training under Choi Hyung-kyung, Kim Na-hyun, and Kim Min-seok.[27]
Initially named as the first alternate for the 2025 World team, Kim was ultimately called up to compete following the withdrawal of Lee Si-hyeong.[28] He ultimately finished the event in twenty-sixth place.[22]
2025–26 season: Milano Cortina Olympics
Kim opened the season by winning the gold medal at the 2025 Asian Open Trophy.[2]
At 2025 Skate to Milano, Kim Hyungyeom won the silver medal in the men's event. With this placement, Kim earned a second Olympic spot for South Korea in the men's event. [29]
In November, he competed at the annual South Korean Ranking Competition, finishing in fourth place. Following the event, he was named to the 2026 Four Continents Championships.[22][30] He went on to compete at the 2026 South Korean Championships, finishing fourth overall.[22] Following the event, he was named to the 2026 Winter Olympic team.[31] A couple weeks later, Kim finished seventeenth at the 2026 Four Continents Championships in Beijing, China.[22]
On 10 February, Kim competed in the short program segment at the 2026 Winter Olympics, placing twenty-sixth. He did not advance to the free skate segment.[22]
In March, Kim competed at the 2026 World Championships. He placed twenty-eighth in the short program and did not advance to the free skate.[32]
Programs
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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
- TBD – Assigned
- WD – Withdrew from competition
| Season | 2020–21 | 2021–22 | 2022–23 | 2023–24 | 2024–25 | 2025–26 |
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| Winter Olympics | 26th | |||||
| World Championships | 18th | 26th | 28th | |||
| Four Continents Championships | 7th | 17th | ||||
| South Korean Championships | 8th | 7th | 2nd | 4th | 4th | |
| GP Cup of China | 9th | |||||
| CS Cranberry Cup | 7th | |||||
| CS Finlandia Trophy | 12th | |||||
| CS Nepela Memorial | 4th | 4th | ||||
| Asian Games | WD | |||||
| Asian Open Trophy | 4th | 1st | ||||
| Skate to Milano | 2nd |
| Season | 2018–19 | 2019–20 | 2021–22 | 2022–23 | 2023–24 |
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| Winter Youth Olympics | 1st | ||||
| Winter Youth Olympics (Team event) | 1st | ||||
| World Junior Championships | 6th | ||||
| Junior Grand Prix Final | 2nd | ||||
| South Korean Championships | 4th | 3rd | |||
| JGP Austria | 9th | 2nd | |||
| JGP Hungary | 1st | ||||
| JGP Poland | 8th | ||||
| Triglav Trophy | 1st |
