Lee Hae-in (figure skater)

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Lee Hae-in
Lee at the 2019 World Junior Championships
Native name	이해인
Born	(2005-04-16) 16 April 2005 Daejeon, South Korea
Hometown	Seoul
Height	1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)
Figure skating career
Country	South Korea
Coach	Chi Hyun-jung
Began skating	2013

Lee Hae-in (Korean: 이해인; born 16 April 2005) is a South Korean figure skater. She is a two-time champion on the ISU Junior Grand Prix (2019 JGP Latvia, 2019 JGP Croatia) and the two-time South Korean national senior medalist (silver in 2020, bronze in 2019). She represented her country at the 2020 World Junior Championships, where she finished 5th.

She is currently the 29th highest ranked ladies' singles skater in world by the International Skating Union following the 2019-20 figure skating season.

Career

Lee Hae-in was born on 16 April 2005 in Daejeon, South Korea, and began learning to skate in 2013.

2017–2018 season

In January 2018 at the 2018 senior South Korean Championships, Lee was 9th.

2018–2019 season

In the 2018–2019 season, she debuted in the ISU Junior Grand Prix series.

In January 2019 at the 2019 senior South Korean Championships, she won the bronze medal (behind You Young and Lim Eun-soo).

In March 2019, Lee (along with You Young) represented South Korea at the 2019 World Junior Championships in Zagreb, Croatia. She ranked 14th in the short, which put her in only the third-to-last warm-up group for the free skate. In the free, she placed 7th, raising to 8th overall. (You Young was 11th in the short and 5th in the free skate and finished 6th.)

2019–2020 season

In July 2019, Lee Hae-in participated in the ISU Junior Grand Prix Korean qualification competition held in Taeneung, South Korea, where she came in first in the short program, free program, and overall. Following the competition, she was selected and assigned to two ISU Junior Grand Prix events, JGP Latvia and JGP Croatia.

At JGP Latvia, she became the third Korean woman ever to become an ISU Junior Grand Prix champion, following Yuna Kim and Kim Hae-jin. She finished third in the short program behind Maiia Khromykh and Daria Usacheva of Russia and the placed first in the free program to win the event with a combined total of 197.63 points, more than three points ahead of silver medalist Usacheva. She set personal best scores in the short program, free program, and overall. This event marked the first Junior Grand Prix event won by a Korean lady since Kim Hae-jin's victory at JGP Slovenia in 2012.

At JGP Croatia, she placed second in the short program with a new personal best, once again behind Daria Usacheva. After a strong free skate in which she once again scored a new personal best, she placed first overall with a new personal best overall score of 203.40, more than six points ahead of Usacheva in second and 21 points ahead of Anna Frolova in third. This marked the first time that Lee scored above 200 points in combined total. With two first-place finishes, Lee qualified to the 2019-20 Junior Grand Prix Final as the third-ranked skater, behind Kamila Valieva of Russia and Alysa Liu of the United States. She was the third Korean lady to ever qualify for the final after Kim Yuna and Kim Ye-lim.

At 2020 World Junior Championships, she earned a small silver medal for the short program behind Kamila Valieva earning gold and ahead of Daria Usacheva, who claimed bronze. Lee remarked that she had not expected to be in the top three after the short program, adding "I'm surprised with the score, it’s very high." She also set a new season best for this short program. In the free skate, Lee fell on a downgraded triple flip attempt, resulting in a sixth-place finish in that segment and ranking fifth overall.

Programs

Season	Short program	Free skating	Exhibition
2019–2020	Nocturne No. 20 in C-sharp minor by Frédéric Chopin	Firedance (from Riverdance) by Bill Whelan	"Never Enough" from The Greatest Showman
2018–2019	"Never Enough" from The Greatest Showman	West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein

Competitive highlights

JGP: Junior Grand Prix

International: Junior
Event	17–18	18–19	19–20
Junior Worlds		8th	5th
JGP Final			5th
JGP Austria		4th
JGP Croatia			1st
JGP Latvia			1st
JGP Slovenia		3rd
Asian Open		1st
Winter Children of Asia ISG		5th
International: Novice
Asian Open	1st
National
South Korean Champ.	9th	3rd	2nd
Levels: N = Basic Novice, J = Junior TBD = Assigned

Detailed results

Junior level

Lee at the 2019–20 JGP Final

Small medals for short and free programs awarded only at ISU Championships. Personal bests highlighted in bold.

2019–20 season
Date	Event	Level	SP	FS	Total
March 2–8, 2020	2020 World Junior Championships	Junior	2 70.08	6 123.93	5 194.01
January 3–5, 2020	2020 South Korean Championships	Senior	2 68.20	2 136.36	2 204.56
December 5-8, 2019	2019–20 Junior Grand Prix Final	Junior	6 65.39	4 128.99	5 194.38
September 25–28, 2019	2019 JGP Croatia	Junior	2 69.29	1 134.11	1 203.40
September 4–7, 2019	2019 JGP Latvia	Junior	3 66.93	1 130.70	1 197.63
2018–19 season
Date	Event	Level	SP	FS	Total
March 4-10, 2019	2019 World Junior Championships	Junior	14 53.02	7 118.95	8 171.97
February 13–15, 2019	2019 Winter Children of Asia ISG	Junior	3 65.16	6 109.57	5 174.73
January 11–13, 2018	2019 South Korean Championships	Senior	3 63.66	3 124.07	3 187.73
October 3–6, 2018	2018 JGP Slovenia	Junior	4 63.01	3 117.47	3 180.48
August 29 – September 1, 2018	2018 JGP Austria	Junior	7 53.17	4 112.25	4 165.42
August 1–3, 2018	2018 Asian Open Trophy	Junior	2 59.34	3 110.24	1 169.58
2017–18 season
Date	Event	Level	SP	FS	Total
January 5–7, 2018	2018 South Korean Championships	Senior	7 57.64	10 107.60	9 165.24
August 2–5, 2017	2017 Asian Open Trophy	Novice	-	1 48.37	1 48.37

External links

• Lee Hae-in at the International Skating Union