Chen Hongyi (; born September 19, 2002) is a Chinese

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. She is the

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champion, a three-time Chinese national medalist (2018–20), and has skated in the final segment at five ISU Championships.

Career

Early years

Chen began learning to skate in 2008.

2017–2018 season

Chen's

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(JGP) debut came in September 2017, in

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, Croatia, where she placed sixteenth. The following month, she finished tenth at a JGP event in

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, Poland. In December, she stepped onto her first senior national podium, taking bronze at the 2018 Chinese Championships. She qualified to the free skate and finished eighteenth overall at the 2018 World Junior Championships in

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, Bulgaria.

2018–2019 season

Making her senior international debut, Chen placed sixth at the

2018 CS Asian Open Figure Skating Trophy The 2018 CS Asian Open Figure Skating Trophy was held from August 1, 2018 to August 5, 2018 in Bangkok, Thailand. It is part of the 2018–19 ISU Challenger Series. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair ...

in early August. She placed fourteenth at the 2019 Four Continents Championships. She placed nineteenth at the 2019 World Junior Championships in early March, and then made her senior World Championship debut, placing nineteenth there as well.

2019–2020 season

Chen made her

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debut, placing ninth at the 2019 Cup of China and eighth at the

2019 Rostelecom Cup The 2019 Rostelecom Cup was the fifth event of the 2019–20 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at Megasport Sport Palace in Moscow, Russia from November 15–17. Medals wer ...

. After taking the silver medal at the Chinese championships, she placed eleventh at the 2020 Four Continents Championships. She was assigned to compete at the 2020 World Championships, but these were cancelled as a result of the

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2020–2021 season

With the pandemic continuing to affect international travel, the ISU assigned the

based largely on geography. Chen was assigned to the

, which she won over the other Chinese ladies present by almost 40 points. Competing at the 2021 World Championships in Stockholm, Chen placed twenty-first. Her result qualified a berth for China at its home

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Programs

Competitive highlights

''CS: Challenger Series; ''GP:

''; JGP: Junior Grand Prix''

References

External links

* * Also see Hongyi CHEN at

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