Ting Tzu-Han (Chinese: 丁子涵; pinyin: Dīng Zǐhán; born February 21, 2006) is a Taiwanese figure skater. She is the 2022 Nordic silver medalist and the 2022 Taiwanese national champion. She has competed in the final segment at two ISU Championships, placing 17th at the 2020 World Junior Championships and 15th at the 2022 Four Continents Championships.
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Personal information | |
Native name | 丁子涵 |
Full name | Ting Tzu-Han |
Alternative names | Ding Zihan |
Country represented | ![]() |
Born | (2006-02-21) February 21, 2006 (age 16) Taipei, Taiwan |
Home town | Taipei |
Residence | Taipei |
Height | 1.50 m (4 ft 11 in) |
Coach | Chen Kuo-Wen |
Choreographer | Joey Russell |
Training locations | Taipei, Taiwan Salt Lake City, Utah |
Former training locations | Toronto, Canada |
Began skating | 2013 |
ISU personal best scores | |
Combined total | 162.42 2022 CS Nebelhorn Trophy |
Short program | 56.27 2019 JGP Poland |
Free skate | 112.50 2022 CS Nebelhorn Trophy |
Ting was born on February 21, 2006 in Taipei, Taiwan. Her parents fund all of her career expenses, with the help of donations from friends and local sponsorships.[1] Ting attends a local school and had the fourth-best grades in her class in 2019.[2] She enjoys DIY crafts, cooking, and baking.[3] Ting admires Japan's Yuzuru Hanyu as her future goal and especially likes his "Hope and Legacy" free skating program.[4]
Ting initially started out learning inline skating, before a coach believed that she had potential and encouraged her to try figure skating.[4] She began skating at age 6.5 years, after she did not fall like other beginners during her first lessons.[4] Ting won the 2016 Taiwanese Championships in the intermediate division, the 2017 and 2018 Taiwanese Championships in the advanced novice division, and the 2019 Taiwanese Championships in the junior division.[5]
On the international level, Ting is the 2016 Asian Open Trophy basic novice A bronze medalist, the 2017–18 Southeast Asian Figure Skating Open Challenge advanced novice champion, the 2018 Rooster Cup advanced novice champion, and the 2019 Oceania International Novice champion.[5][6][2] At the 2017 edition of the Asian Open Trophy, she was the youngest competitor in the advanced novice division, at only 11 years old.[7]
Ting began working in Canada at the Toronto Cricket, Skating and Curling Club with Joey Russell, in addition to training with her current coach Chen Kuo-Wen in Taipei.[2] She won the 2020 Taiwanese junior title in early August by nearly 40 points over Mandy Chiang and Marissa Yi-Shan Wu.[8] Ting then won the 2019 Tokyo Summer Figure Skating Competition.[9]
Ting made her junior international debut on the 2019–20 ISU Junior Grand Prix, originally being assigned to 2019 JGP Poland and 2019 JGP Italy.[10] She placed 11th in Poland and later withdrew from Italy. Ting placed fifth in Junior Ladies I at the 2020 Bavarian Open in February. She qualified to the free skating segment at the 2020 World Junior Championships in Tallinn, ultimately finishing 17th overall.[11]
Ting won her third consecutive junior national title at the 2021 Taiwanese Championships in August. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020–21 ISU Junior Grand Prix, where she would have competed, was cancelled. Ting won the 2021 Chinese Taipei Figure Skating Elites Cup in the senior division.[12]
Ting was assigned to compete at the 2021 CS Nebelhorn Trophy to attempt to qualify a berth for Taiwan at the 2022 Winter Olympics. She placed tenth at the event with new personal bests in both the free skate and total score, resulting in Taiwan being the third reserve for the Olympics. She went on to finish the fall season with a fourth place at the 2021 Asian Open and gold at the Taiwanese championships. Assigned to the 2022 Four Continents Championships in Tallinn, she finished fifteenth. Ting concluded the season by making her World Championship debut, coming in twenty-sixth position.[13]
In her season debut, Ting placed fourth at the 2022 CS Nebelhorn Trophy.[13]
Season | Short program | Free skating |
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2022–2023 |
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2020–2022 [14] |
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2019–2020 [3] |
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2018–2019 [4] |
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CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix
International[13] | ||||||||
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Event | 15–16 | 16–17 | 17–18 | 18–19 | 19–20 | 20–21 | 21–22 | 22–23 |
Worlds | 26th | |||||||
Four Continents | 15th | |||||||
CS Nebelhorn | 10th | 4th | ||||||
CS Lombardia | 8th | |||||||
Asian Open | 4th | |||||||
Nordics | 2nd | |||||||
International: Junior[13] | ||||||||
Junior Worlds | 17th | |||||||
JGP Poland | 11th | |||||||
Bavarian Open | 5th1 | |||||||
International: Advanced novice[5][6] | ||||||||
Asian Open | 8th | 4th | ||||||
Oceania Int. | 1st | |||||||
Rooster Cup | 1st | |||||||
National[5][6] | ||||||||
Taiwan | 1st I | 1st N | 1st N | 1st J | 1st J | 1st J | 1st | 1st |
1 Group I; TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew Levels: I = Intermediate; N = Novice; J = Junior |
2022–2023 season | ||||
Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
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September 21–24, 2022 | 2022 CS Nebelhorn Trophy | 11 49.92 |
4 112.50 |
4 162.42 |
September 16–18, 2022 | 2022 CS Lombardia Trophy | 9 53.22 |
8 103.13 |
8 156.35 |
2021–2022 season | ||||
Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
March 21–27, 2022 | 2022 World Championships | 26 55.24 |
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26 55.24 |
January 18–23, 2022 | 2022 Four Continents Championships | 17 49.15 |
14 96.42 |
15 145.57 |
October 13–17, 2021 | 2021 Asian Open Trophy | 8 51.84 |
3 103.19 |
4 155.03 |
September 22–25, 2021 | 2021 CS Nebelhorn Trophy | 13 51.33 |
8 105.88 |
10 157.21 |
2020–2021 season | ||||
Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
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August 2–3, 2020 | 2020–21 Taiwanese Championships | 1 45.97 |
1 96.57 |
1 142.54 |
2019–2020 season | ||||
Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
March 2–8, 2020 | 2020 World Junior Championships | 22 50.97 |
14 98.07 |
17 149.04 |
February 3–9, 2020 | 2020 Bavarian Open | 4 53.62 |
5 96.53 |
5 150.15 |
September 18–21, 2019 | 2019 JGP Poland | 10 56.27 |
13 90.08 |
11 146.35 |
August 23–25, 2019 | 2019 Tokyo Summer Competition | 2 50.43 |
1 94.96 |
1 145.39 |
August 2–3, 2019 | 2019–20 Taiwanese Championships | 1 48.22 |
1 96.36 |
1 144.58 |