Shin Ji-a
Native name신지아
Other namesJia Shin
Sin Ji-a
Born (2008-03-19) March 19, 2008
Busan, South Korea
HometownSeoul, South Korea
Height1.52 m (5 ft 0 in)
Figure skating career
Country South Korea
CoachChi Hyun-jung
Kim Jin-seo
Began skating2015
Medal record
Figure skating: Women's singles
Representing  South Korea
World Junior Championships
Silver medal – second place2022 TallinnWomen's singles
Silver medal – second place2023 CalgaryWomen's singles
Junior Grand Prix Final
Silver medal – second place2022–23 TorinoWomen's singles
Silver medal – second place2023–24 BeijingWomen’s singles

Shin Ji-a (Korean: 신지아; born 19 March 2008) is a South Korean figure skater. She is a two-time South Korean national champion (2023 and 2024). At the junior level, she is a two-time World Junior silver medalist (2022 and 2023), a two-time Junior Grand Prix Final silver medalist (2022–23 and 2023–24), a five-time ISU Junior Grand Prix medalist (including gold at the 2022 JGP Latvia, the 2023 JGP Austria, and the 2023 JGP Hungary), and the 2021 South Korean junior champion.

Personal life

Shin was born on March 19, 2008 in Busan, South Korea.[1]

As a hobby, she enjoys baking.[1]

Career

Early years

Shin began learning to skate in 2015 at the age of seven, having been inspired from watching videos of Kim Yu-na skating on YouTube. The following year, she moved from Busan to Daegu to receive professional training before relocating to Seoul after entering the fifth grade.[2][3]

She won the national junior gold medal at the 2021 South Korean Championships.[4]

2021–22 season: Junior World silver

Making her international debut on the Junior Grand Prix at the 2021 JGP Slovenia in Ljubljana, Shin finished in sixth place.[4] The following week, she competed in her second event on the circuit, the 2021 JGP Poland in Gdańsk. She ranked second in the short program and third in the long due to a fall on the opening triple lutz. Shin won the bronze medal with only a 0.03 point gap from silver medalist Elizaveta Kulikova.[5] In her first senior event, Shin was fourth at the 2022 South Korean Championships.[4]

Shin was assigned to compete at the 2022 World Junior Championships, but events would soon complicate the situation. Shortly after the conclusion of the 2022 Winter Olympics, Russia invaded Ukraine. As a result, the International Skating Union banned all Russian athletes from competing at ISU championships.[6] As Russian women had dominated international figure skating in recent years, this had a significant impact on the field.[7] Due to both the invasion and the Omicron variant, the World Junior Championships could not be held as scheduled in Sofia in early March and were rescheduled for mid-April in Tallinn.[8] Shin finished second in the short program, 3.12 points behind segment leader Isabeau Levito of the United States.[9] She went on to win the free skate, taking a gold small medal for that segment but remained in second overall behind Levito by 0.54 points.[10] She was only the second South Korean to win a World Junior medal, the first one being Yuna Kim.[11]

2022–23 season: JGP Final and Junior World silver, first national title

Shin began the season on the Junior Grand Prix, winning the gold medal at the 2022 JGP Latvia in Riga. This included a new personal best in the short program, clearing 70 points in that segment for the first time.[12] At her second event, the second of two Polish Junior Grand Prixes held in Gdańsk, she won the silver medal behind Japanese skater Ami Nakai. With a total of 28 points, Shin qualified to the 2022–23 Junior Grand Prix Final.[13]

After winning the national ranking competition in Uijeongbu in early December, Shin traveled to Turin the following week for the Junior Grand Prix Final. She skated a clean short program, placing second just 0.55 points behind the leader, Japan's Mao Shimada. Referring to performing again so soon after the ranking competition, Shin said she was "really tired, but it's OK."[14] She was second in the free skate and also second overall, saying she was "satisfied with the result, the clean program, and the silver medal."[2] She and bronze medalist Kim Chae-yeon were the first Korean women to medal since Kim Yu-na in 2005.[15] She reflected on Kim as her inspiration, noting "I want to follow her path."[2].

Shin placed second in the short program at the 2023 South Korean Championships, behind Kim Ye-lim, after stepping out of her jump combination. She won the free skate despite colliding with the boards attempting the same jump combination, and overtook Kim to take the gold medal.[16]

Due to her ineligibility for senior competition, Shin was assigned to finish her season at the 2023 World Junior Championships in Calgary. Entering as the defending silver medalist, she finished second in the short program with a new personal best 71.19, 0.59 points behind segment leader Shimada.[17] She cleanly landed most of her jumps in the free skate, only to fall at the end of her choreographic sequence and take a one-point deduction. She finished narrowly second in the segment, just ahead of Nakai, and won her second consecutive Junior World silver medal.[18][19] Calling this "a great highlight" after having felt sick earlier in the week, she also stated that she planned to work with veteran choreographer David Wilson on programs for the following season.[18]

2023–24 season

In July 2023, Shin announced that she had left Seoul and moved to Chiba, Japan to train at the MF Figure Skating Academy under Kensuke Nakaniwa and alongside the 2023 World Junior bronze medalist, Ami Nakai.[20][21][1] She subsequently had to return to train in Korea, citing "minor injuries and problems with high school entrance exams."[22]

Shin began by competing at the 2023 South Korean ISU Junior Grand Prix Qualifiers, where she debuted her 2023-2024 programs. Shin skated a clean short program, earning 69.32 points, ranking first in the segment, and also a clean free skate, earning 139.48 points, ranking first both in the segment and overall. Her performance earned her two assignments on the Junior Grand Prix circuit.[23] At the 2023 JGP Austria, she finished first in both segments and won the gold medal by a 33-point margin over silver medalist Haruna Murakami of Japan.[24] She achieved a similarly dominant result at the 2023 JGP Hungary in Budapest, placing first in both segments and finishing nearly 24 points ahead of the silver medalist, fellow Korean skater Kim Yu-seong. She erred only once in each program, in both cases an underrotation call on one jump. These results secured Shin her second consecutive Junior Grand Prix Final berth; of this, she said "I am honoured and I will do my best."[25]

Following the Junior Grand Prix, Shin moved back to Seoul due to struggles with injuries and working around school entrance exam schedules. Shin expressed gratitude to coaches, Kensuke Nakaniwa and Nina Takeno, saying that she was sad to leave them and hoped they could meet up again in the future. Chi Hyun-jung and Kim Jin-seo became her new coaches.[26][3]

Shin then competed at the national qualifying competition for the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics, to be held on home soil in Gangwon. She placed first in both segments to win the gold medal, and was named to one of Korea's two berths in the women's competition, along with Kim Yu-seong.[22] She went on to win the senior national ranking competition for the second consecutive season.[27]

Shin narrowly won the short program at the Junior Grand Prix Final in Beijing, despite turning out of her jump combination, after chief rival Mao Shimada made a more significant error on her triple Lutz jump. In the free skate she made only two minor errors, receiving an incorrect edge call on a triple flip and a quarter underrotation on a loop, but was unable to match Shimada, who landed both a triple Axel and a quadruple toe loop. She won her second consecutive Final silver, and said she was "really happy" with the result.[28]

At the 2024 South Korean Championships, Shin won the gold medal for the second consecutive time.[4]

Programs

Season Short program Free skating Exhibition
2023–2024
[1][29]
2022–2023
[30]
  • Tree of Life Suite
    by Roberto Cacciapaglia
    choreo. by Shin Yea-ji
2021–2022
[31]
2020–2021
2019–2020 Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children:
2018–2019

Competitive highlights

GP: Grand Prix; CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix

International[4]
Event 20–21 21–22 22–23 23–24
Youth OlympicsTBD
Junior Worlds2nd2nd
JGP Final2nd2nd
JGP Austria1st
JGP Hungary1st
JGP Latvia1st
JGP Poland3rd2nd
JGP Slovenia6th
National[4]
South Korea1st J4th1st1st
Ranking1st J4th1st1st
J = Junior level

Detailed results

Current personal best scores are highlighted in bold.

Small medals for short and free programs awarded only at ISU Championships.

Junior level

2023–24 season
Date Event Level SP FS Total
January 4-7, 2024 2024 South Korean Championships Senior 1
69.08		 1
149.28		 1
218.36
December 7–10, 2023 2023–24 JGP Final Junior 1
69.08		 2
131.67		 2
200.75
September 20–23, 2023 2023 JGP Hungary Junior 1
66.25		 1
134.49		 1
200.74
Aug. 30 – Sept. 2, 2023 2023 JGP Austria Junior 1
70.38		 1
130.95		 1
201.33
2022–23 season
Date Event Level SP FS Total
Feb. 27 – Mar. 5, 2023 2023 World Junior Championships Junior 2
71.19		 2
130.71		 2
201.90
January 5–9, 2023 2023 South Korean Championships Senior 2
70.95		 1
142.06		 1
213.01
December 8–11, 2022 2022–23 JGP Final Junior 2
69.11		 2
131.21		 2
200.32
October 5–8, 2022 2022 JGP Poland II Junior 3
63.72		 2
130.97		 2
194.69
September 7–10, 2022 2022 JGP Latvia Junior 1
70.41		 1
124.27		 1
194.68
2021–22 season
Date Event Level SP FS Total
April 13–17, 2022 2022 World Junior Championships Junior 2
69.38		 1
136.63		 2
206.01
January 7–9, 2022 2022 South Korean Championships Senior 2
68.97		 4
135.11		 4
204.08
Sept. 29 – Oct. 2, 2021 2021 JGP Poland Junior 2
67.28		 3
116.13		 3
183.41
September 22–25, 2021 2021 JGP Slovenia Junior 7
55.82		 4
122.83		 6
178.65
2020–21 season
Date Event Level SP FS Total
February 24–26, 2021 2021 South Korean Junior Championships Junior 1
55.90		 3
91.59		 1
147.49

References

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  2. 1 2 3 "Mao Shimada (JPN) risks it all to claim Junior Women's Grand Prix Final crown". International Skating Union. December 9, 2022.
  3. 1 2 박, 지민. "[인터뷰] 주니어 세계 1위 피겨스케이팅 신지아, 그녀가 성장하는 법". MFocus. MFocus. Retrieved 10 January 2024.
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  5. ↑ "Sofia Akateva (RUS) continues to push the limits at ISU Junior Grand Prix in Gdansk (POL)". International Skating Union. October 4, 2021.
  6. ↑ "ISU Statement on the Ukrainian crisis – Participation in international competitions of Skaters and Officials from Russia and Belarus". International Skating Union. March 1, 2022.
  7. ↑ "2022 World Junior Championships". International Figure Skating.
  8. ↑ "ISU World Junior Figure Skating Championships 2022 allotted to Tallinn (EST)". International Skating Union. March 4, 2022.
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  10. ↑ Slater, Paula (April 17, 2022). "USA's Isabeau Levito skates to gold in Tallinn". Golden Skate.
  11. ↑ "Isabeau Levito (USA) strikes gold in Junior World debut". International Skating Union. April 17, 2022.
  12. ↑ "Memola (ITA), Smith/Deng (USA) sealing spots in Junior Final with win at ISU JGP Riga". International Skating Union. September 12, 2022.
  13. ↑ "More Skaters secure spots for the ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final". International Skating Union. October 10, 2022.
  14. ↑ "Shimada (JPN) edges Shin (KOR) in Junior Women's Short Program at JGP Final". International Skating Union. December 8, 2022.
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  16. ↑ Lim, Bo-mi (January 9, 2023). "15세 '은반 요정' 신지아 환상 점프에… 대학생 언니도 '끄덕'" [15-year-old 'Silver fairy' Jia Shin in a fantasy jump...]. The Dong-a Ilbo (in Korean).
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  22. 1 2 Park, Ji-min (October 15, 2023). "2024 강원 동계청소년올림픽대회 선발전 – 여자 주니어 우승 신지아, 준우승 김유성" [2024 Gangwon Winter Youth Olympic Games Selection Match – Women's Junior Winner Shin Ji-a, Runner-up Kim Yu-seong]. mfocus.kr (in Korean). Retrieved October 18, 2023.
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