South Korean figure skater Kim Chae-yeon captured a stunning gold medal in her Asian Winter Games debut in China on Thursday, beating three-time world champion Kaori Sakamoto with a clean free skate.

at Heilongjiang Ice Events Training Center Multifunctional Hall in Harbin. Kim's previous personal high had been 71.39 points, set at the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships in February 2023.

Kim Chaeyeon, 19, has won the gold medal at the International Skating Union's (ISU) Four Continents Figure Skating ...

South Korean figure skater Kim Chae-yeon secured victory in the women’s singles at the 2025 ISU Four Continents Figure ...

Though the 32-year-old, Beijing Winter Olympics gold medalist was not competing, his presence was still felt. Han served as a ...

HARBIN, China—Isabella Gamez and Aleksandr Korovin blazed a trail in a territory unfamiliar to a tropical nation like the Philippines. They could break more barriers in the figure skating ...

Shishkova and Naumov were coaches at The Skating Club of Boston, where Thai figure skater Teekhree Silpa ... the 22-year-old Silpa-Archa told AFP in Harbin. "I wanted to take them on an ...

Gold medalist Cha Junhwan (C) of South Korea, silver medalist Kagiyama Yuma (L) of Japan and bronze medalist Mikhail Shaidorov of Kazakhstan pose for photo at the victory ceremony for the men single ...

As the hometown of a number of Winter Olympic champions, including speed skater Zhang Hong and figure skating pair Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo, Harbin also hosted the 3rd Asian Winter Games in 1996 ...

HARBIN, China (AP) — Associated Press photographers captured the most exciting moments of the first six days of the Asian Winter Games, including some gravity-defying moves from ice hockey, figure ...