Nathan Chen

Nathan Chen: Biography in Details

Who is Nathan Chen?

Nathan Chen is an American figure skater. Nathan Chen is popularly known as “the Quad King” and recently won the 2022 Olympic gold championship.

He showed five types of quadruple jumps in competition and became the first skater to do so. The jumps are the toe loop, Salchow, loop, flip, and Lutz.

Later, he set another record of eight quadruple jumps across a single competition (2018 World Championships).

Nathan Chen- Age, Parents, Siblings, Ethnicity, Education

Nathan Chen was born on May 5, 1999, in  Chatham, Ontario. His Chinese name is Chén Wē. and has a Chinese origin. He is a Taurus zodiac according to western astrologers.

His father Zhidong Chen is a medical researcher with a Ph.D. who came to the Us with a student visa. His mother is a medical translator, Hetty Wang who is originally from Beijing.

Nathan Chen is the youngest of five children and has four older siblings: Alice, Janice, Tony, and Colin.

Talking about his educational background, he joined Yale University in the fall of 2018, majoring in Statistics and Data Science.

He was also enrolled in other educational institutions like Rim of the World High School, West High School, California Connections Academy.

Regarding his training, he trained in ballet with Ballet West Academy.

As a result, Nathan Chen has competed in gymnastics at the state and regional levels for seven years.

Nathan Chen- Professional Life, Career

To begin with his career, he started skating in the year 2002. He took classes from the coaches like Marina Zoueva, Evgenia Chernyshova, Stephanie Grosscup, Karel Kovar, and Amanda Kovar.

His former choreographer was Shae-Lynn Bourne.

Chen has contracts with eleven companies, including Team USA sponsors like Comcast, Toyota, Visa, and Bridgestone.

Championship

• 2022 Olympic gold champion in figure skating
• U.S. Olympic team bronze medal in 2018
• The U.S. Olympic team silver medal in 2022
• a three-time World champion (2018, 2019, 2021),
• the 2017 Four Continents champion,
• a three-time Grand Prix Final champion (2017, 2018, 2019)
• six-time U.S. national champion (2017–22) in figure skating.
• 2015–16 Junior Grand Prix Final champion
• 2013–14 Junior Grand Prix Final bronze medalist
• 2014 World Junior bronze medalist

Nathan Chen- Net worth, Salary

Nathan Chen has a net worth of $2.5 million, earned from his skating and gymnastics career starting from a young age. His net worth is inclusive of his car, house, and investments.

He earned $18,000 in each 2017 Grand Prix of Figure Skating series event.

Similarly, he earns handsome paycheque winning in World Championships but his annual earnings, salary is unknown.

Social Media

Regarding his social media presence, he is active on Instagram with the username @nathanwchen and has 571k followers.

He also has 105.6k followers in his official Twitter account which was created back in November 2011. While he has 37k followers on Facebook. Other than this, he is unavailable on TikTok.

Body Features- Height, Weight

He stands tall with a height of 5 feet and 6 inches. He has an average body weight and other body statistics like shoe size, dress size, biceps, and chest.

On top of that, he has a fair body complexion, featuring black eyes and black hair.

Nathan Chen- Rumors, Controversy

Nonetheless, Nathan Chen has managed to keep himself away from rumors and controversies that impact his image in front of the public.

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