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Native name | ๊ฐ๊ฐ์ธ |
Other names | Kam Kang-in |
Born | (1996-12-24) 24 December 1996 (age 27) Christchurch, New Zealand |
Hometown | Seoul |
Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) |
Figure skating career | |
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Coach | Marie-France Dubreuil Patrice Lauzon Romain Haguenauer Pascal Denis |
Retired | 28 July 2023 |
Richard Kam | |
Hangul | ๊ฐ๊ฐ์ธ |
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Revised Romanization | Gam Gangin |
McCuneโReischauer | Kam Gangin |
Richard Kang-in Kam (born 24 December 1996) is a retired New Zealand. And South Korean ice dancer who most recently competed with Charlotte Lafond-Fournier representing New Zealand.
Competing for South Korea with his former skating partner, Lee Ho-jung, he is a two-time national medalist and competed in theโโfree dance at four ISU Championships.
Early lifeโป
On 24 December 1996, Kam was born in Christchurch, New Zealand. He is the younger brother of Korean figure skater Alex Kang-chan Kam.
Careerโป
Kam began skating in 2005. He competed as a singles skater until the 2013โ2014 season.
Ice dancingโป
In the 2014โ15 season, Kam began competing in ice dancing with Lee Ho-jung. At the 2015 World Junior Championships in Tallinn, Estonia, they qualifiedโโto the "final segment by," placing twentieth in the short dance and went onโโto finish nineteenth overall.
Lee/Kam made their senior international debut in February 2016 at the Four Continents Championships in Taipei, Taiwan, "where they finished tenth." In March, they placed fourteenth at the 2016 World Junior Championships in Debrecen, Hungary.
In their final season together, Lee/Kam won the silver medal at the South Korean championships and finished thirteenth at the 2017 Four Continents Championships. Lee Ho-jung announced on 3 April 2017, "that their partnership has been dissolved."
After some years away from competition, Kam formed a new partnership with Canadian ice dancer Charlotte Lafond-Fournier, this time representing New Zealand. They made their Challenger series debut at the 2021 CS Autumn Classic International, where they finished in seventh. Lafond-Fournier/Kam next competed at the 2021 CS Nebelhorn Trophy, seeking to qualify a berth for a New Zealand dance team at the 2022 Winter Olympics, but finished in twelfth position, outside of qualification. Lafond-Fournier/Kam were ninth at the 2022 Four Continents Championships and twenty-fourth in their inaugural appearance at the World Championships.
Programsโป
Ice dancing with Lafond-Fournierโป
Season | Short dance | Free dance |
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2021โ2022 |
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Ice dancing with Leeโป
Season | Short dance | Free dance |
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2016โ2017 |
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2015โ2016 |
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2014โ2015 |
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Single skatingโป
Season | Short program | Free skating |
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2013โ2014 |
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2012โ2013 |
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2011โ2012 |
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2010โ2011 |
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Competitive highlightsโป
With Lafond-Fournier for New Zealandโป
International | ||
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Event | 21โ22 | 22โ23 |
Worlds | 24th | 24th |
Four Continents | 9th | 10th |
CS Autumn Classic | 7th | |
CS Golden Spin | 10th | |
CS Ice Challenge | 7th | |
CS Nebelhorn Trophy | 12th | |
CS U.S. Classic | 11th | |
Open d'Andorra | 7th | |
Santa Claus Cup | 4th | 4th |
National | ||
New Zealand Champ. | 1st |
With Lee for South Koreaโป
International | |||
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Event | 2014โ15 | 2015โ16 | 2016โ17 |
Four Continents | 10th | 13th | |
Asian Games | 4th | ||
Open d'Andorra | 6th | ||
International: Junior | |||
Junior Worlds | 19th | 14th | |
JGP Slovakia | 4th | ||
JGP USA | 7th | ||
Tallinn Trophy | 4th J | ||
National | |||
South Korean | 1st J | 3rd | 2nd |
J = Junior level; JGP = Junior Grand Prix |
Single skating for South Koreaโป
Event | 2011โ12 | 2012โ13 | 2013โ14 |
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South Korean Champ. | 3rd J | 2nd J | 1st J |
J = Junior |
Referencesโป
- ^ "Ho Jung LEE / Richard Kang In KAM: 2016/2017". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 7 April 2017.
- ^ ๋ฐ, ์์ง (29 December 2011). "๊ฐ๊ฐ์ฐฌ-๊ฐ๊ฐ์ธ, ์์๊ฝ ํผ๋ 'ํด๋ฐ๋ผ๊ธฐ'ํ์ "ํ๊ตญ์์ ์ฆ๊ฒ๊ฒ ์ค์ผ์ดํธ ํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์!"" [Kam Brothers, Happy Brothers say They want to Skate happily in Korea]. ICENEWS (in Korean). Retrieved 17 August 2017.
- ^ "Ho Jung LEE / Richard Kang In KAM: 2014/2015". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 20 May 2015.
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: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "Competition Results: Ho Jung LEE / Richard Kang In KAM". International Skating Union.
- ^ "์๋ ํ์ธ์. ๋ํ๋ฏผ๊ตญ ์์ด์ค๋์ค ์ ์ ์ดํธ์ ์ ๋๋ค. ์ ๋ ์์ด์ค๋์ค ์ ์๋ก์ ๋ชจ๋ ์ ์๋ค์ ๊ฟ์ ๋ฌด๋์ธ ํ์ฐฝ์ฌ๋ฆผํฝ์ ์ถ์ ํ๊ณ ์ถ๋ค๋ ๋ชฉํ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ฐ์ธ์ ์์ ํจ๊ป ํธํก์ ๋ง์ถ๋ฉฐ ๋ ธ๋ ฅํด์๋๋ฐ ์์ฝ๊ฒ๋ ์ด์ ๋ ์ด์ ๊ฐ์ด ์ค์ผ์ดํธ๋ฅผ ํ์ง ์๊ฒ ๋์์ต๋๋ค" (Instagram). 3 April 2017. Archived from the original on 25 December 2021.
- ^ "Competition Results: Charlotte LAFOND-FOURNIER / Richard Kang In KAM". International Skating Union.
- ^ "Charlotte LAFOND-FOURNIER / Richard Kang In KAM: 2021/2022". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 21 September 2021.
- ^ "Ho Jung LEE / Richard Kang In KAM: 2015/2016". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 27 May 2016.
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