Vincent ZHOU

United States of America

Figure Skating

Date of Birth: 25 Oct 2000

Age: 21

Gender: Male

Place of birth: SAN JOSE, CA

Birth Country:

United States of America

Residence: PALO ALTO, CA

Residence Country:

United States of America

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Figure Skating	Men Single Skating	WD
	Team Event USA United States of America	2

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Capital Indoor Stadium	Team Event - Men Single Skating - Free Skating	Finished
	Capital Indoor Stadium	Men Single Skating - Short Program	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Athlete:

Historical Results

Olympic Games
Rank	Event	Year	Location
6	Men Single Skating	2018	PyeongChang, KOR

World Championships
Rank	Event	Year	Location
3	Men Single Skating	2019	Saitama, JPN
14	Men Single Skating	2018	Milan, ITA
25	Men Single Skating	2021	Stockholm, SWE

Four Continents Championships
Rank	Event	Year	Location
3	Men Single Skating	2019	Anaheim, CA, USA

World Junior Championships
Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Men Single Skating	2017	Taipei City, TPE
5	Men Single Skating	2016	Debrecen, HUN

Grand Prix
Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Men Single Skating	2021/22	Las Vegas, NV, USA
2	Men Single Skating	2021/22	Tokyo, JPN
2	Men Single Skating	2020/21	Las Vegas, NV, USA
4	Men Single Skating	2018/19	Hiroshima, JPN
5	Men Single Skating	2018/19	Everett, WA, USA

World Team Trophy
Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Team	2019	Fukuoka, JPN

Music:

Short Program: Vincent (Starry Starry Night) by Don McLean, Josh Groban
Free Skating: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (soundtrack) by Tan Dun; Rising Sun by Kiyoshi Yoshida

Hobbies:

Hiking, writing poetry, music. (isuresults.com, usfigureskatingfanzone.com)

Occupation:

University student

Education:

Studies at Brown University, RI since 2019, but is currently on a gap year. He plans to return in autumn 2022. He is still undecided about his major, but is interested in business management and business development. (Athlete, 25 Sep 2021)

Family:

Father, Max Zhou (software engineer). Mother, Fei Ge (software engineer). Sister, Vivian.

Languages spoken:

English, Mandarin

Club name:

SC of San Francisco

Coach:

Mie Hamada (JPN)
Tom Zakrajsek (USA)
Drew Meekins (USA)

Sporting relatives:

Sister Vivian (Diving): Competed at national level.

Debut:

Bavarian Open 2017 (Single skating - 1st)

Injuries:

September 2013: Knee surgery beause of a torn meniscus. Missed most of the 2013/14 and 2014/15 seasons. (govincentzhou.com, Info 2018)
2011: Stress fracture of his right foot. Missed two-and-a-half months. (govincentzhou.com)

Choreographer:

Lori Nichol (CAN)

National team:

2011

Start:

2006 in Palo Alto, CA.

Reason:

Discovered figure skating at a friend's birthday party. (govincentzhou.com)

Ambition:

To win an Olympic medal.
To start his own sports consulting business.
To climb all 58 mountains in Colorado that are above 14,000 feet in elevation (so far he has climbed two). (Athlete, 25 Sep 2021)

Training:

Trains in Colorado Springs, CO.

Memorable:

Winning the bronze medal at the 2019 World Championships.

Making the 2018 Olympic team. (Athlete, 25 Sep 2021)

Hero:

He looked up to Olympic champions Brian Boitano (USA) and Evan Lysacek (USA) when he was young. "Now that I kind of reached that Olympic level it is hard to idolise someone when you are developing your own journey. Of course I still respect all those great skaters." (Athlete, 25 Sep 2021)

Influence:

His mother Fei. "She has been the number one person in my life forever." (Athlete, 25 Sep 2021)

Ritual:

When he gets nervous, he likes to do things in a perfectionistic way, like folding his jacket and placing his skate guards straight. (Athlete, 25 Sep 2021)

Philosophy:

"From every situation, positive or negative, there is always something to learn from." (Athlete, 25 Sep 2021)

General Interest

FIRST OLYMPIC EXPERIENCE
Qualified for the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games by placing third at the 2018 U.S. National Championship. "There were five men in the U.S. who were competing for three spots. I think I was probably the least likely because I had a small body of work in my first year as a senior internationally and my components wouldn't go up immediately. So I had to push my technical content very hard and I started to try to do all these quads. It was really, really difficult. But when I succeed at the Olympics, it felt really good." (Athlete, 25 Sep 2021)

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP SHOCK
Failed to qualify for the final free skating at the 2021 World Championships after a poor short programme, when he ranked 25th. As a result, Team USA needed to send a skater to the Olympic qualifying competition to secure the third quota spot. Zhou went and got the spot. "I handled last year's Worlds actually pretty well. Immediately I just started analysing and thinking what went wrong. We considered all the possibilities, everything, and we came up with a couple of action steps to take that would help prevent that from happening again and help me have a much smoother season for the Olympics." (Athlete, 25 Sep 2021)

SACRIFICES
His mother quit her job to be able to commute with him to Riverside, CA, and stay with him there during the week when he was younger. (govincentzhou.com)

CHINESE HERITAGE
His parents are Chinese immigrants from Beijing. His Chinese name is Zhou Qifang. He speaks Mandarin and attended Chinese school every Saturday until he was 12. (cosmopolitan.com, 5 Jan 2018)

Milestones

Finished sixth in his Olympic Winter Games debut at PyeongChang 2018 where he was the youngest athlete on the U.S. Olympic team (17 years 114 days).

2019 World Championships single bronze medallist scoring a season's best of 186.99 points.

2017 World junior title and finished fifth at the 2016 World Junior Championships.

In winning his first major senior title (2021 Skate America) he ended Nathan Chen‘s (USA) epic win streak that lasted more than three seasons and included three world titles. “Obviously I don’t expect to win everything — I’m not Nathan Chen — but it’s an honour to be competing in such a deep men’s field. It’s also an honour at this competition to win the gold medal.” (olympics.nbcsports.com, 24 Oct 2021)

Has performed four different types of quadruple jumps in competition (Lutz, Salchow, flip, and toeloop).

ISU Junior Grand Prix Bratislava (International junior debut - single skating - 2nd)

Social Media

https://www.instagram.com/govincentzhou/

Legend

:: Silver
WD:: Withdrawn

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