Xinyu LIU

People's Republic of China

Figure Skating

Date of Birth: 16 Oct 1994

Age: 27

Gender: Male

Place of birth: CHANGCHUN

Birth Country:

People's Republic of China

Residence: BEIJING

Residence Country:

People's Republic of China

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank
Figure Skating	Ice Dance CHN WANG Shiyue / LIU Xinyu	12
	Team Event CHN WANG Shiyue / LIU Xinyu
	Team Event CHN People's Republic of China	5

Schedule

Location	Event	Status
Capital Indoor Stadium	Team Event - Ice Dance - Rhythm Dance	Finished
Capital Indoor Stadium	Team Event - Ice Dance - Free Dance	Finished
Capital Indoor Stadium	Ice Dance - Rhythm Dance	Finished
Capital Indoor Stadium	Ice Dance - Free Dance	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Athlete:

Historical Results

Olympic Games
Rank	Event	Year	Location
6	Team	2018	PyeongChang, KOR
	Ice Dance	2018	PyeongChang, KOR

World Championships
Rank	Event	Year	Location
13	Ice Dance	2021	Stockholm, SWE
15	Ice Dance	2019	Saitama, JPN
16	Ice Dance	2017	Helsinki, FIN
18	Ice Dance	2018	Milan, ITA
19	Ice Dance	2015	Shanghai, CHN
FNR	Ice Dance	2016	Boston, MA, USA

Four Continents Championships
Rank	Event	Year	Location
4	Ice Dance	2020	Seoul, KOR
5	Ice Dance	2018	Taipei City, TPE
7	Ice Dance	2019	Anaheim, CA, USA
7	Ice Dance	2017	Gangneung, KOR
7	Ice Dance	2015	Seoul, KOR
9	Ice Dance	2016	Taipei City, TPE
9	Ice Dance	2014	Taipei City, TPE

Grand Prix
Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Ice Dance	2020/21	Chongqing, CHN
4	Ice Dance	2019/20	Chongqing, CHN
5	Ice Dance	2019/20	Sapporo, JPN
6	Ice Dance	2018/19	Laval, QC, CAN
6	Ice Dance	2018/19	Hiroshima, JPN

World Team Trophy
Rank	Event	Year	Location
5	Team	2017	Tokyo, JPN
5	Team	2015	Tokyo, JPN

Hobbies:

Singing, reading, movies, music (isuresults.com)

Occupation:

Student

Education:

Jilin Institute of Physical Education

Languages spoken:

Mandarin Chinese, English

Club name:

Jilin Winter Sports Management Center

Coach:

Patrice Lauzon (CAN), Marie-France Dubreuil (CAN), Romain Haguenauer (FRA), Pascal Denis (CAN)

Debut:

2013 Winter Universiade (Ice dance - 13th), with Wang

Choreographer:

Marie-France Dubreuil (CAN), Romain Haguenauer (FRA)

National team:

2013

Start:

1999 in Changchun

Reason:

Wanted to become stronger. (Info 2018)

Training:

He and his partner trained in Montreal, Quebec (CAN) with four-time world champions Gabriella Papadakis/Guillaume Cizeron (FRA) and other international top teams, but returned to China due to the pandemic in 2020 and have been coached online since.

Memorable:

Winning gold at the 2017 Asian Winter Games in Sapporo, Japan. (Info 2018)

Hero:

Figure skaters Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir (CAN), five-time Olympic ice dance medallists (three gold, two silver) and three-time world champions. (Info 2018)

Influence:

His grandfather. (Info 2018)

Philosophy:

"When you're on the ice, what you need to do is the things you've done in daily training." (CFSA weibo, 4 Feb 2021)

General Interest

MOVING TO CANADA
Relocated, with his partner, to Montreal, Quebec (CAN) for training in 2018 until 2020, when they returned to China because of the COVID-19 pandemic. "Compared to before I think I've matured. We went to Montreal, Canada to train during the past two seasons, I feel I've known what I want, what we lack, and how to improve better through training with foreign coaches and living there." (CFSA weibo, 4 Feb 2021)

LONG CAREER
Has been competing internationally with Wang since 2013 and has achieved the best result of a Chinese ice dance couple at an ISU Championship by placing fourth at the 2020 Four Continents Championships.

Milestones

OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES
Made his Olympic Winter Games debut at PyeongChang 2018, where he was a member of the Chinese team that finished sixth (22nd in ice dance).

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Has competed at six consecutive World Championships (2015-2021, 2020 cancelled) with a best finish of 13th in 2021.

NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
Four-time national champion (2015, 2018, 2019, 2020).

TITLES
They won the 2020 Grand Prix Cup of China, but there were only Chinese athletes competing due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Social Media

https://www.instagram.com/xinyuleo/

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event

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