American ice skater Nathan Chen has won his first Olympic Gold medal in Beijing, with a flawless performance. Today we will discuss about Nathan Chen: Gold medal performance| Gold medal ceremony
Nathan Chen: Gold medal performance| Gold medal ceremony
Nathan Wei Chen (Chinese: ; born May 5, 1999) is an American figure skater who is the 2022 Olympic champion, [13] three-time world champion (2018, 2019, 2021), 2017 champion of the Four Continents, three Barr’s Grand Prix Final Champion (2017, 2018, 2019), and a six-time US National Champion (2017–22). At the junior level, Chen is the 2015–16 Junior Grand Prix Final champion, the 2013–14 Junior Grand Prix Final bronze medalist and the 2014 World Junior bronze medalist. Chen also helped the US Olympic team win a bronze medal in the 2018 team event and a silver medal in the 2022 team event.
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| Native name | 陈巍 |
| Full name | Nathan Wei Chen |
| Country represented |  United States |
| Born | May 5, 1999 Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S. |
| Height | 5 ft 6 in (168 cm)[1] |
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| Choreographer | Shae-Lynn Bourne |
Gold medal performance
Team USA chased gold on ice at the 2022 Winter Olympics after 22-year-old Nathan Chen broke a world record with a nearly flawless performance that included two quadruple jumps and a triple axel. Alexandra Szmigel / Reuters
Nathan Chen has won his Olympic gold medal.
The 22-year-old won the men’s singles event, coming back from his disappointing 2018 Pyeongchang performance to make a winning comeback.
The reigning world champion scored 218.63 in his free skate and 332.60 overall.
Japan’s Yuma Kagiyama stumbled on the quad loop, eliminating any chance of victory, but held out for silver. Fellow Japanese skater Shoma Uno stumbled upon a quad flip of his own, but earned the bronze.
Gold medal ceremony
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Like most champions at the 2022 Beijing Olympics, figure skater Nathan Chen of the United States was assigned a stuffed animal named Bing Dwayne Dwayne, the Games’ chubby panda mascot.
Tradition may have left fans with a simple question: Where are the medals?
Don’t worry, Olympic fans. Chen will receive his gold medal on Friday at a special ceremony at Medal Plaza in Beijing, complete with “The Star-Spangled Banner” and all the pageantry that should come with winning the top prize at the Games.
Nathan Chen won the gold medal in the men’s singles figure skating competition on Wednesday.
According to the Associated Press, the system was introduced at the Calgary Games in 1988.
Immediately after the competition, winning athletes in Beijing receive a plush toy panda, which is stuffed inside a plastic shell meant to represent snow. Bing, in fact, means snow in Chinese. The toy is also decorated with a golden wreath.
A similar tradition emerged at the Pyeongchang Games four years ago. There, soon after winning gold, silver or bronze, medalists received a striped white tiger Suhorang, which served as the mascot of those games.
