Denis Ten

Denis Ten was a Kazakhstani figure skater, born in Almaty in 1993 as a member of the Korean minority in Kazakhstan. He won the bronze medal at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, was World silver medalist in 2013 and bronze medalist in 2015, and took the 2015 Four Continents Championships and the 2017 Winter Universiade. He was the first skater from Kazakhstan to stand on the podium at the World Championships, the Four Continents Championships, the Asian Winter Games and the Olympic Games. He qualified two spots for his country in the men's event at the 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympics, produced his own ice show, Denis Ten and Friends, and served as ambassador for the Almaty 2022 Olympic bid. He was murdered in Almaty in July 2018.