Background
Kim Na-Young was born in 1990 in Jeonju, South of Korea and moved to Incheon when she was 5 years old.
Kim Na-Young was born in 1990 in Jeonju, South of Korea and moved to Incheon when she was 5 years old.
As of April 2010, she was ranked 48th in the world by the International Skating Union (International Skating Union). She began skating at age five. She landed her first double axel jump at age 10.
She placed 4th on the novice level at her first international competition, the 2002 of Zagreb.
She was 12 years old at the time. She had a knee injury at age 13.
Kim was given her first Junior Grand Prix assignments in the 2005-2006 season, when she was 15. She placed 16th in the 2005–2006 International Skating Union Junior Grand Prix event in Croatia and 19th in Estonia.
She was given two Junior Grand Prix assignments again in the 2006–2007 International Skating Union Junior Grand Prix season.
lieutenant was her first international medal. She was injured in a car accident in December, 2006. She was sent to the 2007 Four Continents Championships, her senior international debut, where she placed 13th.
Kim began the 2007-2008 season on the Junior Grand Prix.
She was sent to the 2008 Four Continents Championships, where she placed 4th. Following this, she was sent to the 2008 World Figure Skating Championships and finished 19th.
Kim began the 2008-2009 skating season at the Nebelhorn Trophy. She has been assigned to the 2008 Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai Trophy and will also compete in 2008 Cup of Russia due to the vacancies created by some skaters pulling out of the event.
She is a two-time South Korean national champion (2007 & 2008). She has won two bronze medals on the Junior Grand Prix circuit. Later that season, she won the silver medal on the junior level at the South Korean Championships. She placed 16th at her first event and then won the bronze medal at the event in Taipei. But she competed through injury and became the 2007 South Korean Junior national champion. At the end of the season, she competed in the Asian Figure Skating Championships and won the silver medal. During the 2007–2008 International Skating Union Junior Grand Prix season, she placed 21st at the event in Austria, but won her second Junior Grand Prix bronze medal at the event in Croatia. At the 2007-2008 South Korean Figure Skating Championships, with Kim Yuna not competing, Kim Na-young won the gold medal.
