30 Facts About Lee Si-hyeong

Lee Si-hyeong is the 2022 CS Nebelhorn Trophy silver medalist, and a seven-time South Korean national medalist.

Lee Si-hyeong represented his country at the 2022 Winter Olympics.

Lee Si-hyeong's parents divorced in 2011, leaving his mother, Seung-hee, as the sole provider for him and his sister.

Lee Si-hyeong moved Lee, his sister, and grandmother to Namyangju, Gyeonggi Province so that Lee could pursue his figure skating career.

In 2016, Lee Si-hyeong's mother tore her rotator cuff ligament from rolling gimbap too hard, making her unable to work.

Lee Si-hyeong is a devout Protestant and currently attends Korea University, where he studies sports science.

Lee Si-hyeong began figure skating at the age of ten after being inspired by Yuna Kim's victories at the 2009 World Championships and 2010 Vancouver Olympics.

At the 2014 Korean Championships, Lee Si-hyeong placed second on the junior level and eighth on the senior level.

Lee Si-hyeong concluded his season with a fifth-place finish at the 2016 Korean Championships.

Lee Si-hyeong then went on to win the bronze medal at the 2017 Korean Championships and was selected to compete at the 2017 Four Continents Championships and the 2017 World Junior Championships, where he finished sixteenth at both events.

Lee Si-hyeong was named to the 2018 Four Continents and 2018 World Junior teams, following a fourth-place finish at the 2018 Korean Championships.

Lee Si-hyeong would go on to place twenty-second and eleventh, respectively, at those events.

Lee Si-hyeong placed fifteenth at Four Continents and then went on to place twenty-ninth in the short program at Junior Worlds, failing to advance to the free skate segment of the competition.

Lee Si-hyeong won his first international figure skating medal, a silver at 2019 Junior Grand Prix Latvia, before finishing sixth at 2019 Junior Grand Prix Croatia.

Lee Si-hyeong was able to grant that second berth, following his fifth-place finish at the Nebelhorn Trophy.

Lee Si-hyeong then went on to finish seventh at 2021 Asian Open Trophy.

At the 2022 World Championships, Lee Si-hyeong scored a personal best in the short program, finishing thirteenth in that segment of the competition but dropped to eighteenth overall following an error-ridden free skate.

Lee Si-hyeong would go on to describe this event as one of the "highlights of his career so far" in an interview following the season.

Lee Si-hyeong was selected to compete at the 2023 Winter University Games and 2023 Four Continents Championships, after finishing fourth at the 2023 Korean Championships.

Lee Si-hyeong earned the team a total of four points from his tenth-place short program and twelfth-place free skate.

Lee Si-hyeong specifically asked Farris to choreograph a program in a similar style to what Farris would have skated to.

Lee Si-hyeong announced his withdrawal from his Challenger assignments due to a ligament tear.

At the national Ranking Competition, Lee Si-hyeong came in ninth-place and ultimately wasn't selected to compete at the 2024 Four Continents Championships as a result.

Lee Si-hyeong followed this up by winning his fourth national silver medal at the 2024 South Korean Championships and was named to the 2024 World team.

Lee Si-hyeong began the season by winning the 2024 Asian Open Trophy.

Lee Si-hyeong then competed at the 2024 Korean Universiade and Asian Games Qualifiers, where he finished third.

In mid-January, Lee Si-hyeong finished ninth at the 2025 Winter World University Games in Turin, Italy.

One month later, although set to compete at the 2025 Four Continents Championships in Seoul, Lee Si-hyeong was forced to withdraw on the day of the short program after dislocating his left shoulder that resulted from a hard fall he took during one of the practice sessions.

Lee Si-hyeong subsequently withdrew from the 2025 World Championships due to this injury.

Lee Si-hyeong is known for primarily performing his jumps with both arms over his head, which he says helps him find balance in the air.