Korean figure skater Shin Ji-a performs her short program in the women’s singles of the team event at the Winter Olympics at the Milano Ice Skating Arena, Feb. 6. Yonhap
The women’s singles figure skating competition will begin Tuesday at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, with a pair of Korean skaters set to take the ice.
Shin Ji-a, who won the national team trials in January, got her first taste of the Olympics in the team event Feb. 6 at the Milano Ice Skating Arena in Milan, and the 17-year-old will now make her first individual appearance. Lee Hae-in, 20, will be in for her Olympic debut after finishing as the runner-up to Shin in the national team trials.
This is Shin’s first season at the senior level, following four straight silver medals at the world juniors from 2022 to 2025 and another silver at the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics.
Her personal best overall score as a junior was 212.43, set at the 2024 world juniors. She established her season-best marks for the short program (74.47), the free skate (133.98) and the total score (208.45) at the Nebelhorn Trophy in September 2025.
Lee, the 2023 world silver medalist and the 2023 Four Continents champion, owns the personal best total of 225.47. For this season, her best scores are 67.06 in the short program, 132.06 in the free skate and 196.84 in the total score.
Also on Tuesday, the round-robin phase of the women’s curling tournament will continue with South Korea taking on Switzerland at Cortina Curling Olympic Stadium in Cortina d’Ampezzo, some 260 kilometers northeast of Milan.
Gim Eun-ji’s Korean team is No. 3 in World Curling’s team rankings, right behind Silvana Tirinzoni’s Switzerland.
