Nathan Chen (born May 5, 1999) is an American figure skater who competes in the men’s singles discipline. He is the 2018 World champion, the 2018 Winter Olympic bronze medalist in the team event, the 2017–18 Grand Prix Final champion, the 2016–17 Grand Prix Final silver medalist, the 2017 Four Continents champion, and a two-time U.S. national champion (2017, 2018). Earlier in his career, he won bronze at the 2013–14 Grand Prix Final and the 2014 World Junior Championships, along with gold at the 2015–16 Junior Grand Prix Final.
Chen is the first and currently only skater competing with five different types of quadruple jumps—toe loop, salchow, loop, flip and lutz.
Nathan Chen was born in Salt Lake City, Utah and he has four older siblings. He attended West High School in Salt Lake City and Rim of the World High School in Lake Arrowhead, California, and graduated from California Connections Academy. In addition to figure skating, Chen trained in ballet with Ballet West Academy and competed in gymnastics at the state and regional levels for seven years. He is a freshman at Yale University, in the class of 2022.