# Denis Ten

**QAZ.BIO** · Person
**Review date:** 20.10.2026
**Profile ID:** `qbio:person:6dc3beaf96fbfd793005`
**Data status:** archival source
**Sources:** 6
**Profile:** <https://qaz.bio/en/p/total-observed-person-34200>

## Short brief

Kazakh figure skater (1993–2018). Sochi 2014 bronze medallist, two-time world medallist and Four Continents champion.

## Biography from sources

### Birth date and place

Born on 13 June 1993 in Almaty.

### Biography

Denis Ten was a Kazakh men’s singles figure skater. He became Kazakhstan’s first Olympic figure skating medallist by winning bronze at Sochi 2014. He also won world silver in 2013, world bronze in 2015 and the Four Continents title in 2015. He moved to the United States for training in 2010. Ten died in Almaty on 19 July 2018, aged 25.

### Career from source

- 1999 – started skating.
- 2008 – won the ISU Junior Grand Prix event in Gomel, Kazakhstan’s first medal at an ISU competition.
- 2010 – placed 11th at the Vancouver Olympics and moved to the United States for training.
- 2013 – world silver medallist.
- 2014 – Olympic bronze medallist in Sochi.
- 2015 – Four Continents champion and world bronze medallist.
- 2018 – competed at his third Olympics, in PyeongChang.

## Facts from the source

- **Source status:** source confirmed
- **Mentions:** 158
- **Source group:** Total
- **encyclopedic source title:** Тен, Денис Юрьевич

## Sources

- **isu-skating.com** · archival source · 20.10.2026 · <https://www.isu-skating.com/en/figure-skating/skaters/denis-ten/>
- **qaz.bio** · archival source · 20.10.2026 · <https://qaz.bio/evidence-archive/d9dcc2d54436dac0ea815951bdf644b2849acaa920ef7d91d02e99151f236348>
- **isu-skating.com** · source available · <https://www.isu-skating.com/en/news/kazakh-figure-skater-denis-ten-dies-at-the-age-of-25/>
- **results.isu.org** · source available · <https://results.isu.org/bios/isufs_cr_00008858.htm>
- **total.qdev.run** · source available · <https://total.qdev.run/entity/34200>
- **ru.wikipedia.org** · source available · <https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%BD,_%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%81_%D0%AE%D1%80%D1%8C%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87>

[Profile JSON](https://qaz.bio/api/v1/profiles/p/total-observed-person-34200)