Choi Da-bin

Choi Da-bin's career sits in a quietly impressive spot for me. South Korea's figure skating spotlight has been dominated by Yuna Kim's legacy, so being the 2017 Asian Winter Games champion and cracking the top ten at the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics on home ice took real nerve. At just 156 cm she had to generate everything through precision rather than power. I find her record of multiple national medals and Four Continents top-ten finishes admirable precisely because it never came with much fanfare. She's the kind of athlete who carried the weight of a host nation's expectations and skated her programs cleanly when it mattered most.

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Name (English)

Choi Da-bin

Name (Japanese)

チェ・ダビン

Reading

ちぇ・だびん

Born

January 19, 2000 (age 26)

Origin

Seoul, South Korea

Height

156 cm

Occupation

figure skater

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Dragon

High school

Suri High School

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/dabin_choi_119/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choi%20Da-bin
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%81%E3%82%A7%E3%83%BB%E3%83%80%E3%83%93%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14935998

Tags

• figure skater

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.