Kim Hyun-gyeom

What strikes me about Kim Hyun-gyeom is how quickly he stacked hardware while still a teenager. Sweeping both the men's and team titles at the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics is no small feat, and pairing that with a Junior Grand Prix Final silver tells me he wasn't a one-event wonder. I find it telling that South Korea, a country better known for its powerhouse women's skaters, leaned on a 2006-born talent to carry the men's flag at the 2026 Winter Olympics. That kind of trust at his age suggests the federation sees him as a long-term project, and I'm curious to watch how his senior career unfolds from here.

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Name (English)

Kim Hyun-gyeom

Name (Japanese)

金賢謙

Reading

きむ・ひょんぎょむ

Born

June 27, 2006 (age 20)

Origin

Seoul, South Korea

Occupation

figure skater

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Dog

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/hyungyeom17/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim%20Hyun-gyeom
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AD%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%92%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%82%AE%E3%83%A7%E3%83%A0
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q117305687

Tags

• figure skater

Last updated

September 18, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.