[VOD] Kim Yu-na : 25 February 2010 she won the free skate with a score of 150.06 points.

[News] Kim then competed in the ladies event at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games.

In the short program on February 23, she executed a triple lutz-triple toe loop combination, a triple flip and a double axel. Her spirals and her spins were all graded a level four. Her technical score of 44.70 points was the highest of the event. She also received superior scores in the program components, where she received 33.80 due to her interpretative artistic skills. As a result Kim scored 78.50 points, taking the lead by 4.72 over Mao Asada of Japan and achieving her best score in the short program. She set a new world record.



On February 25 she won the free skate with a score of 150.06 points, 18.34 ahead of Mao Asada, who came in second place in that segment of the competition. Kim landed a triple lutz-triple toe loop combination, a triple flip, a double axel-double toe loop-double loop combination, a double axel-triple toe loop combination, a triple salchow, a triple lutz and a double axel as well as receiving level fours for her spins and her spiral sequence. Combined with her grace and musical expression, both her technical score of 78.30 and her presentation of 71.76 were the highest of the night. She set a new world record for the free skate under the ISU Judging System.

Overall, Kim totaled 228.56 points, shattering her personal best and own old world record by a huge margin of 23.06 points.[24] She won the gold medal, becoming the first South Korean skater in any figure skating category to medal at the Olympic Games.

Kim's gold medal at the ladies' event is South Korea's first medal at the Winter Olympics in any event other than speed skating and short track.

[VOD] Kim Yu-na (김연아) : 25 February 2010
She won the free skate with a score of 150.06 points.