Jeffrey Chen

Jeffrey Chen (born July 21, 2002) is an American ice dancer, who currently skates with Yahli Pedersen.

They are the 2023 JGP Turkey silver medalists.

With his former skating partner, Katarina Wolfkostin, they were the 2021 U.S. junior national champions, the 2021 French JGP champions, the 2021 JGP Slovenia silver medalists, the 2020 U.S. junior national silver medalists, and the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics bronze medalists.

Jeffrey Chen was born in Fremont, California, on July 21, 2002, to Taiwanese parents, Hsiu-Hui Tseng and Chih-Hsiu Chen.

His older sister Karen also represents the U.S. internationally in singles.

Chen enjoys hip-hop dance, gaming, and photography.

He has a pet sun conure named Mango.

Chen began skating in 2010 after following his older sister Karen onto the ice.

He competed in singles until the 2014–15 season and was the 2014 U.S. national juvenile pewter medalist.

As a singles skater, Chen trained in Riverside, California, alongside his sister under Tammy Gambill.

Chen switched to ice dance and teamed up with Layla Karnes in the 2015–16 season.

Together, they were the 2016 U.S. national juvenile ice dance champions and the 2017 U.S. national intermediate silver medalists.

Chen then moved to Michigan to live with his mother, and he then changed coaches and began training with Marina Zoueva before the next season.

He competed with Gianna Buckley during the 2017–18 season, winning the 2018 U.S. national novice silver medal.

Chen then skated two months with Anna Lavrova during the 2018–19 season, but the partnership ended before the 2019 U.S. Championships.

Chen began skating with Katarina Wolfkostin in 2019, and he moved to train with her coaches, Igor Shpilband and Pasquale Camerlengo, in Novi, Michigan.

They placed fifth in their international debut at 2019 JGP France.

Wolfkostin/Chen improved to fourth at 2019 JGP Russia after placing second in the free dance.

Wolfkostin/Chen won their first international medal at the 2019 Golden Spin of Zagreb, earning the silver medal behind Ushakova/Nekrasov of Russia.

They won the inaugural U.S. Ice Dance Final to qualify for the 2020 U.S. Championships.

Wolfkostin/Chen were named as the sole ice dance entrant on the U.S. team for the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics.

They were fifth after the rhythm dance, before placing third in the free dance, to win the bronze medal overall behind Russians Khavronina/Cirisano and Tyutyunina/Shustitsky.

Their medal was the first won by Team USA at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics.

Wolfkostin/Chen were drawn as part of Team Determination for the team event, alongside singles skaters Cha Young-hyun of South Korea and Nella Pelkonen of Finland and pairs skaters Brooke McIntosh / Brandon Toste of Canada.

They placed fourth in the free dance segment to help Team Determination finish fourth after losing the tie-breaker.

Wolfkostin/Chen placed fourth in the rhythm dance and second in the free dance to win the silver medal at the 2020 U.S. Championships, behind Nguyen/Kolesnik.

Assigned to compete at their first World Junior Championships, they placed seventh.

The season was shortened due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with domestic competitions initially changed to a virtual format, leading up to the 2021 U.S. Championships.

Wolfkostin/Chen placed first in the rhythm dance and first in the free dance in both rounds of the 2020 Virtual ISP Points Challenge, and second in the free dance at the 2020 Virtual U.S. Championship Series.

Wolfkostin/Chen then competed at the 2021 U.S. Championships, after Chen was medically cleared to skate after a second opinion was obtained following a knee injury, originally thought to be an incapacitating ACL tear.

Despite the injury, they placed first in both the rhythm and free dance, earning them the gold medal for the national title.

Returning to international competition for the first time in over a year, Wolfkostin/Chen began on the Junior Grand Prix by competing at the first French JGP of 2021, in Courchevel.

They placed first in both segments, easily winning the gold medal.

At their second event, 2021 JGP Slovenia, they placed third in the rhythm dance but made up ground in the free dance, placing second in that segment and placing second overall.

Assigned to their first senior event just a few weeks later, Wolfkostin/Chen placed ninth at the 2021 CS Cup of Austria.

Their JGP results had qualified them for the 2021–22 Junior Grand Prix Final, but it was subsequently canceled as a result of travel restrictions prompted by the COVID-19 Omicron variant.

Rather than seeking to defend their national junior title, Wolfkostin/Chen opted to compete as seniors at the 2022 U.S. Championships.

They finished in sixth place overall, notably beating former national pewter medalists Carreira/Ponomarenko.

When the U.S. team was announced for the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, Wolfkostin/Chen were named as alternates.

Due to the pandemic, the 2022 World Junior Championships could not be held as scheduled in Sofia in early March and, as a result, were rescheduled for Tallinn in mid-April.