Huang Yihang
Huang Yihang is a Chinese pair skater. With his skating partner Zhang Jiaxuan, he is the 2024 Chinese national champion, the 2024–25 Junior Grand Prix Final champion, and a two-time ISU Junior Grand Prix gold medalist.
With former skating partner, Wang Yuchen, he is the 2020 Cup of China silver medalist, the 2020 Chinese junior national champion, and placed in the top eight at the 2020 World Junior Championships.
Personal life
Huang was born on May 30, 2002, in Qiqihar, Heilongjiang, China.He looks up to Olympic champion pair team, Sui/Han.
Career
Partnership with Wang
Huang started skating in 2010.He teamed up with Wang Yuchen prior to the 2017–18 season to pursue pair skating. They were initially coached by Luan Bo. Debuting at the 2018 Chinese Championships, the pair finished eighth. They would begin training under Zhao Hongbo, Guan Jinlin, and Zhang Tianci in Beijing after the season ended.
2018–2019 season
Wang/Huang were added to the Chinese national team ahead of the season to replace an injured Yu Xiaoyu / Zhang Hao. They made their junior international debut on the Junior Grand Prix, placing eighth in Canada and 13th in the Czech Republic. In early December, Wang/Huang competed at the Russian-Chinese Winter Youth Games, where they finished fourth. They ended their season at the 2019 Chinese Championships, finishing fifth.2019–2020 season
Wang/Huang opened their season on the Junior Grand Prix and finished eighth at both their events in the United States and Croatia. In between the two JGP events, they competed at the 2020 Chinese Championships, where they won the junior title by 0.01 points ahead of Wang Huidi / Jia Ziqi and Li Jiaen / Wang Zijian.Wang/Huang were assigned to compete at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics in Lausanne, Switzerland in January. On being selected, Wang said: "I am very excited to participate in such a large competition for the first time. In order to achieve our competition goal, I will train hard and strive to skate in my best form and win glory for the country." Wang/Huang went on to place fifth in the individual event. Huang expressed dissatisfaction with their performance and called it a "learning opportunity." As part of Team Future during the team event, they again placed fifth to help the team finish seventh overall.
Wang/Huang finished their season at the 2020 World Junior Championships in March. Placing eighth in the short program and sixth in the free skating, they ended in eighth place overall.
2020–2021 season
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Junior Grand Prix series was cancelled and the Grand Prix events were limited to domestic competitors or skaters who trained in the host nation's immediate geographic region. As a result, Wang/Huang were assigned to make their senior debut at the 2020 Cup of China. They finished second in both segments to earn the silver medal behind Peng Cheng / Jin Yang.In January 2021, Wang/Huang participated in the New Year's Day Ice Carnival, a domestic team competition held among the Chinese national team, as part of Sui Wenjing's Team Elite alongside Jin Boyang, Chen Hongyi, Wang Yihan, and Chen Hong / Sun Zhuoming. They lost the competition to Han Cong's Team Sharp Blades after falling behind on the first day of competition.
2021–2022 season
Wang/Huang were assigned to compete at the 2021 CS Nebelhorn Trophy to attempt to qualify a third berth for Chinese pairs at the 2022 Winter Olympics. They placed fourth in the short program, third among the teams seeking the three available spots, but dropped to sixth place after three falls in their free skate, and did not qualify a place.They went on to win the bronze medal at the 2021 CS Asian Open Trophy. The pair parted ways following the season.
Partnership with Zhang
2022–2023 and 2023–2024 seasons
For the 2022–23 figure skating season, Huang teamed up with Zhang Jiaxuan. Upon getting together, the pair began training in Beijing with Ding Yang as their coach.In their first appearance together at the Chinese Championships, Huang/Zhang won the bronze medal. The following year, they won the silver medal at the 2023 Chinese Championships.
2024–2025 season: Junior international debut and JGP Final gold
On the 2024–25 ISU Junior Grand Prix circuit, Zhang/Huang made their international debut. The pair won gold both their assigned events, 2024 JGP Latvia and 2024 JGP Poland. With these results, the pair qualified for the 2024–25 Junior Grand Prix Final in Grenoble, France as the highest ranking junior pair team.In late November, Zhang/Huang won gold at the 2024 Chinese Championships. The following week, they would win the Junior Grand Prix Final by over twenty points. Regarding this win, Zhang said, "It is a great honour for us to be here at the Junior Grand Prix Final. We hope to improve to be able to do even better in the future. Our goal is not only to improve on our technical but also on our artistry."
They concluded the season with a fifth-place finish at the 2025 World Junior Championships in Debrecen, Hungary. “We will be skating in seniors,” said Zhang regarding next season. “We think we have to make our technical elements stronger and more difficult so that we can compete with the seniors.”
2025–2026 season: Senior international debut
Making their senior international debut as a pair, Zhang and Huang opened the season by winning the gold medal at the 2025 Asian Open Trophy. They were subsequently selected to compete at the ISU Skate to Milano, the final qualifying event for the 2026 Winter Olympics, where they won the gold medal and thus secured an Olympic berth for Chinese pair skating.In late October, Zhang and Huang made their senior Grand Prix debut at the 2025 Cup of China, where they finished in fourth place. "I feel still feel a bit nervous because it is my first senior Grand Prix event," Zhang confessed after the free skate. "We've made a few mistakes, like small mistakes in the program. This is okay, but it's not our best level, and we want to keep working on the program to do better next time." A couple weeks later, they finished sixth at the 2025 Finlandia Trophy.
In December, Zhang and Huang won the bronze medal at the 2026 Chinese Championships behind Sui/Han and Guo/Zhang.
The following month, Zhang and Huang placed fourth at the 2026 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships in their debut at this event. “Coming from the provincial championships, I feel that our speed might be much worse than of other senior athletes,” said Huang after the free skate. “We gradually improved our speed and the quality of the program, including some content, elements and performance aspects.”
Programs
With Zhang
| Season | Short program | Free skating | Exhibition |
| 2025–2026 |
choreo. by Aljona Savchenko |
choreo. by Benoît Richaud |
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| 2024–2025 | by Ed Sheeran choreo. by Sui Wenjing |
choreo. by Sui Wenjing | by Jay Chou |
| 2023–2024 |
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choreo. by Sui Wenjing | |
| 2022–2023 | by Michael Jackson |
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With Wang
| Season | Short program | Free skating |
| 2021–2022 | by Adam Levine choreo. by Elvin Wong |
choreo. by Elvin Wong |
| 2021–2022 |
choreo. by Elvin Wong |
choreo. by Elvin Wong |
| 2019–2020 | by Bart Howard performed by Frank Sinatra choreo. by David Pelletier, Ekaterina Gordeeva |
choreo. by Guan Jinlin |
| 2018–2019 |
choreo. by Shae Zukiwsky |
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