Annaveia (Anna) Tzu-Han Ting or Ting Tzu-Han (; born February 21, 2006) is a Taiwanese figure skater. She is the 2022 Nordic silver medalist, the 2023 Asian Open Trophy silver medalist, the 2022 Asian Open Trophy bronze medalist, and a three-time Taiwanese national champion (2022–24).
She has represented Taiwan at the World Junior Championships, Four Continents Championships, and World Championships.
Personal life Ting was born on February 21, 2006, in Taipei, Taiwan. Her career expenses is fully funded by her parents, but supplemented by federation funding, local sponsorships, and donations. Ting attends public school and had the fourth-best grades in her class in 2019. She enjoys fashion design, piano, cooking, and skiing. Ting admires Japan's Yuzuru Hanyu as her future goal and especially likes his "Hope and Legacy" free skating program.
In fall 2024, she moved to Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom, where she began attending university in food science.
Career Early career Ting initially started out learning inline skating before a coach believed that she had potential and encouraged her to try figure skating. She began skating at age 6.5 years after she did not fall like other beginners during her first lessons. Ting won the 2016 Taiwanese Championships in the intermediate division, the 2017 and 2018 Taiwanese Championships in the advanced novice division, and the 2019 Taiwanese Championships in the junior division.
On the international level, Ting is the 2016 Asian Open Trophy basic novice A bronze medalist, the 2017–18 Southeast Asian Figure Skating Open Challenge advanced novice champion, the 2018 Rooster Cup advanced novice champion, and the 2019 Oceania International Novice champion. At the 2017 edition of the Asian Open Trophy, she was the youngest competitor in the advanced novice division, at only 11 years old.
2019–2020 season Ting began working in Canada at the Toronto Cricket, Skating and Curling Club with Joey Russell, in addition to training with her current coach Chen Kuo-Wen in Taipei. She won the 2020 Taiwanese junior title in early August by nearly 40 points over Mandy Chiang and Marissa Yi-Shan Wu. Ting then won the 2019 Tokyo Summer Figure Skating Competition.
Ting made her junior international debut on the 2019–20 ISU Junior Grand Prix, originally being assigned to 2019 JGP Poland and 2019 JGP Italy. She placed 11th in Poland and later withdrew from Italy. In February, Ting placed fifth in Junior Ladies I at the 2020 Bavarian Open. She qualified to the free skating segment at the 2020 World Junior Championships in Tallinn, ultimately finishing 17th overall.
2020–2021 season Ting won her third consecutive junior national title at the 2021 Taiwanese Championships in August. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020–21 ISU Junior Grand Prix, where she would have competed, was canceled. Ting won the 2021 Chinese Taipei Figure Skating Elites Cup in the senior division.
2021–2022 season Ting was assigned to compete at the 2021 CS Nebelhorn Trophy to attempt to qualify a berth for Taiwan at the 2022 Winter Olympics. She placed tenth at the event with new personal bests in both the free skate and total score, resulting in Taiwan being the third reserve for the Olympics. She finished the fall season with a fourth place at the 2021 Asian Open and gold at the Taiwanese championships. Assigned to the 2022 Four Continents Championships in Tallinn, she finished fifteenth. Ting concluded the season by making her World Championship debut, coming in twenty-sixth position.
2022–2023 season In her season debut, Ting placed eighth at the 2022 CS Lombardia Trophy, before coming fourth at the 2022 CS Nebelhorn Trophy. She went on to win a bronze medal at the 2022 Asian Open Trophy, and win a second consecutive Taiwanese national title. She finished thirteenth at the 2023 Four Continents Championships.
2023–2024 season
Ting began the season by winning the silver medal at the 2023 Asian Open Trophy, behind An Xiangyi of China. She then finished tenth at the 2023 CS Finlandia Trophy.
After winning another Taiwanese national title, Ting came tenth at the 2024 Four Continents Championships. In her second appearance at the World Championships, she finished twenty-second.
2024–2025 season Ting started the season by finishing sixteenth at the 2024 CS Lombardia Trophy.
On October 23, 2024, Ting would take to her Instagram, announcing that she would be taking an indefinite break from figure skating after suffering from numerous illnesses and immunity issues during the summer off-season. She also stated that she wanted to take this time to focus on her university education.
Programs Season Short program Free skating Exhibition 2024–2025 Crimson Peak Notre-Dame de Paris 2023–2024 Sherlock La Llorona 2022–2023 Capone The Phantom of the Opera I Am Criminal 2020–2022 Twilight Aladdin 2019–2020 Corpse Bride Finding Neverland 2018–2019 Harry Potter The Cat Returns
Competitive highlights CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix
International Event 18–19 19–20 20–21 21–22 22–23 23–24 24-25 Worlds 26th 22nd Four Continents 15th 13th 10th Finlandia 10th Lombardia 8th 16th Nebelhorn 10th 4th Asian Open 4th 3rd 2nd Bosphorus Cup 1st Nordics 2nd Sofia Trophy 5th International: Junior Junior Worlds 17th Poland 11th Bavarian Open 5th1 National Chinese Taipei Championships1st J 1st J 1st J 1st 1st 1st
Detailed results
Senior level 2024–2025 season Date Event SP FS Total September 13–15, 2024 2024 CS Lombardia Trophy 17 44.04 18 79.10 16 123.14 2023–2024 season Date Event SP FS Total March 18–24, 2024 2024 World Championships 22 56.32 22 101.51 22 157.83 Jan. 30 – Feb. 4, 2024 2024 Four Continents Championships 10 59.17 10 112.70 10 171.87 Nov. 27 – Dec. 3, 2023 Bosphorus Cup 1 63.72 3 101.01 1 165.53 October 4–8, 2023 2023 CS Finlandia Trophy 12 52.16 9 100.09 10 152.25 August 16–19, 2023 2023 Asian Open Trophy 2 54.85 4 91.42 2 146.27 2022–2023 season Date Event SP FS Total February 7–12, 2023 2023 Four Continents Championships 17 45.19 13 95.32 13 140.51 December 7–10, 2022 2022 Asian Open Trophy 2 48.48 3 87.92 3 136.40 September 21–24, 2022 2022 CS Nebelhorn Trophy 11 49.92 4 112.50 4 162.42 September 16–18, 2022 2022 CS Lombardia Trophy 9 53.22 8 103.13 8 156.35 2021–2022 season Date Event SP FS Total March 21–27, 2022 2022 World Championships 26 55.24 - 26 55.24 January 18–23, 2022 2022 Four Continents Championships 17 49.15 14 96.42 15 145.57 October 13–17, 2021 2021 Asian Open Trophy 8 51.84 3 103.19 4 155.03 September 22–25, 2021 2021 CS Nebelhorn Trophy 13 51.33 8 105.88 10 157.21
Junior level 2020–2021 season Date Event SP FS Total August 2–3, 2020 2020–21 Taiwanese Championships 1 45.97 1 96.57 1 142.54 2019–2020 season Date Event SP FS Total March 2–8, 2020 2020 World Junior Championships 22 50.97 14 98.07 17 149.04 February 3–9, 2020 2020 Bavarian Open 4 53.62 5 96.53 5 150.15 September 18–21, 2019 2019 JGP Poland 10 56.27 13 90.08 11 146.35 August 2–3, 2019 2019–20 Taiwanese Championships 1 48.22 1 96.36 1 144.58
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