Jian Tong - Host City speaker

Jian Tong

Position: Pair skating World Champion, Founder and President of YiXiang Ice Sports

Tong Jian is a Chineseskater born on August 15,1979 in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province. With partner and wife Pang Qing, he is the 2010 Olympic silver medalist, 2006 & 2010 World Champion, a five-time Four Continents champion (2002, 2004, 2008, 2009 & 2011) and the 2008 Grand Prix Final Champion. 

After more than 30 years of figure skating, he became an entrepreneur, created YiXiang Ice Sports and served as the deputy secretary-general of the China Skating Association. He gave back to society through non-profit public ice-skating lessons, training for figure skating and commercial ice opera performance with professionalism, enthusiasm and a strong sense of social responsibility. Now he is trying to make ice sports more accessible to the public.