page_title: Choi Da-bin
section_title: 2017-2018 season: 2018 Winter Olympics
hierarchical_section_title: Choi Da-bin / Career / 2017-2018 season: 2018 Winter Olympics
caption_attribution_description: English: CHOI Dabin KOR – 7th Place
context_page_description: Choi Da-bin is a South Korean figure skater. She is the 2017 Asian Winter Games champion and a 5-time South Korean national medalist. She has placed in the top-ten at the 2018 Winter Olympics, the 2017 World Championships, the Four Continents Championships. Earlier in her career, she won two bronze medals during the 2015–16 ISU Junior Grand Prix series in Austria and Latvia. She has placed in the top-ten at the World Junior Championships.
context_section_description: Choi began the season competing at the 2017 CS Ondrej Nepela Trophy, placing fourth.  At the first of her two assignments on the 2017-18 Grand Prix circuit, the 2017 Cup of China, she placed a disappointing ninth, hampered by a foot injury.  She subsequently withdrew from her second Grand Prix event at the 2017 Skate America as a result of the injury.
  Choi and Kim Ha-nul were selected to compete at both the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, and the 2018 World Figure Skating Championships in Milan, Italy. They were joined by Park So-youn for the 2018 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships in Taipei City, Chinese Taipei.
  At the Four Continents Championships, Choi just missed the podium, coming in fourth just behind Japan's Satoko Miyahara.  Choi reverted to her Doctor Zhivago free skate program for this and all subsequent competitions for the season, citing the difficulty in performing its replacement to the standard she desired.
  Choi received a standing ovation for her short program at the Olympics, including from South Korea's Yuna Kim.  She set personal bests in both the short program and free skate, and finished seventh overall.  Her short program for the season, set to "Papa, Can You Hear Me?" was dedicated to her mother, who had died shortly before the South Korean qualifying event.  Choi commented following her performance in the team event: "I am very thankful to my mother, who is watching me from Heaven."
  After skating the short program at the 2018 World Championships, Choi was compelled to withdraw due to equipment failure.
caption: Choi at the 2018 Winter Olympics.
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