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Yuna Kim lauds new, 11-year-old South Korea figure skating champion

An 11-year-old broke Yuna Kim‘s record as South Korea’s youngest-ever national figure skating champion over the weekend.

You Young, who is 4 feet, 7 inches, according to Agence France-Presse, landed seven triple jumps in her free skate at the South Korean Championships on Sunday.

Watch her short program here and her free skate here.

Kim won her first national title at age 12 in 2003, seven years before she took Olympic gold in Vancouver in a performance that inspired Young, according to AFP.

“She is even better than I was,” the retired Kim, who was in attendance at the South Korean Championships, said of Young, according to AFP.