| Dai Daiwei | |
| Native Name: | 戴大卫 |
| Native Name Lang: | zh |
| Country: |  China |
| Birth Date: | 19 July 2003 |
| Birth Place: | St Petersburg, Russia |
| Hometown: | Shenzhen, China |
| Coach: | Jia Shuguang Dai Qingling |
| Formercoach: | Constanze Paulinus, Shih Hao Henry Lu, Pang Qing, Tong Jian |
| Skating Club: | Kunlun Red Star Shenzhen China |
| Beganskating: | 2010 |
Dai Daiwei (; born 19 July 2003) is a Chinese figure skater. He is a three-time Chinese national medalist and the 2023 Asian Open Trophy champion.
Dai was born on July 19, 2003 in Saint Petersburg, Russia to Chinese father and Russian mom. They would eventually return to China when Dai was two years old, settling in Shenzhen. In addition to figure skating, Dai also enjoys swimming.
He looks up to fellow Chinese male figure skaters, Yan Han and Jin Boyang.[1]
Dai began skating in 2010 at the age of six and a half years old. In his early years of skating, his coaches included Denis Petrov and Shih Hao Henry Lu. Dai would eventually move to Beijing to train under two-time World Champion pair skaters, Pang Qing and Tong Jian shortly after they opened the Pangqing Tongjian Academy in 2018.
He debuted as a junior skater at the 2020 Chinese Junior Championships, where he won the bronze medal. During the 2020–21 season, however, all Chinese national competitions were canceled as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. This meant that Dai was unable to partake in major competitions that season.[2]
Finally able to return to competition for the 2022–23 season, Dai made his senior national debut at the 2022 Chinese Championships, where he won the bronze medal.
In March 2023, Dai moved to Harbin to train at the Heilongjiang Winter Sports Training Center, where Jia Shuguang became his new coach.
Making his international debut at the 2023 Asian Open Trophy, Dai won the gold medal. He went on to compete at the 2023 Shanghai Trophy, where he finished sixth. Going on to debut on the 2023–24 Grand Prix circuit, Dai finished eleventh at the 2023 Cup of China.
At the 2023 Chinese Championships, Dai won the silver medal behind Chen Yudong. Selected to compete at the 2024 Four Continents in Shanghai, Dai finished twentieth.
He closed the season by winning silver at the 2024 National Winter Games.
Dai began the season by taking silver at the 2024 Asian Open Trophy. He then went on to compete at the 2024 Shanghai Trophy where he finished fifth. In late November, Dai competed at the 2024 Cup of China, where he placed seventh in both the short program and free skate, finishing in sixth-place overall, the highest rank of the three Chinese men competing at the event. While there, Dai would score personal bests in all three competition segments, including a short program over sixteen points higher than his previous best, a free skate over thirty-three points higher than his previous best, and a combined total score over fifty points higher than his previous best.[3] One week later, he competed at the 2024 Chinese Championships, where he won the silver medal.
| Season | Short program | Free skating | Exhibition | |
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| 2024–2025 |
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| 2023–2024 |
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| International [4] | ||||||||
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| Event | 19–20 | 22–23 | 23–24 | 24–25 | ||||
| align=left | 20th | |||||||
| align=left | 11th | 6th | ||||||
| align=left | 6th | 5th | ||||||
| align=left | bgcolor=gold | 1st | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | ||||
| National [5] | ||||||||
| align=left | bgcolor=cc9966 | 3rd J | 3rd | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | |
| align=left | bgcolor=silver | 2nd |
| 2023–24 season | ||||||||
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| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total | ||||
| 24–26 February 2024 | 2024 National Winter Games | align=center | 2 75.75 | align=center | 2 159.48 | align=center bgcolor=silver | 2 235.23 | |
| 30 January–4 February 2024 | 2024 Four Continents Championships | align=center | 16 66.04 | align=center | 22 102.47 | align=center | 20 168.51 | |
| 22–24 December 2023 | 2023 Chinese Championships | align=center | 2 74.73 | align=center | 2 138.11 | align=center bgcolor=silver | 2 212.84 | |
| 10–11 November 2023 | 2023 Cup of China | align=center | 11 64.25 | align=center | 11 121.31 | align=center | 11 185.56 | |
| 3–5 October 2023 | 2023 Shanghai Trophy | align=center | 6 49.32 | align=center | 6 105.95 | align=center | 6 155.27 | |
| 16–18 August 2023 | 2023 Asian Open Trophy | align=center | 1 72.02 | align=center | 3 123.12 | align=center bgcolor=gold | 1 195.14 | |