Two men accused of killing Kazakhstan's figure skater who won bronze at the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014, Denis Ten, were sentenced on Thursday to 18 years in prison.

Kazakhstan's Denis Ten performs during the men's short program during event of the Internationaux de France ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating in Grenoble, central-eastern France on November 17, 2017. (File photos: VCG)

A local court found Arman Kudaibergenov and Nurali Kiyasov guilty of killing Ten, 25, while attempting to steal mirrors from his car last July, according to an AFP journalist in the courtroom.