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Date of birth: 16.03.1986 Daisuke TAKAHASHI
JPN
Place of birth: Kurashiki
Height: 165 cm
Home town: Osaka
Profession: graduate student
Hobbies: reading, shopping
Start sk. / Club: 1994 / Kansai University SC
Coach: Utako Nagamitsu, Takeshi Honda, Nikolai Morozov
Choreographer: Nikolai Morozov (SP), Shae-Lynn Bourne (FS)
Former Coach:
Practice low season: 30 h / week at Osaka, Moscow/RUS, Simsbury/USA
Practice high season: 30 h / week at Osaka, Moscow/RUS, Simsbury/USA
Music Short Program / Short Dance as of season 2012/2013
Moonlight Sonata by Ludwig van Beethoven
Music Free Skating / Free Dance as of season 2012/2013
Pagliacca from "I Pagliacci" by Ruggero Leoncavallo
Intermezzo from "I Pagliacci" by Ruggero Leoncavallo
Prelude from "I Pagliacci" by Ruggero Leoncavallo
Si Puo Signore Signori from "I Pagliacci" by Ruggero Leoncavallo
Personal Best Total Score276.7220.04.2012 ISU World Team Trophy 2012
Personal Best Score Short Program94.0019.04.2012 ISU World Team Trophy 2012
Personal Best Score Free Skating182.7220.04.2012 ISU World Team Trophy 2012
 
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Olympic Games
World Champ.
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Four Continents
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S=Senior; J=Junior; N=Novice
International CompetitionYearPlace
ISU GP Skate Canada International 2011 Mississauga, ON 2011 3.
ISU GP NHK Trophy 2011 Sapporo 2011 1.
ISU Grand Prix Final 2011/12 Quebec City, QC 2011 2.
ISU World Team Trophy 2012 Tokyo 2012 1.
International CompetitionYearPlace
ISU GP Cup of China 2012 Shanghai 2012 2.
ISU GP NHK Trophy 2012 Myiagi 2012 2.
ISU Grand Prix Final 2012/13 Sochi 2012 1.
ISU World Team Trophy 2013 Tokyo 2013 1.
Takahashi is the first Japanese male figure skater to medal at the Olympic Winter Games (bronze in 2010), to win the World Championships (in 2010) and the ISU Grand Prix Final (Dec 2012). He missed the entire 2008/09 season after tearing ligaments in his right knee in October 2008. He was back on the ice in April 2009 and started practising jumps in June 2009. Takahashi's idols in skating were Olympic Champions Alexei Yagudin, Evgeni Plushenko and Japan's Takeshi Honda. Takahashi moved to Osaka in 2004 to attend university. Meanwhile, the university has built a new ice rink where Takahashi and other elite skaters train. He has three older brothers, but they are not involved in sports. Coach Takeshi Honda is the 2002 and 2003 World bronze medalist.
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