Fumie Suguri

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Fumie Suguri

Suguri in 2003.
Personal Info
Country:	Japan
Date of birth:	December 31, 1980 (1980-12-31) (age 27)
Residence:	Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture
Height:	157 cm (5 ft 2 in)
Coach:	Alexander Zhulin, Igor Pashkevitch
Former Coach:	Nobuo Sato, Nobuko Fukui, Shinji Someya, Oleg Vasiliev
Choreographer:	Alexander Zhulin
Skating Club:	avex
ISU Personal Best Scores
Short + Free Total:	182.08	2004 GPF
Short Program:	62.12	2006 Worlds
Free Skate:	120.06	2004 GPF

Fumie Suguri (村主 章枝, Suguri Fumie^?, born December 31, 1980 in Chiba, Japan) is a Japanese figure skater. Suguri is a five-time Japanese National Champion, three-time World Championship medalist, and the 2004 Grand Prix Final Champion.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Trivia 3 Records 4 Competitive highlights summary 4.1 Post-2000 4.2 Pre-2000 5 Detailed breakdown of placements 6 Programs 7 External links 8 Navigation

[edit] Biography

Suguri began skating at the age of six in Alaska, where her father, an international pilot, was working. Her coach is Nobuo Sato, a ten-time Japanese national champion. She has been working with him since she was six years old. She was briefly coached by Oleg Vasiliev during the 2004-05 season, but he was fired by the Japanese federation after she struggled with her jumps and had poor results in her competitions. Her programs are choreographed by Lori Nichol. Her younger sister, Chika, is also a figure skater.

Suguri is considered to be one of the most successful skaters in Japanese history, along with Emi Watanabe, Midori Ito, Yuka Sato and Shizuka Arakawa. She won her first Japanese national title in 1997, and won it three more times between 2001-2003 and again in 2006. Suguri won the 2001 Four Continents Championships, which she would go on to win three more times throughout her career (2001, 2003, 2005). In 2002, she won her first World Championship medal, a bronze, behind Michelle Kwan and Irina Slutskaya one month after placing fifth at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. Her bronze medal at Worlds marked the first time a Japanese woman had been on the podium at the World Championships since Yuka Sato won the title in 1994.

She again won the bronze the following year at Worlds behind Elena Sokolova and Kwan. In 2004, she placed first at the NHK Trophy, 3rd at Cup of China and qualified for the 2004 Grand Prix Final. Suguri won the Final over favorite Sasha Cohen.

In 2006 she climbed a spot up on the World Championship podium after winning the silver behind American Kimmie Meissner. At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy she narrowly missed medaling, placing fourth.

In 2007, Suguri finished fourth at the Japanese championships behind younger competitors Yukari Nakano, Miki Ando and Mao Asada missing a spot to the World Championships in her home country. She competed at the Four Continents Championships, where she withdrew due to injury after falling on two jumps in her short program.

In 2008 at the Japanese National Championship, although Suguri placed third after her short program, she stumbled in the free program, finishing fourth overall, again missing a spot on the World Championship team.

[edit] Trivia

She was taught the triple Lutz jump by Michelle Kwan. The 1994 World Championship was held in Chiba, Japan, Fumie's hometown. Kwan, 13 at the time, was training at Fumie's practice rink preparing for the competition. Suguri asked Kwan to show her how to do a triple lutz, and Michelle performed the jump. As a result, the triple Lutz is her favorite jump. During the night of the long program at the 2002 Olympics, she let Sasha Cohen borrow her tights after Cohen forgot to bring hers to the competition.

Suguri is known for her soft jump landings and fast back scratch spins.

[edit] Records

• First Japanese woman to win the ISU Four Continents Championship
• Has more Four Continents titles than any other woman
• First Japanese woman to win the Grand Prix Final
• Has more world medals than any other Japanese figure skater
• Has more Asian Winter Games medals then any other female figure skater

[edit] Competitive highlights summary

[edit] Post-2000

Event/Season	2000-2001	2001-2002	2002-2003	2003-2004	2004-2005	2005-2006	2006-2007	2007-2008
Winter Olympics		5th				4th
World Championships	7th	3rd	3rd	7th	5th	2nd
Four Continents Championships	1st		1st		1st		WD	10th
Japanese Championships	1st	1st	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	4th	4th
Asian Winter Games			2nd				2nd
Grand Prix Final			6th	1st			4th
Cup of Russia								5th
Cup of China				3rd				4th
Skate Canada	3rd	4th	2nd		4th	8th	2nd
NHK Trophy	5th	7th	4th	1st		2nd	2nd
Trophee Eric Bompard					4th

[edit] Pre-2000

Event/Season	1992-1993	1993-1994	1994-1995	1995-1996	1996-1997	1997-1998	1998-1999	1999-2000
World Championships					18th		20th
World Junior Championships				4th	4th
Four Continents Championships							5th	4th
Japanese Championships				4th	1st	2nd	2nd	3rd
Japanese Junior Championships	10th	9th	10th	2nd	2nd
Asian Winter Games				3rd			3rd
Grand Prix Final							5th
Bofrost Cup on Ice								2nd
Cup of Russia					7th
Skate Canada							2nd
NHK Trophy					6th	5th	3rd	8th

[edit] Detailed breakdown of placements

[edit] Programs

Season	Short Program	Long Program	Exhibition
2007-08	Take Five by Dave Brubeck	Oblivion + Tango (Calambre) by Ástor Piazzolla	Cell Block Tango from Chicago by John Kander
			Clair de lune from Suite bergamasque by Claude Debussy
2006-07	Bolero by Maurice Ravel	Song of the Spirit + Lacus Pereverantiae + Fantasia (Original song) by Adiemus, Karl Jenkins	Carmen by George Bizet
			The Chronicles of Narnia
			The Girl from Ipanema by Antonio Carlos Jobim
2005-06	Cancion Triste by Jesse Cook	Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor by Sergei Rachmaninoff	Oblivion by Ástor Piazzolla
	Toca Orilla by Jesse Cook, Alejandra Nuñez		Séisouso from Quidam by Cirque du Soleil
2004-05	The Pink Panther (soundtrack) by Henry Mancini	Tango Para Percusion + Carmen Fantasie + Carmen by Lalo Schifrin / Franz Waxman / Georges Bizet	Adagio by Lara Fabian
			Séisouso from Quidam by Cirque du Soleil
2003-04	Sympathy for the Devil + Paint It, Black by The Rolling Stones, performed by Angèle Dubeau & La Pietà	Symphony No. 40 + Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	At the Shore by Susan Osborn
2002-03	Larghetto from Piano Concerto No. 2 by Frédéric Chopin	Excerpts from Swan Lake and Russian Dance from Swan Lake by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky	Sanctus (based on Pachelbel's Canon) by Libera
2001-02	Ellens Gesang III Ave Maria, song for voice & piano, D. 839 Op. 52/6 by Franz Schubert	Piano sonata No.14 in C sharp minor Moonlight Op.27/2 by Ludwig van Beethoven	Don't Cry for Me, Argentina from Evita by Madonna
2000-01	Rustle of Spring, Op. 32 No. 3 by Christian Sinding	Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity from The Planets by Gustav Holst	Ave Maria performed by Charlotte Church, Composed by Giulio Caccini
1999-00	Blue Londo A La Turk by Dave Brubeck	Flute concerto + The Fog is Lifting by Carl Nielsen	Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To) by Mariah Carey
			The Storm + Ave Maria performed by Vanessa-Mae / Charlotte Church, Composed by Giulio Caccini
1998-99	De profundis + Wanderer Fantasy by Franz Liszt	Here the deities approve by Henry Purcell	Frozen by Madonna
		Toccata and Fugue + Air + Cello Suites by Johann Sebastian Bach
1997-98	Excerpts from Restoration by James Newton Haward	The Seasons by Alexander Glazunov
1996-97	Warm Air + Toccata and Fugue performed by Vanessa-Mae	Violin concerto + Liebesleid + La Sylphide by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky / Fritz Kreisler / Herman Severin Løvenskiold
1995-96		West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein

[edit] External links

• Official site
• Fumie Suguri at the International Skating Union biography page
• Michael Collins Enterprises

[edit] Navigation

v • d • e Four Continents Champions in Figure Skating – Ladies' Singles 1999: Tatiana Malinina · 2000: Angela Nikodinov · 2001: Fumie Suguri · 2002: Jennifer Kirk · 2003: Fumie Suguri · 2004: Yukina Ota · 2005: Fumie Suguri · 2006: Katy Taylor · 2007: Kimmie Meissner · 2008: Mao Asada

v • d • e Grand Prix Final Champions in Figure Skating – Ladies' Singles 1995/1996: Michelle Kwan · 1996/1997: Tara Lipinski · 1997/1998: Tara Lipinski · 1998/1999: Tatiana Malinina · 1999/2000: Irina Slutskaya · 2000/2001: Irina Slutskaya · 2001/2002: Irina Slutskaya · 2002/2003: Sasha Cohen · 2003/2004: Fumie Suguri · 2004/2005: Irina Slutskaya · 2005/2006: Mao Asada · 2006/2007: Kim Yu-Na · 2007/2008: Kim Yu-Na ·