Rena Inoue
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| Personal Info | ||
| Country: |  United States |
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| Date of birth: | October 17, 1976 | |
| Residence: | Santa Monica, California | |
| Height: | 149 cm (4 ft 11 in) | |
| Partner: | John Baldwin | |
| Former Partner: | Tomoaki Koyama (JPN) | |
| Coach: | Peter Oppegard | |
| Skating Club: | All Year FSC | |
| ISU Personal Best Scores | ||
| Short + Free Total: | 183.17 | 2006 Worlds |
| Short Program: | 61.73 | 2007 Four Continents |
| Free Skate: | 122.27 | 2006 Worlds |
Rena Inoue (井上 怜奈 Inoue Rena?, born October 17, 1976 in Nishinomiya, Hyōgo, Japan) is an American pair skater. With partner John Baldwin, she is the 2004 and 2006 U.S. National Champion. Inoue previously competed for Japan as both a single skater and pair skater. Inoue and Baldwin are the first skaters to perform a throw triple axel in competition.
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[edit] Career
Inoue originally competed as a single and pair skater for Japan. She competed for Japan as a pair skater with Tomoaki Koyama at the 1992 Olympics and as a single skater at the 1994 Olympics.
Inoue was diagnosed with lung cancer in 1998. However, it was detected early, and after six months of chemotherapy, she was cancer-free.
She teamed up with John Baldwin and began competing with him in 2000. She became a U.S. citizen in 2005.
At the 2006 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, Inoue and Baldwin became the first pair to successfully perform a throw triple Axel in competition, and then made Olympic history by landing it again at the 2006 Winter Games.
Inoue and Baldwin earned the gold medal at the 2006 Skate America event after winning the short program and placing second in the free skate. They won the silver medal at Skate Canada the next week; and finally took the silver at Trophee Eric Bompard one week later. They officially qualified for the Grand Prix Final at the conclusion of the pair's event at the NHK Trophy competition, the last competition in the Grand prix. They lost their national title and then placed 8th at the 2007 World Championships.
Taking their bows after their Free Skate at the 2008 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, Baldwin proposed marriage to Rena on the ice and she accepted.[1][2]
[edit] Competitive highlights
[edit] Ladies' singles
- Japanese Junior Nationals - 2nd
- Japanese Junior Nationals - 1st
- Olympics - 18th
- World Championships - 13th
- Japanese Junior Nationals - 2nd
- Japanese Senior Nationals - 2nd
- World Junior Championships - 5th
- Japanese Senior Nationals - 3rd
[edit] Pair skating
(with John Baldwin for the United States)
| Event | 2000-2001 | 2001-2002 | 2002-2003 | 2003-2004 | 2004-2005 | 2005-2006 | 2006-2007 | 2007-2008 |
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| Olympic Games | 7th | |||||||
| World Championships | 10th | 10th | 11th | 4th | 8th | 10th | ||
| Four Continents | 7th | 4th | 1st | 3rd | 4th | |||
| U.S. Championships | 11th | 4th | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 1st | 2nd | 2nd |
| Grand Prix Final | 6th | 4th | ||||||
| Skate America | 3rd | 2nd | 1st | |||||
| Skate Canada | 2nd | |||||||
| Bofrost Cup | 5th | |||||||
| Cup of China | 5th | |||||||
| Trophee Eric Bompard | 4th | 2nd | ||||||
| Cup of Russia | 5th | |||||||
| NHK Trophy | 4th | 4th |
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Official site
- Rena Inoue at the United States Figure Skating Association
- Rena Inoue at the International Skating Union biography page
- U.S. Olympic Team bio
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