Yoshie Onda

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Yoshie Onda
Personal Info
Country: Flag of Japan Japan
Date of birth: December 13, 1982 (1982-12-13) (age 25)
Residence: Toronto, Canada
Height: 157 cm
Coach: Josée Chouinard
Skating Club: Tokai Gakuen University SC
Retired: 2007
ISU Personal Best Scores
Short + Free Total: 166.80 2005 Four CC
Short Program: 58.02 2005 Four CC
Free Skate: 108.78 2005 Four CC

Yoshie Onda (恩田美栄, Onda Yoshie; born December 13, 1982 in Nagoya, Japan) is a Japanese figure skater. She is the 2005 Four Continents silver medalist and 2001-2002 bronze medalist.

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[edit] Biography

Onda started skating when she turned nine.

Onda became the first Japanese female figure skater to win a Grand Prix series title at the Bofrost Cup on Ice in Germany in 2002 and won the NHK Trophy the same season. She has notably attempted to land a triple axel many times during her career, but has yet to land one cleanly in competition.

In early 2007, Onda announced that she is retiring from competitive figure skating as of the end of the 2006-2007 season. She had hoped to end her career by skating in the 2007 World Figure Skating Championships one last time, but failed to qualify for it in the Japanese Nationals. Her future plans include skating in professional ice shows, and possibly exploring a career in sports medicine.[1]

Her coach is Josée Chouinard. Previous coaches were Audrey Weisinger and Machiko Yamada.

[edit] Competitive highlights

Event/Season 1997-98 1998-99 1999-00 2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07
Winter Olympics 17th
World Championships 12th 5th 11th 11th
Four Continents Championships 5th 3rd 3rd 8th 2nd 6th
World Junior Championships WD 17th
Japanese Championships 4th 3rd 2nd 4th 7th 4th 5th
Japanese Junior Championships 2nd 2nd 4th
Grand Prix Final 5th WD 5th 5th
Skate America 3rd
Skate Canada Int. 2nd 7th
Bofrost Cup on Ice 2nd 1st
Cup of China 2nd
Trophee Lalique 2nd
Cup of Russia 7th 3rd 3rd
NHK Trophy 8th 2nd 1st 3rd 4th
Winter Universiade 1st
  • WD = Withdrew

[edit] References

  1. ^ “Onda reveals retirement plans”, The Japan Times (The Japan Times Online), 2007-04-01, <http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/sp20070401a7.html> 

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