Yukari Nakano

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Yukari Nakano

Nakano in 2007.
Personal Info
Country:	Japan
Date of birth:	August 25, 1985 (1985-08-25) (age 22)
Height:	154 cm
Coach:	Nobuo Sato
Former Coach:	Machiko Yamada, Mihoko Higuchi, Naoko Ozuka
Choreographer:	Marina Zueva
Skating Club:	Waseda University
ISU Personal Best Scores
Short + Free Total:	177.40	2008 Worlds
Short Program:	61.10	2008 Worlds
Free Skate:	116.30	2008 Worlds

Most Recent Results:
Event	Points	Finish	Year
World Championships	177.40	4th	2008
Grand Prix Final	172.96	5th	2007

Yukari Nakano (Japanese: 中野友加里) (born August 25, 1985 in Konan, Aichi, Japan) is a Japanese figure skater. She is the 2006 Four Continents silver medalist.

Contents 1 Personal life 2 Career 3 Record 4 Programs 5 Competitive highlights 5.1 Post-2002 5.2 Pre-2002 6 References 7 External links 8 Navigation

[edit] Personal life

Nakano was born on August 25, 1985 in Konan City.

In 2004, Nakano entered Waseda University in Tokyo. She will be a graduate student there in the 2008 academic year.

[edit] Career

She started to skate in 1991 at the Gland Prix Tokai Figure Skating Club, where Machiko Yamada coached. Nakano met Midori Ito there, who influenced her to take her skating seriously.

Nakano showed promise on the junior scene, winning two Junior Grand Prix events and earning the silver medal at the 2002 World Junior Figure Skating Championships. She made history at the 2002 Skate America, where she became the third female skater to land a triple axel jump, and the first to do it in ten years^[1][2][3]. She landed also a triple axel-double toe loop combination at the 2002 Japanese Nationals, the West Japan Championships 2002, and the Kanto Gakusei Freeskating Championships 2004.

After two disappointing seasons (2003-2005), Nakano made a strong comeback in the 2005-2006 season. She won the NHK Trophy and the bronze medal at the Grand Prix Final. She landed triple axels in five consecutive competitions in 2005 (Yamanashi Kokutai 2005^[4], Kanto Gakusei Freeskating Championships^[5], Tokyo Figure Skating Championships^[6], Skate Canada International, and Asian Figure Skating Championships^[7] ). At the Skate Canada, she became the first woman to land a triple axel under the ISU Judging System in ISU Senior level competition ^[8].She placed 5th at the 2005-2006 Nationals, missing a berth on the Olympic team.

At the 2006-2007 Japanese Nationals, she placed third behind Mao Asada and Miki Ando, earning one of three spots to represent Japan at the 2007 World Figure Skating Championships, where she finished 5th.

In her regional competition at the beginning of the 2007-2008 season, Nakano landed her first clean triple axel in two years. She consistently attempted the triple axel that season, being credited with it at the 2007 Skate Canada International^[9], 2007 Cup of Russia^[10], and the 2007-2008 Grand Prix Final^[11].

Nakano's signature move is the donut spin. She is also known for her leg wrap when she jumps.

[edit] Record

• First and only woman to perform all 6 kinds of triple jumps under the ISU Judging System in competition(2005 Tokyo Figure Skating Championships).^[12]

[edit] Programs

Season	Short Program	Long Program	Exhibition
2007–08	Fantaisie-Impromptu by Frédéric Chopin, performed by Yundi Li	Capriccio espagnol by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov	Aria (Le Cygne from Le carnaval des animaux) by Saint-Saens, performed by Giorgia Fumanti Corteo Ritornare from Cirque du Soleil
2006–07	Memoirs of a Geisha by John Williams	Cinderella by Sergei Prokofiev	Claudine by Tonci Huljic, performed by Maksim
2005–06	Bolero from Moulin Rouge! by Steve Sharples, performed by Craig Armstrong	Don Quixote by Leon Minkus	Amazing Grace by Hayley Westenra
2004–05	Bacchanalia from Faust by Charles Gounod	Beatles Medley by Peter Nero	Cell Block Tango from Chicago by John Kander
2003–04	Prayer for Taylor from Freedom by Michael W. Smith	Etude No. 12 in C minor "Revolutionary" Op. 10-12 by Frederic Chopin	Nocturne from "Songs from a Secret Garden" by Rolf Lovland
2002–03	Prayer for Taylor from Freedom by Michael W. Smith	Oui, pour ce soir... je suis Titania, Mignon by Ambroise Thomas
2001–02	Perhaps Love by John Denver, performed by James Galway	Carnival Overture Op. 92 by Antonin Dvorak	Happy Valley by Vanessa-Mae
2000–01	Perhaps Love by John Denver, performed by James Galway	Times Square	Happy Valley by Vanessa-Mae

[edit] Competitive highlights

[edit] Post-2002

Event/Season	2002-2003	2003-2004	2004-2005	2005-2006	2006-2007	2007-2008
World Championships				5th	5th	4th
Four Continents Championships	3rd	6th	11th	2nd
Japanese Championships	6th	7th	6th	5th	3rd	3rd
Asian Winter Games	3rd				1st
Asian Championships			1st	1st
Grand Prix Final				3rd		5th
Skate Canada			11th	3rd		2nd
Cup of Russia		8th				2nd
NHK Trophy				1st	3rd
Cup of China			11th		2nd
Skate America	7th	8th
Trophee Lalique	6th

[edit] Pre-2002

Event/Season	1997-1998	1998-1999	1999-2000	2000-2001	2001-2002
World Junior Championships			7th	4th	2nd
Japanese Championships			8th		5th
Japanese Junior Championships		11th		1st	2nd
Japanese Novice Championships	9th	1st
Junior Grand Prix Final			5th	3rd	5th
Junior Grand Prix, Japan			2nd		2nd
Junior Grand Prix, Bulgaria					3rd
Junior Grand Prix, China				1st
Junior Grand Prix, Mexico				1st
Junior Grand Prix, Canada			4th
Triglav Trophy		1st N.

• N = Novice level

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official site (Japanese) (English)
• Yukari Nakano at the International Skating Union biography page

[edit] Navigation

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