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Ashley WAGNER, USA

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Music Short Program / Short Dance as of season 2015/2016
Hip Hip Chin Chin performed by Club des Belugas

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Music Free Skating / Free Dance as of season 2015/2016
Diamonds (from “Moulin Rouge” soundtrack)
One Day I’ll Fly Away (from “Moulin Rouge” soundtrack)
The Show Must Go On (from “Moulin Rouge” soundtrack)

Coach: Rafael Arutunian, Nadia Kanaeva, John Nicks
Choreographer: Shae-Lynn Bourne

Personal Best Total Score 202.52
Personal Best Score Short Program 70.73
Personal Best Score Free Skating 131.79

Date of birth: 16.05.1991 (24 y.o.), Heidelberg ,GER

Wagner is a bronze medalist in the team event at the 2014 Olympic Winter Games. She grew up in a military family, was born in Germany and moved seven times in her childhood. She speaks German after studying it in school. Her father is a retired Army lieutenant colonel and her mother is a school teacher. Her brother Austin (two years younger) competed at the national level in figure skating. She switched coaches in spring 2011 and moved to California for training.

http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00008996.htm

Mao ASADA, JPN

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Music Short Program / Short Dance as of season 2015/2016
Bei mir bist du schoen

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Music Free Skating
Free Dance as of season 2015/2016
Madame Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini
Coach: Nobuo Sato, Kumiko Sato, Reiko Kobayashi
Choreographer:Lori Nichol

Personal Best Total Score 216.69
Personal Best Score Short Program 78.66
Personal Best Score Free Skating 142.71
Date of birth: 25.09.1990 (25 y.o.)

Asada has landed triple Axels in competition. Her sister Mai (two years older) is a figure skater as well and finished 6th at the 2006 Four Continents Championships. She is now skating in shows. Asada launched her own kimono brand in 2011. Asada sat out the 2014/15 season and performed in shows.
http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00006588.htm

Mao Asada 12years old　2002 Japan Figure Skating Championships FS

Yuzuru HANYU, JPN

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Music Short Program / Short Dance as of season 2015/2016
Ballade No. 1 op. 23 in G minor by Frederic Chopin

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Music Free Skating / Free Dance as of season 2015/2016
Seimei (Japanese movie soundtrack) by Shigeru Umebayashi

Coach: Brian Orser
Choreographer:Jeffrey Buttle, Shae-Lynn Bourne

Personal Best Total Score 293.25
Personal Best Score Short Program 106.33
Personal Best Score Free Skating 194.08

Date of birth: 07.12.1994 (21 y.o.)

Hanyu is the first Japanese male skater to win Olympic gold. Hanyu followed his older sister Saya into skating. He looks up to Johnny Weir in figure skating. Hanyu’s home and ice rink were damaged during the earthquake and tsunami catastrophe on March 11, 2011 and he trained in Yokohama before the ice rink re-opened four months later. Hanyu switched coaches in spring 2012 and has moved to Canada for training. Coach Brian Orser is the 1984 and 1988 Olympic silver medalist.
http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00010967.htm

Meagan DUHAMEL /Eric RADFORD, CAN

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Music Short Program / Short Dance as of season 2015/2016
Your Song by Elton John, performed by Ewan McGregor
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Music Free Skating / Free Dance as of season 2015/2016
Hometown Glory by Adele
Coach:Richard Gauthier, Bruno Marcotte, Sylvie Fullum
Choreographer: Julie Marcotte

Personal Best Total Score 221.53
Personal Best Score Short Program 77.01
Personal Best Score Free Skating 146.22

Date of birth:Meagan DUHAMEL , 08.12.1985 (30 y.o,),Lively, ON, CAN
Eric RADFORD, 27.01.1985 (30 y.o,) ,Balmertown, ON,CAN

Ksenia STOLBOVA /Fedor KLIMOV, RUS

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Music Short Program / Short Dance as of season 2015/2016
I Put a Spell on You performed by Annie Lennox

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Music Free Skating / Free Dance as of season 2015/2016
Man and Shadow (The Unknown Known soundtrack) by Danny Elfman

Coach:Nina Mozer, Vladislav Zhovnirski
Choreographer:Nikolai Morozov, Alla Kapranova

Personal Best Total Score 218.68
Personal Best Score Short Program 76.15
Personal Best Score Free Skating 143.47

Date of birth: Ksenia STOLBOVA 07.02.1992, St. Petersburg RUS
Fedor KLIMOV 07.09.1990, St. Petersburg RUS

Yuko KAVAGUTI /Alexander SMIRNOV, RUS

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Music Short Program / Short Dance as of season 2015/2016
I Finally Found Someone by Brian Adams, Barbara Streisand

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Music Free Skating / Free Dance as of season 2015/2016
Manfred Symphony by Petr I. Tchaikovski
Coach: Tamara Moskvina
Choreographer: Peter Chernyshev, Tatiana Druchinina

Personal Best Total Score 216.00
Personal Best Score Short Program 76.02
Personal Best Score Free Skating 143.55

Date of birth: Yuko KAVAGUTI  20.11.1981 (34 y.o.) , Aichi JPN
Alexander SMIRNOV 11.10.1984 (31 y.o.), Tver, RUS

Kavaguti and Smirnov teamed up in spring 2006. Kavaguti competed internationally in singles for Japan before switching to pair skating. With former partner Alexander Markuntsov, she became the first pair skater from Japan to medal at an ISU Championship (silver at 2001 Junior Worlds). After her partnership with Markuntsov dissolved in 2003, she skated with different partners and competed with Devin Patrick at the U.S. Championships. Kavaguti has been living and training in Russia since 2003 and received Russian citizenship in February 2009. Her name spelling was changed from Kawaguchi to Kavaguti. The couple has landed the quadruple throw Salchow in competition and became the first pair to perform a throw quadruple loop in competition (2015 Cup of China, but two-footed). Kavaguti graduated from St. Petersburg University in 2007 with a degree in International Relations. Smirnov got married to Ekaterina Garus in August 2010. Their son Fedor was born in October 2014. Kavaguti/Smirnov missed the 2013/14 season as he ruptured ligaments in his knee in October 2013 and had surgery. They had missed the 2012 European Championships as he recovered from appendix surgery.
http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00009880.htm

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Anna CAPPELLINI/ Luca LANOTTE, ITA

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Music Short Program / Short Dance as of season 2015/2016
Waltz: The Merry Widow by Franz Lehar
Polka: The Merry Widow by Franz Lehar

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Music Free Skating / Free Dance as of season 2015/2016
La Dolce Vita (soundtrack) by Nino Rota
Coach:Paola Mezzadri, Roberto Pelizzola, Marina Zueva

Choreographer: Liudmila Vlasova, Massimo Scali

Personal Best Total Score 177.50
Personal Best Score Short Dance 72.39
Personal Best Score Free Dance 106.91

Date of birth: Anna CAPPELLINI 19.02.1987 (28 y.o.),Como
Luca LANOTTE 30.07.1985 (30 y.o.), Milan

Cappellini/Lanotte teamed up in spring 2005. They are the second Ice Dance couple from Italy to win the World title (in 2014) after Barbara Fusar Poli/Maurizio Margaglio won in 2001. Cappellini got married to pair skater Ondrej Hotarek in summer 2015.
http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00008719.htm

Kaitlyn WEAVER/ Andrew POJE, CAN

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Music Short Program / Short Dance as of season 2015/2016
Waltz: The Blue Danube by Johann Strauss
Polka: Annenpolka by Johann Strauss
Waltz: The Blue Danube by Johann Strauss

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Music Free Skating / Free Dance as of season 2015/2016
On the Nature of Daylight by Max Richter
Run by Ludovico Einaudi

Coach: Pasquale Camerlengo, Anjelika Krylova
Choreographer: P. Camerlengo, S. Bourne, P. Tchernyshev

Personal Best Total Score 257.43
Personal Best Score Short Program 88.90
Personal Best Score Free Skating 176.65

Date of birth: Kaitlyn WEAVER 12.04.1989 (26 y.o.),Houston, USA
Andrew POJE 25.02.1987 (28 y.o.),Kitchener, ON

Weaver/Poje teamed up in Augst 2006. She moved from Texas, USA to skate with him and they found immediate success by taking the bronze medal at the Canadian National Championships (senior level) and the bronze medal at the 2007 World Junior Championships. The couple switched coaches in January 2008. Coach Shae-Lynn Bourne is the 2003 Ice Dance World Champion (with Victor Kraatz). Weaver obtained Canadian citizenship in 2009 and now holds dual citizenship. The couple missed the 2013 National Championships and 2013 Four Continents Championships as Weaver suffered an injury to her left ankle (broken fibula) in practice in December 2012.

http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00009841.htm

Shoma UNO, JPN

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Music Short Program / Short Dance as of season 2015/2016
Legends by Sacred Spirits

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Music Free Skating / Free Dance as of season 2015/2016
Turandot by Giacomo Puccini performed by Vanessa Mae
Nessun Dorma by Giacomo Puccini performed Paul Potts

Coach: Machiko Yamada, Mihoko Higuchi
Choreographer: Mihoko Higuchi

Personal Best Total Score 257.43
Personal Best Score Short Program 88.90
Personal Best Score Free Skating 176.65
Date of birth: 17.12.1997 (17)
Place of birth: Nagoya, JPN

Uno went to the ice rink for fun with his father when he was five years old and liked skating immediately. He looks up to 2010 World Champion Daisuke Takahashi.
http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00012455.htm

Javier FERNANDEZ, ESP

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Music Short Program / Short Dance as of season 2015/2016
Malaguena performed by Paco de Lucia and Placido Domingo

Music Free Skating / Free Dance as of season 2015/2016
Guys and Dolls performed by Frank Sinatra

Personal Best Total Score 275.93
Personal Best Score Short Program 96.42
Personal Best Score Free Skating 186.07

Coach: Brian Orser, Tracy Wilson, Daniel Peinado
Choreographer: David Wilson, Antonio Najarro
Date of birth: 15.04.1991 (24 y.o.)
Place of birth: Madrid, ESP
Fernandez is the first figure skater from Spain to win the world title (2015) and to take a medal at an ISU Championship (gold at 2013 Europeans). He is also the first Spanish skater to win a medal at the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating (silver at Skate Canada 2011) and to qualify for the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final, where he took bronze in Dec 2011. Fernandez is the first man to represent Spain in figure skating at the Olympic Winter Games since 1956 when Dario Villalba competed. He landed three quadruple jumps (two Salchows and one toeloop) at the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final in Dec 2012 and at the European Championships 2013. Fernandez switched coaches in spring 2011 and moved to Canada for training. Coach Brian Orser is the 1984 and 1988 Olympic silver medalist.
http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00007684.htm

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