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Satoko MIYAHARA, JPN

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Music Short Program / Short Dance as of season 2015/2016
Firedance from “Riverdance” by Bill Whelan

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Music Free Skating / Free Dance as of season 2015/2016
Un Sospiro by Franz Liszt

Coach: Mie Hamada, Yamato Tamura, Yoko Niino
Choreographer: Tom Dickson, Lori Nichol

Personal Best Total Score 193.60

Personal Best Score Short Program 67.02
Personal Best Score Free Skating 129.12

Date of birth: 26.03.1998, Kyoto
http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00012461.htm

Daisuke MURAKAMI, JPN

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Music Short Program / Short Dance as of season 2015/2016
Bring Him Home perfomed by Josh Groban

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Music Free Skating / Free Dance as of season 2015/2016
Anniversary by Yoshiki

Coach: Frank Carroll
Choreographer:Lori Nichol

Personal Best Total Score 256.47
Personal Best Score Short Program 82.86
Personal Best Score Free Skating 173.61

Date of birth: 15.01.1991

Murakami moved with his family to the USA as a nine-year-old and competed for the USA until the 2007/08 season before switching to Japan. He started skating as a 10-year-old in public sessions where he was discovered by his first coach Tammy Gambill.

http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00007654.htm

 

Patrick CHAN, CAN

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Music Short Program / Short Dance as of season 2015/2016
Mack the Knife performed by Michael Buble

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmLTc7f5AG4

Music Free Skating / Free Dance as of season 2015/2016
Selection of music by Frederic Chopin

Coach: Kathy Johnson
Choreographer: David Wilson

Personal Best Total Score 295.27
Personal Best Score Short Program 98.52
Personal Best Score Free Skating 196.75

Date of birth: 31.12.1990, Ottawa, ON

Chan won the silver medal with the team in the team event at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games. He took figure skating lessons because he wanted to learn how to skate in order to play hockey, but then liked figure skating right away. He practiced many other sports including tennis, skiing, swimming and taekwondo. Osborne Colson coached Chan for many years up until his death in July 2006 at age 90. Chan admires four-time World Champion Kurt Browning for his personality and admires World Champion Todd Eldredge for his work ethics. Chan’s parents are immigrants from China. His mother immigrated from Hong Kong to Canada in her late 20s, his father came as a young boy to Canada. Chan’s father played ping pong and coached a ping pong team in Quebec. Chan returns to competition after taking a break in the 2014/15 season.
http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00007980.htm

Boyang JIN, CHN

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Music Short Program / Short Dance as of season 2015/2016
Tango Amore by Edvin Marton

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oMLExcGIPQ

Music Free Skating / Free Dance as of season 2015/2016
Dragon Racing by John Powell

Coach: Zhaoxiao Xu, Caishu Fu
Choreographer: Justin Dillon

Personal Best Total Score 261.23
Personal Best Score Short Program 90.05
Personal Best Score Free Skating 171.18

Date of birth: 03.10.1997, Harbin
Jin started skating at age 7 after watching a figure skating competition. He looks up to Olympic Champions Alexei Yagudin and Evgeni Plushenko. Jin is the first skater to perform a quadruple Lutz-triple toeloop combination in ISU competition (Grand Prix Cup of China 2015). He plans four quadruple jumps in his Free Skating.

http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00013802.htm

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmNvrXopug4


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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H53-mfM0ea4

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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