Satoko MIYAHARA, JPN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBmbAJ3aYh0

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRcuro1uikI

 

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4KfmceobHQ

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuR8eAUlMYY

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

 

Mao ASADA, JPN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DaiGwytRjY

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BVOjmsacvk

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU_tYn7Y52U

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

Shoma UNO, JPN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PIthKkQAfY

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnnsQL2IWUE

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

Sota YAMAMOTO, JPN

Date of birth: 10.01.2000


2015 ISU Jr. Grand Prix- Colorado Springs Men Short Program Sota YAMAMOTO
Music Short Program / Short Dance as of season 2015/2016
Poeta by Vincente Amigo

2015 ISU Jr. Grand Prix – Colorado Springs Men Free Skate Sota Yamamoto JPN
Music Free Skating / Free Dance as of season 2015/2016
Piano Concerto No. 1 by Petr I. Tchaikovski

Coach: Hiroshi Nagakubo, Yoriko Naruse, Miho Kawaume
Choreographer: Kenji Miyamoto
2015 ISU Jr. Grand Prix – Colorado Springs Men

Pl. Name Points SP FS
3 Sota YAMAMOTO JPN 203.68 2 3

Date of birth: 10.01.2000

 

Rin NITAYA, JPN

2015 ISU Junior Grand Prix Bratislava Ladies Short Program Rin NITAYA JPN
Music Short Program / Short Dance as of season 2015/2016
Primavera by Ludovico Einaudi


2015 ISU Junior Grand Prix Bratislava Ladies Free Skate Rin NITAYA JPN
Music Free Skating / Free Dance as of season 2015/2016
Ice Queen by Paul Dinletir
Coach:Sergei Davydov, Vladimir Kotin
Choreographer:Viktoria Bondarenko, Sergei Verbilo

Place Name Nation Points SP FS
4 Rin NITAYA JPN 150.4 6 4

Date of birth: 08.08.1997 (18 y.o.)

Marin HONDA, JPN

2015 ISU Jr. Grand Prix- Colorado Springs Ladies Short Program Marin HONDA JPN
Music Short Program / Short Dance as of season 2015/2016
Spring Sonata No. 5

2015 ISU Jr. Grand Prix- Colorado Springs Ladies Free Skate Marin HONDA JPN
Music Free Skating / Free Dance as of season 2015/2016
Beetlejuice (soundtrack)

Coach: Mie Hamada, Yamato Tamura
Choreographer: Marina Zueva, Tom Dickson

FPl. Name Points SP FS
2 Marin HONDA JPN 156.44 1 4

Date of birth: 21.08.2001 (14y.o.)

Kaori SAKAMOTO, JPN

ISU 2015 Jr. Grand Prix – Riga Ladies Short Program Kaori SAKAMOTO JPN
Music Short Program / Short Dance as of season 2015/2016
Malaguena by Ernesto Lecuona

Music Free Skating / Free Dance as of season 2015/2016
The Color Purple: Main Theme by Quincy Jones

Pl Name Nation Points SP FS
2 Kaori SAKAMOTO JPN 170.95 3 2

Date of birth: 09.04.2000 (15 y.o.)

Yuna SHIRAIWA, JPN

2015 ISU Jr. Grand Prix- Colorado Springs Ladies Free Skate Yuna SHIRAIWA JPN
Music Free Skating / Free Dance as of season 2015/2016
Night Waltz
Send In the Clowns by Stephen Sondheim

Music Short Program / Short Dance as of season 2015/2016
Over the Rainbow
Coach: Mie Hamada, Yamato Tamura, Haruko Okamoto
Choreographer: Tom Dickson, Cathy Reed

1 Yuna SHIRAIWA JPN 164.5 SP-5 FS-1

Date of birth: 26.11.2001 (13 y.o)