Yukari NAKANO

Japan

Single

Date of birth / Születési idő

 25 August 1985

Place of birth / Születés helye

 Aichi

Height / Magasság

 154 cm

Home town  /Lakóhely

 Tokyo

Profession / Foglalkozás

 Student

Hobbies / Hobbi

 cooking, shopping, playing the piano, jazz dance

Start skating / Korcsolyázás kezdete

 1991

Club

 Waseda University FSC

 

Coach / Edző

 Nobuo Sato

Choreographer / Koreográfus

 Marina Zueva

Former coach / Régebbi edző

 Machiko Yamada, Mihoko Higuchi

Practice low season / Gyakorlás holtszezonban (h/week)

 at Yokohama

Practice high season / Gyakorlás főszezonban  (h/week)

 at Yokohama

 

Music Short Program as of 2006/2007 season

 Memories of a Geisha (soundtrack) by John Williams

Music Free Skating as of 2006/2007 season

 Cinderella by Sergei Prokofiev

Music Short Program as of 2007/2008 season

 Fantaisie Impromptu by Frederic Chopin

Music Free Skating as of 2007/2008 season

 Capriccio Espagnol by Nikolai Rimski-Korsakov

Results / Eredmények

 

World Champs
Világbajnokság

Four Continent
Négy Kontinens

World Junior
Junior Világbajnokság

National Champs
Nemzeti Bajnokság

2000

 

 

7

8

2001

 

 

4

1 J

2002

 

 

2

5

2003

 

3

 

6

2004

 

6

 

7

2005

 

11

 

6

2006

5

2

 

5

2007

5

 

 

3

2008

4

 

 

3

J=Junior 

Personal Best Total Score

177,40

20.03.2008 World Championships 2008 

Personal Best Score Short Program

61,10

19.03.2008  World Championships 2008 

Personal Best Score Free Skating

116,30

20.03.2008  World Championships 2008

International Competition:

 2004

Cup of China, Beijing

11

 2005

NHK Trophy, Osaka 

1

 2005

Winter Universiade, Innsbruck

4

 2005

Skate Canada Int., St John's, NF

3

 2006

ISU Grand Prix Final, Tokyo

3

 2006

Cup of China, Nanjing

2

 2006

NHK Trophy, Nagano

3

 2007

Asian Winter Games

1

 2007

Skate Canada, Quebec City

2

 2007

Cup of Russia

2

 2008

ISU Grand Prix Final, Torino

5

 2008

 Skate America, Everett

2

 2008

 NHK Trophy, Tokyo

3

 2008

 ISU Grand Prix Final, Goyang

5


Nakano landed a triple Axel at Skate America in October 2002, thus becoming, together with Russian Liudmila Nelidina, the first skater to perform this element in competition since Midori Ito (JPN) landed a triple Axel at the 1992 Winter Games.


International Skating Union, Chemin de Primerose 2, CH - 1007 Lausanne 14.12.2008

Pictures / Képek

World Junior Championships 2002, Hamar, Norway

Rank:

Four Continent 2006, Colorado Springs, USA

World Championships 2006, Calgary, Canada

Rank: 5.

Short Program (6.)

World Championships 2007, Tokyo, Japan

Rank: 5.

Short Program (7.)

Free Program (6.)

Gala

World Championships 2008, Göteborg, Sweden

Rank: 4.

Short Program (3.)

Free Program (4.)

Gala

Skate America 2008, Everett

Rank:

NHK Trophy 2008

Rank: Bronze

Short Program

Free Program