Takahiko Kozuka
Takahiko Kozuka (Japanese小 冢 崇 彦, Takahiko Kozuka, born February 27, 1989 in Nagoya ) is a Japanese figure skater who starts in a single run.
His father was also Tsuguhiko Kozuka figure skater and participated in the 1968 Olympic Winter Games in Grenoble in a single part. His mother was Eistänzerin. His grandfather Mitsuhiko was a personality in the early years of Japanese figure skating sport. Kozuka itself began to be inspired for the figure skating when he Yuka Sato's World Cup win watched on television in 1994.
Kozuka was founded in 2006 as the third Japanese by Daisuke Takahashi and Oda Nobunari Junior World Champion.
2008 Kozuka had his debut at the World and Four Continents Championships and finished in eighth place respectively.
His first medal at a major championship, he won the following year with the bronze medal at the Four Continents Championship 2009. Shortly afterwards, he reached at the World Championships in Los Angeles in sixth place. His first Olympics ended Kozuka 2010 in Vancouver eighth. At the World Championships in the Olympic year, it was enough for him merely to tenth place.
In the year 2011 Kozuka went for the first time as a Japanese master. At the 2011 World Championships in Moscow he won the victory of Canadian Patrick Chan with his first World Cup silver medal. The main reason for this success was after the sixth place in the short program his routine to Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 1, which was an improvement in his best performance in this segment by more than ten points and was the second best freestyle of the field.
Kožukas trainers are Nobuo Satō, Kumiko Satō and his father Tsuguhiko Kozuka. His choreographer is Satō Yuka. He starts the engine for the car manufacturer Toyota.