Daisuke Takahashi

Daisuke Takahashi (Japanese髙 桥 大 辅, Takahashi Daisuke, born March 16, 1986 in Kurashiki ) is a Japanese figure skater who starts in a single run. He is the 2010 World Champion and Four Continents champion in 2008 and 2011.

Career

2002 Takahashi became the first Japanese Figure Skating Junior World Champion. His first big success in the seniors in 2007 was winning the vice-champion title on home soil in Tokyo, behind Brian Joubert. In 2008 he also won the Four Continents Championship. There, he set up the valid to 2011 world records for freestyle and total score.

After one year injury break he presented himself at the Olympic Games in Vancouver again in its former strength and won behind Evan Lysacek and Evgeni Plyushchenko the bronze medal. It was the first Olympic medal for a Japanese figure skater. At the World Championships 2010 in Turin Takahashi became the first Japanese to win the title in the men's competition. He used the composition La Strada by Nino Rota for his routine.

In February 2011, Takahashi won his second title in Taipei sovereign at Four Continents Championships. As reigning world champion Takahashi went to the World Cup, which took place as planned in Tokyo, but in Moscow due to the earthquake in Japan. After his short program, which did not include a quadruple jump, he had been lying in third place. His freestyle he had to stop right at the start because of a problem skids. On his first jump, toe loop four times, he noticed the damage that had to stop the plunge and took a three-minute break to fix the problem. The leap he was not allowed to repeat after this time out according to the regulations. He took his routine again, there was a triple flip- triple toe loop combination, and four other triple jumps, but fell at the triple Salchow and got out at the triple Axel. In the end, it was enough for the defending champions to fifth place. Takahashi was especially postponed a necessary knee surgery in order to defend his title in front of his home crowd can. After laying the World Cup in Moscow, he had to wait so much longer.

After the successful knee surgery began the new season for Takahashi. He won at the NHK Trophy and won the Grand Prix Final silver medal behind Patrick Chan. At the Four Continents Championships and the World Championships this result, where he came Chan at the World Cup next repeated. His freestyle Eddy Louis's ' Blues for Klook was used artistically safe. As intended by him at the beginning of the season, he managed to show a clean quadruple toe loop in competition again. Its flip was however unterrotiert. At the end of Takahashi missing 6.45 points to a non- error-free chan. At the end of the season Takahashi took part for his country at the only the second time discharged World Team Trophy. In Tokyo he had domestic large share of the first victory of Japan in this competition. He reached 94 points a points world record in the short program, also improved his personal best in freestyle ( 182.72 points) and overall performance ( 276.72 points) and won the individual competition before Chan.

After two second places in his Grand Prix competitions Takahashi won in December 2012 in Sochi became the first Japanese Grand Prix Final. He joined the Japanese championships from second behind Yuzuru Hanyu. However, neither at the Four Continents Championship still in the World Cup in 2013 he was able to continue his performance from the Grand Prix Final and remained in seventh or sixth without a medal.

Training

Takahashi studied together with Nobunari Oda at Kansai University. For some years he commuted to his training between Hackensack, New Jersey, where he trained with Nikolai Morozov, and Osaka, where he coached at Utako Nagamitsu. In May 2008, he finished with Nikolai Morozov Zusammenerbeit.

Results

Takahashi missed the entire 2008/09 season

Winter Olympic Games 2007 World Figure Skating Championships 2010 World Figure Skating Championships 2012 World Figure Skating Championships 2012 ISU World Team Trophy in Figure Skating Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final Kurashiki, Okayama Single skating World Junior Figure Skating Championships 2011 World Figure Skating Championships Toe loop jump Flip jump Axel jump Eddy Louiss Japan Figure Skating Championships 2013 World Figure Skating Championships Hackensack (New Jersey) Nikolai Morozov (figure skater) Figure skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics 2004 World Figure Skating Championships 2005 World Figure Skating Championships 2008 World Figure Skating Championships ISU World Team Trophy in Figure Skating Skate America Skate Canada International Cup of China International Skating Union Gilbert Fuchs Henning Grenander Ulrich Salchow Fritz Kachler Felix Kaspar Henry Graham Sharp Hans Gerschwiler Hayes Alan Jenkins Alain Giletti Donald McPherson (figure skater) Manfred Schnelldorfer Alain Calmat Emmerich Danzer Tim Wood (figure skater) Jan Hoffmann Sergey Nikolayevich Volkov Charles Tickner Brian Orser Kurt Browning Elvis Stojko Todd Eldredge Jeffrey Buttle Adam Rippon 2009 ISU World Team Trophy in Figure Skating Jeremy Abbott Caroline Zhang Rachael Flatt Tanith Belbin Benjamin Agosto Akiko Suzuki Kanako Murakami Narumi Takahashi Mervin Tran Max Aaron Gracie Gold Ashley Wagner Evan Bates Dennis Coi Paul Wylie Christopher Bowman Igor Pashkevich Dmitri Dmitrenko Johnny Weir Andrei Rogozine Toshikazu Katayama Minoru Sano Fumio Igarashi
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