Yuzuru Hanyu
Yuzuru Hanyū (Japanese羽 生 结 弦, Hanyū Yuzuru; * December 7, 1994 in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture) is a Japanese figure skater who starts in a single run. He is the Olympic champion in 2014 and the world champion of 2014.
Career
Hanyū began at the age of four years with the figure skating, animated by his older sister Saya. He attended the same school in Sendai as Takeshi Honda and Shizuka Arakawa. Hanyū suffers from asthma and admired Johnny Weir, who has already designed a costume for him.
At the top of juniors and first success in the senior
Was Hanyū than twofold Japanese junior champion in 2010 in The Hague also Junior World Champion.
His first major international appearance at the seniors he had at the Four Continents Championship 2011 in Taipei. He won there with a personal best of 228.01 points, the silver medal behind compatriot Daisuke Takahashi.
Season 2011/12
At the Cup of Russia 2011 Hanyū celebrated his first Grand Prix victory. He improved his personal best in the short program, free skating and overall performance. In the latter, he reached 241.66 points. At the Grand Prix Final, for which he was qualified for the first time, he missed a medal in fourth place only scarce, but increased his personal best in the freestyle at 166.49 points in the overall performance on 245.82 points.
In the Japanese Championships succeeded Hanyū first to reach the podium. He won the bronze medal behind Daisuke Takahashi and Takahiko Kozuka. This meant qualification for the World Cup.
During his World Cup debut in Nice the 17-year old had stood after the short program in seventh place, as he had his Lutz simply rotates, then, however, showed the freestyle his young life. For film music of Romeo and Juliet and Escape from Plunkett & Macleane he started with a safe and beautiful quadruple toe loop and standing all other jumps, including eight triple jumps, impeccable. He did not get a negative rating in the execution of its elements ( GOE ). Only at a run he once fell to the ground, what the overall picture is not negatively influenced. His artistic maturity and highly emotional freestyle at the end brought him a standing ovation and loud shouts of admiration from the audience. Hanyū himself could hardly believe his performance and got after the freestyle a crying fit. His freestyle was rated as the second best of the field, he even beat his compatriot Takahashi by 0.05 points in this segment and was rewarded with the bronze medal total. Hanyū increased his personal best in the freestyle and broke through with his 251.06 points in the overall performance for the first time the 250 -point mark. By Hanyūs bronze medal and silver medal Takahashi Japan was able to win two medals for the first time in the history of Lord competition Figure skating World Championships at the World Cup.
2012/13 season
Hanyū started the season with a victory at the Finlandia Trophy. He showed for the first time in a competition a quadruple Salchow. His first Grand Prix appearance of the season he played at Skate America. There he presented in the short program with 95.07 points, setting a new world record. He showed a fourfold toe loop, an effortless triple axel and a triple Lutz- triple toe loop - combination. The latter two elements he jumped into the second half of his short program, which earned him bonus points. Although Hanyūs attention by his own admission was on the technical components, he also got a high score in the artistic field. However, his big lead from the short program could not save on the freestyle Hanyū. He fell three times and had his compatriot Takahiko Kozuka left the gold medal. On his second Grand Prix competition, the NHK Trophy, Hanyū improved his reached at Skate America points world record in the short program at 95.32 points. To the music " Parisian Walkways " by Gary Moore, he was solid in his jumps, as well as safe and liquid in his footwork. For each element he got from all nine judges positive reviews in the level of implementation ( GOE ). His pirouettes were evaluated with the maximum Level 4. In the freestyle Hanyū made as with Skate America errors, but this time was able to defend his lead and win the gold medal in his hometown. At the Grand Prix Final, the young Japanese won the silver medal behind compatriot Daisuke Takahashi. Here he set up personal bests in the free skate ( 177.12 points) and overall performance ( 264.29 points).
On 22 December 2012, Yuzuru Hanyū in Sapporo for the first time a Japanese master.
The Four Continents Championship 2013 ended Hanyū as two years earlier, by winning the silver medal. He succumbed to the surprise winner Kevin Reynolds. After this competition, the Japanese suffered a knee injury and ill with the flu. Significantly weakened it enough at the world championships in London Canadian to fourth place.
2013/2014 season
In his first Olympic season Hanyū started with second place finishes in his two Grand Prix competitions, Skate Canada and the Trophée Eric Bompard. He qualified for the Grand Prix Final in Fukuoka, where he set a new world record of 99.84 points points in the short program and won for the first time in his career gold.
In December 2013 Hanyū defended his title at the Japanese championships.
His debut at the Olympic Games began for Hanyū with a new world record of 101.45 points points in the short program. As the first figure skater he broke through with it the mark of 100 points in this segment. In the freestyle, the Japanese made mistakes, but could not use his star border after him competitor Patrick Chan. Hanyū thus won this segment and was the first Japanese Olympic gold medalist in figure skating men. The Japanese succeeded in this as youngest skaters since Richard Button 1948.
At the World Cup at home in Saitama Hanyū was after the short program behind compatriot Tatsuki Machida and his training colleagues Javier Fernández. However, with an energy output that was given him credit for after the Olympic Games only a few, he managed to make up the backlog and to secure a lead of 0.33 points ahead of Machida his first world title.
Training and Technology
Hanyū coached until 2012 in his home city of Sendai with his longtime coach Nanami Abe. Because of his asthma and his school days he often only two hours of training a day. The earthquake and tsunami in March 2011, the water pipes broke under his training hall. He had to go to Yokohama and Hachinohe dodge to the Hall 24 July 2011 could be opened again. In April 2012 Hanyū joined coach Brian Orser. The reason the director of the Japanese Skating Federation Hidehito Ito stated the need for a challenge and the increase of his figure skating levels. Hanyū will continue to go to school in Sendai, but regularly fly with his mother to train to Toronto. Brian Orser revealed in an interview from October 2012 Hanyūs pleased with courtesy and helpfulness in dealing with his training colleagues Javier Fernández. However Orser need a translator.
Hanyū has already been triple Axel - triple Axel and quad toe loop - triple Axel sequences in shows.