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Date of birth: 16.03.1986 Daisuke TAKAHASHI
JPN
Place of birth: Kurashiki
Height: 165 cm
Home town: Agamasaki
Profession: graduate student
Hobbies: shopping, meeting friends
Start sk. / Club: 1994 / Kansai University SC
Coach: Utako Nagamitsu
Choreographer: David Wilson, Pasquale Camerlengo
Former Coach: Nikolai Morozov
Practice low season: 25 h / week at Osaka
Practice high season: 25 h / week at Osaka
Music Short Program / Short Dance as of season 2011/2012
In the Garden of Souls by Vas
Music Free Skating / Free Dance as of season 2011/2012
Blues for Klook by Eddy Louis
Personal Best Total Score264.4115.02.2008 Four Continents Championships 2008
Personal Best Score Short Program90.4312.11.2011 ISU GP NHK Trophy 2011
Personal Best Score Free Skating175.8415.02.2008 Four Continents Championships 2008
 
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Olympic Games
World Champ.
European Champ.
Four Continents
World Juniors
National Champ.
 
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Takahashi is the first Japanese male figure skater to medal at the Olympic Winter Games (bronze in 2010) and to win the World Championships (in 2010). He missed the entire 2008/09 season after tearing ligaments in his right knee in October 2008. He was back on the ice in April 2009 and started practising jumps in June 2009. Takahashi's idols in skating were Olympic Champions Alexei Yagudin, Evgeni Plushenko and Japan's Takeshi Honda. Takahashi moved to Osaka in 2004 to attend university. Meanwhile, the university has built a new ice rink where Takahashi and other elite skaters train. He has three older brothers, but they are not involved in sports.
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