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Shingo Nishiyama
is a Japanese ice dancer. He and current partner Azusa Tanaka are the Figure skating at the 2025 Asian Winter Games, 2025 Asian Winter Games bronze mealists and two-time Japan Figure Skating Championships, Japanese national silver medalists (2023–24 Japan Figure Skating Championships, 2023–24, 2024–25 Japan Figure Skating Championships, 2024–25). With his former skating partner, Utana Yoshida, he was a two-time Japanese national junior ice dance champion (2019–20 Japan Figure Skating Championships#Junior-level results, 2020, 2020–21 Japan Figure Skating Championships#Junior-level results, 2021) and a Figure skating at the Youth Olympic Games, 2020 Winter Youth Olympics champion in the Figure skating at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics – Team trophy, team event. He later competed for one season with Ayumi Takanami, winning the bronze medal at the 2021–22 Japan Figure Skating Championships, 2021–22 Japan Championships. Personal life Shingo Nishiyama was born on J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020 Winter Youth Olympics
The 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games (; ; ; ), officially known as the III Winter Youth Olympic Games and commonly known as Lausanne 2020 (Italian and Romansh: ''Losanna 2020''), were the third edition of the Winter Youth Olympics; a major international multi-sport event and cultural festival for teenagers that was held in Lausanne, Switzerland, the home of the International Olympic Committee, between 9 and 22 January 2020. Bidding process The bidding calendar was announced by the IOC on 6 June 2013, with the application deadline set for 28 November 2013.IOC opens bids for 2022 Olympic Winter Games, YOG 2020 International Olympic Committee - 06/06/2013 |
2021–22 Japan Figure Skating Championships
The 2021–22 Japan Figure Skating Championships were held in Saitama (city), Saitama, Saitama Prefecture, Saitama on December 22–26, 2021. It was the 90th edition of the event. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of single skating, men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, pairs, and ice dance. The results were part of the Japanese selection criteria for the 2022 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships, 2022 Four Continents Championships, the Figure skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics, 2022 Winter Olympics, and the 2022 World Figure Skating Championships, 2022 World Championships. Qualifying Competitors either qualified at regional and sectional competitions, held from September to November 2021, or earned a bye. Medal summary Senior Junior Novice Entries A list of preliminary entries was published on December 4, 2021. Names with an asterisk (*) denote junior skaters. Junior The top six finishers at the Japan Junior Championships in men's a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tracy Wilson
Tracy Wilson, (born September 25, 1961) is a Canadian former competitive ice dancer. With partner Rob McCall, she won the Canadian national championship seven times (1982–1988), is a three-time World bronze medallist, and the 1988 Olympic bronze medallist. Personal life Wilson was born on September 25, 1961, in Lachine, Quebec, Canada. She grew up in Port Moody, British Columbia. As child she did swimming and diving, competing at provincials three times. She first swam with the Coquitlam Sharks in 1967 before moving, in 1970, to Port Moody Aquarians. She attended college for one semester before her partnership with Rob McCall began. In 1987, Wilson married Brad Kinsella. Though she did not change her name at the time, her name is sometimes printed as Tracy Wilson-Kinsella or Tracy Wilson Kinsella. Together they have three children – two sons who play hockey and a daughter who competes as an equestrian. They live in Toronto, Ontario. Skating career Wilson started skatin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Orser
Brian Ernest Orser (born 18 December 1961) is a Canadian former competitive and professional figure skater and coach to Olympic champions. He is the 1984 and 1988 Olympic silver medallist, 1987 World champion and eight-time (1981–88) Canadian national champion. At the 1988 Winter Olympics, the rivalry between Orser and American figure skater Brian Boitano, who were the two favorites to win the gold medal, captured media attention and was described as the " Battle of the Brians". Orser turned professional in 1988 and skated with Stars on Ice for almost 20 years. As a coach, he has led both Yuna Kim (2010) and Yuzuru Hanyu (2014, 2018) to Olympic titles. He also coached Javier Fernández to Olympic bronze (2018) and the 2015 and 2016 World titles. He is a Skating Consultant at the Toronto Cricket Skating and Curling Club. Early life Brian Orser was born in Belleville, Ontario. He grew up in Penetanguishene. He is the youngest of five children. Skating career Orser won h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its Provinces and territories of Canada, ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, making it the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, second-largest country by total area, with the List of countries by length of coastline, world's longest coastline. Its Canada–United States border, border with the United States is the world's longest international land border. The country is characterized by a wide range of both Temperature in Canada, meteorologic and Geography of Canada, geological regions. With Population of Canada, a population of over 41million people, it has widely varying population densities, with the majority residing in List of the largest population centres in Canada, urban areas and large areas of the country being sparsely populated. Canada's capital is Ottawa and List of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2013 ISU World Team Trophy In Figure Skating
The 2013 ISU World Team Trophy was an international team figure skating competition in the 2012–13 season. Participating countries selected two men's single skaters, two ladies' single skaters, one pair and one ice dancing entry to compete in a team format with points based on the skaters' placement. Entries Overview Six countries qualified for the event: Canada (7824 points), the United States (7156), Japan (6823), Russia (6648), France (4826), and China (4702). Japan had no pair entry due to the split of Narumi Takahashi / Mervin Tran. There were several changes to the initial roster. Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev withdrew due to an injury to Soloviev and Ksenia Monko / Kirill Khaliavin were named in their place. Nathalie Péchalat / Fabian Bourzat were replaced by Pernelle Carron / Lloyd Jones, Florent Amodio by Romain Ponsart, and Song Nan by Wang Yi. Japan and the United States were tied with 47 points each after the first day of competition, with Russia in thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yutaka Higuchi (figure Skater)
is a Japanese people, Japanese figure skater who is now a coach and figure skating commentator. He is a three-time Japan Figure Skating Championships, Japanese national champion. He placed 25th in the 1968 Winter Olympic Games, and 16th in the 1972 Winter Olympic Games. Competitive highlights See also *Figure skating at the 1968 Winter Olympics *Figure skating at the 1972 Winter Olympics External linksJapan Figure Skating Instructor Association 1949 births Living people Figure skaters from Tokyo Japanese male single skaters Olympic figure skaters for Japan Figure skaters at the 1960 Winter Olympics Figure skaters at the 1964 Winter Olympics 20th-century Japanese sportsmen {{Japan-figure-skating-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shinjuku
, officially called Shinjuku City, is a special ward of Tokyo, Japan. It is a major commercial and administrative center, housing the northern half of the busiest railway station in the world ( Shinjuku Station) as well as the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, the administrative center of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government. , the ward has an estimated population of 346,235 and a population density of 18,232 people per km2. The total area is 18.23 km2. Since the end of World War II, Shinjuku has become a major secondary center of Tokyo ( ''fukutoshin''), rivaling the original city center in Marunouchi. "Shinjuku" is also commonly used to refer to Shinjuku Station. The southern half of this area and majority of the station are in fact located in the neighboring Shibuya ward. History In 1634, during the Edo period, as the outer moat of the Edo Castle was built, a number of temples and shrines moved to the Yotsuya area on the western edge of Shinjuku. In 1698, Nai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Citizens' Plaza
Citizens' Plaza (or Citizen's Plaza) is an urban plaza in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. Public art Artworks installed in the plaza include: * ''Adam Y Eva (Junkanmutan)'' (Munehiro Ikeda) * ''Blacken Sproute'' ( Churyo Sato) * ''Column of Four Squares Eccentric'' (George Rickey) * ''Epidauros・Reminiscence'' (Toshio Yodoi) * ''Flutter'' (Yasutake Dvunakoshi) * ''In the wind'' (Goro Kakei) * ''Listening to the Heaven'' (Keiko Amemiya) * ''Mari'' (Kyoko Asakura was a Japanese sculptor. Her birth name was written . She was the second daughter of sculptor Fumio Asakura and sister of stage designer and painter Setsu Asakura. Career * 1948 - Nitten Excellence * 1956 - withdrew from Nitten * 1979 - ...) * ''my sky hole 91 Tokyo'' (Bukichi Inoue) * ''Song of a dog'' (Yoshitatsu Yanaguihara) * ''Three Rectangles Horizontal Jointed Gyratory'' (George Rickey) References External links * Geography of Tokyo Shinjuku {{Japan-struct-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuzuru Hanyu
is a Japanese figure skater and ice show producer. Universally regarded as one of the greatest figure skaters in history for his well-rounded skills, achievements, innovations, longevity, popularity, and impact on the sport, he started skating at four years old and competed in the men's singles discipline from 2004 to 2022. Hanyu is the first male single skater in 66years since Dick Button to win back-to-back Olympic titles (2014, 2018), and also the first and youngest Asian Olympic champion in that discipline. He is a two-time World champion (2014, 2017), six-time Japanese national champion (2012–2015, 2020–2021), and the first single skater to win four consecutive Grand Prix Finals (2014–2017). With his win at the 2020Four Continents Championships, he became the first skater in men's singles to complete the Super Slam, having won all major international junior and senior titles in the course of his career. He is also the first and only single skater to be rank ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akane Takada
is a Japanese ballerina and a principal dancer with the Royal Ballet in London. Her lead roles have included the title role in ''Giselle'', Nikiya in La Bayadère, Kitri in ''Don Quixote'', and Aurora in '' The Sleeping Beauty''. Early life and education Akane Takada was born 18 April 1990 in Tokyo. She is from the Higashishinkoiwa neighborhood in Katsushika, and began ballet training at the Hiromi Takahashi Ballet Studio in nearby Edogawa at the age of three. When she was twelve years old, a serious knee ligament injury dislocated her patella and interrupted her training for over a year while she physically grew enough to make corrective surgery possible. After winning a scholarship from ballet equipment company Chacott at the National Ballet Association competition, she studied at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy from 2006 to 2008, initially taking the classes for international dancers, but eventually joining the Russian classes. She won both a scholarship and an Audience Favorit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waseda University
Waseda University (Japanese: ), abbreviated as or , is a private university, private research university in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Founded in 1882 as the Tōkyō Professional School by Ōkuma Shigenobu, the fifth Prime Minister of Japan, prime minister of Japan, the school was formally renamed Waseda University in 1902. Waseda is organized into 36 departments: 13 undergraduate schools and 23 graduate schools. As of 2023, there are 38,776 undergraduate students and 8,490 graduate students. In addition to a central campus in Shinjuku (Waseda Campus and Nishiwaseda Campus), the university operates campuses in Chūō, Tokyo, Chūō, Nishitōkyō, Tokyo, Nishitōkyō, Tokorozawa, Saitama, Tokorozawa, Honjō, Saitama, Honjō, and Kitakyūshū, Fukuoka, Kitakyūshū. Waseda also operates 21 research institutes at its main Shinjuku campus. The university is selected as one of the Top Type (Type A) universities under Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, MEXT's Top Gl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
