Daisuke Takahashi
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{{Infobox Figure skater
|title= Daisuke Takahashi
|image=[[Image:Daisuke Takahashi - 2006 Skate Canada.jpg|center|250px]]
|caption= Takahashi in 2006.
|country= {{JPN}}
|dateofbirth= {{birth date and age|1986|3|16}}
|residence= [[Osaka]], [[Japan]]
|height= {{convert|165|cm|ftin|abbr=on}}
|weight=
|partner=
|coach= [[Utako Nagamitsu]]
|formercoach= [[Nikolai Morozov (figure skater)|Nikolai Morozov]]
|choreographer=
|formerchoreographer= [[Nikolai Morozov (figure skater)|Nikolai Morozov]]
|skating club= Kansai University SC
|turned pro=
|combined total= 264.41
|combined date= [[2008 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships|2008 Four Continents]]
|SP score= 88.57
|SP date= [[2008 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships|2008 Four Continents]]
|FS score= 175.84
|FS date= [[2008 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships|2008 Four Continents]]
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{| class="infobox" style="width: 25em; cellpadding=4; font-size: 95%"
! colspan="4" bgcolor="#ffdead" | '''Most Recent Results:'''
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| ''Event'' || ''Points'' || ''Finish'' || ''Year''
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| bgcolor="#ffffff" | [[2008 World Figure Skating Championships|World Championships]]
| align="center" bgcolor="#efefef" | 220.11
| align="center" bgcolor="efefef" | 4th
| align="center" bgcolor="#efefef" | 2008
|}
'''Daisuke Takahashi''' (born [[March 16]], [[1986]] in [[Kurashiki, Okayama|Kurashiki]], [[Okayama Prefecture]], [[Japan]]) is a [[Japanese people|Japanese]] [[figure skater]]. He is the [[World Junior Figure Skating Championships|2002 World Junior Champion]], a three-time [[Japanese Figure Skating Championships|Japanese National Champion]] (2006-2008), the [[World Figure Skating Championships|2007 World silver medalist]], the [[2008 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships|2008 Four Continents Champion]] and was a member of the [[Japan at the 2006 Winter Olympics|2006 Olympic team]].
Takahashi is currently ranked first in the world.<ref>{{cite web
| url = http://www.isufs.org/ws/wsmen.htm
| title = Current ISU World Standings
| accessdate = 2008-02-15
}}</ref>
==Career==
Takahashi began figure skating when he was 8 years old. Because a skating rink was built near his house, he went to watch skaters at the rink with his mother and therefore enrolled in the figure skating club. His mother intended to let him enroll in the [[ice hockey]] club, but he didn't like the protective gear of ice hockey. Because a figure skating club practiced close to the ice hockey club, he chose figure skating instead.
Takahashi had an excellent junior career, winning [[World Junior Figure Skating Championships|Junior Worlds]] in [[2002 World Junior Figure Skating Championships|2002]], in his first (and only) time at that competition. Takahashi is the first Japanese man to win the World Junior Championships.
The following season, he turned senior, and his ascent slowed. Takahashi struggled with consistency and in the first few years of his senior career. He went into the [[2005 World Figure Skating Championships]], the event which would qualify Olympic spots to the [[2006 Winter Olympics]], as the reigning [[Four Continents]] bronze medalist. He was the second Japanese man on the team, after [[Takeshi Honda]]. However, after Honda was forced to withdraw due to injury, it fell on Takahashi to qualify spots to the Olympics for Japan. Takahashi placed 15th, qualifying only one spot for the Japanese men.
In the 2005-2006 season, [[Nobunari Oda]] emerged as a challenger for the Olympic spot. Oda and Takahashi both had very good [[ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating|Grand Prix]] seasons. At the [[2005-2006 Japan Figure Skating Championships|2005-2006 Japanese nationals]], however, Oda was declared the winner, but his gold medal was revoked when an error with the scoring machinery was found out. Takahashi was awarded the gold. The Japanese Skating Federation split the international assignments and gave Takahashi a spot to the Olympics and Oda a spot to Worlds. At the Olympics, Takahashi was in a medal position, but had a poor long program and placed 8th overall.
In the 2006-2007 competitive season, Takahashi won a silver medal at [[Skate Canada International]], then gold at the [[NHK Trophy]]. He qualified for the [[Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final]] and placed second, although he was ill. He won the [[2006-2007 Japan Figure Skating Championships|Japanese National title]] for the second year in a row, and then went on to the [[Winter Universiade]] in [[Torino, Italy]] and won that event as well. At the [[2007 World Figure Skating Championships]] he performed the skate of his life in front of his home country and ended up winning the silver medal. This was the first silver medal for Japan in the men's event at Worlds.
Following that season, Takahashi was ranked first in the World. However, over the summer the ISU tweaked their scoring criterea and he fell to second. This was in part because Takahashi was ranked ahead of [[Brian Joubert]], who had swept the season. Takahashi had been placed above due to his winning the Winter Universiade, a competition for which Joubert was not eligible because Joubert is not a university student.
In the 2007-2008 season, he won his Grand Prix Events and placed 2nd in [[Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final|The Grand Prix Final]]. A few weeks later, he won his third [[Japan Figure Skating Championships|Japanese Championship]] and was selected for the [[2008 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships|2008 Four Continents Championships]] and the [[World Figure Skating Championships|2008 World Championships]]. Takahashi won the [[2008 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships|Four Continents]], scoring a new record in the free skate (175.84) and in the total score (264.41) under the [[ISU Judging System]]. He was considered a favorite heading into the [[World Figure Skating Championships|2008 World Championships]] but finished off the podium after a disappointing free skate in which he fell on his second quad toe attempt, stumbled on a triple Axel and loop, and performed an extra combination which did not count towards his points total.<ref>[http://www.isu.org/vsite/vcontent/content/news/0,10869,4844-131973-133281-18886-283685-news-item,00.html ISU 2008 World Championships Summary] accessed May 6, 2008</ref>
==Personal life==
Takahashi is a student at [[Kansai University]], along with [[Nobunari Oda]]. For several years, he split his time between [[Hackensack, New Jersey]], where he trained under coach [[Nikolai Morozov (figure skater)|Nikolai Morozov]], and [[Osaka, Japan]], where he trains under coach [[Utako Nagamitsu]]. In May 2008, Takahashi announced that he would be parting ways with Morozov.<ref>[http://web.icenetwork.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080506&content_id=48086&vkey=ice_news Takahashi splits with coach Morozov] accessed May 8, 2008</ref> In May 2008, [[Nikolai Morozov]] explained the split by stating that he could no longer coach Takahashi because of problems with Takahashi's new agent.[http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/sp20080525jg.html]<ref>[http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/sp20080525jg.html] accessed May 31, 2008</ref>
==Competitive highlights==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Event
! 1999-2000
! 2000-2001
! 2001-2002
! 2002-2003
! 2003-2004
! 2004-2005
! 2005-2006
! 2006-2007
! 2007-2008
|-
| [[Winter Olympic Games]] || || || || || || || align="center" | 8th || ||
|-
| [[World Figure Skating Championships|World Championships]] || || || || || align="center" | 11th || align="center" | 15th || || align="center" bgcolor="silver" | 2nd || align="center" | 4th
|-
| [[Four Continents Figure Skating Championships|Four Continents Championships]] || || || || align="center" | 13th || align="center" | 6th || align="center" bgcolor="CC9966" | 3rd || || || align="center" bgcolor="gold" | 1st
|-
| [[World Junior Figure Skating Championships|World Junior Championships]] || || || align="center" bgcolor="gold" | 1st || || || || || ||
|-
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| [[Japanese Figure Skating Championships|Japanese Championships]] || || || align="center" | 5th || align="center" | 4th || align="center" bgcolor="CC9966" | 3rd || align="center" | 6th || align="center" bgcolor="gold" | 1st || align="center" bgcolor="gold" | 1st || align="center" bgcolor="gold" | 1st
|-
| [[Japan Junior Figure Skating Championships|Japanese Junior Championships]] || align="center" bgcolor="CC9966" | 3rd || align="center" | 4th || align="center" bgcolor="gold" | 1st || || || || || ||
|-
| [[Figure skating at the Winter Universiade|Winter Universiade]] || || || || || || align="center" bgcolor="gold" | 1st || || align="center" bgcolor="gold" | 1st ||
|-
| [[Grand Prix Final]] || || || || || || || align="center" bgcolor="CC9966" | 3rd || align="center" bgcolor="silver" | 2nd || align="center" bgcolor="silver" | 2nd
|-
| [[NHK Trophy]] || || || || align="center" | 8th || || || align="center" bgcolor="CC9966" | 3rd || align="center" bgcolor="gold" | 1st || align="center" bgcolor="gold" | 1st
|-
| [[Skate America]] || || || || || || || align="center" bgcolor="gold" | 1st || || align="center" bgcolor="gold" | 1st
|-
| [[Skate Canada International]] || || || || || align="center" | 7th|| || || align="center" bgcolor="silver" | 2nd ||
|-
| [[Trophee Eric Bompard]] || || || || || align="center" | 5th || align="center" | 11th || || ||
|-
| [[2001-2002 ISU Junior Grand Prix|ISU Junior Grand Prix Final]] || || || align="center" | 4th || || || || || ||
|-
| [[2001-2002 ISU Junior Grand Prix|Junior Grand Prix, Japan]] || || || align="center" bgcolor="gold" | 1st || || || || || ||
|-
| [[2001-2002 ISU Junior Grand Prix|Junior Grand Prix, Bulgaria]] || || || align="center" bgcolor="silver" | 2nd || || || || || ||
|-
| [[2000-2001 ISU Junior Grand Prix|Junior Grand Prix, Ukraine ]] || || align="center" | 8th || || || || || || ||
|-
| [[2000-2001 ISU Junior Grand Prix|Junior Grand Prix, China ]] || || align="center" | 9th || || || || || || ||
|}
==References==
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[[Category:1986 births]]
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[[Category:Olympic figure skaters of Japan]]
[[Category:People from Okayama Prefecture]]
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