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Date of birth: 16.03.1986 Daisuke TAKAHASHI
JPN
Place of birth: Okayama
Height: 165 cm
Home town: Okayama
Profession: student
Hobbies: shopping, meeting friends, Karaoke
Start sk. / Club: 1994 / Kansai University Skating Club
Coach: Utako Nagamitsu, Nikolai Morozov
Choreographer: Nikolai Morozov
Practice low season: 25 h / week at Osaka, Hackensack/USA
Practice high season: 25 h / week at Osaka, Hackensack/USA
Music Short Program / Original Dance as of season 2007/2008
Swan Lake by P. I. Tchaikovski (modern arrangement by various composers)
Music Free Skating / Free Dance as of season 2007/2008
Romeo and Juliet by Peter I. Tchaikovski
Personal Best Total Score264.4117.02.2008 Four Continents Championships 2008
Personal Best Score Short Program88.5713.02.2008 Four Continents Championships 2008
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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S=Senior; J=Junior; N=Novice
International CompetitionYearPlace
Winter Universiade 2007 Torino 2007 1.
Skate America 2007 Reading PA 2007 1.
NHK Trophy 2007 Sendai 2007 1.
ISU Grand Prix Final 2008 Torino 2008 2.
Takahashi is the first Japanese man to win a silver medal at Worlds (in 2007). Takahashi won the World Junior title the first time he competed in the event. His 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. The Hip Hop version of Swan Lake (Short Program) was especially arranged for Takahashi.
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