Miki Ando

Miki Ando
nation	Japan
birthday	18th December 1987
place of birth	Nagoya
size	162 cm
Career
discipline	Single run
Trainer	Valter Rizzo, Nikolai Morosow , Yuko Monna, Carol Heiss Jenkins , Nobuo Satō , Kumiko Sato, Sachiko Kozuka
choreographer	Natalja Bestemjanowa , Igor Bobrin , Lea Ann Miller , Stéphane Lambiel , Kenji Miyamoto, Noriko Sato, Nikolai Morosow, Patricia Wilcox, David Wilson , Marina Sujewa , Kumiko Sato, Yuko Monna
status	resigned
End of career	2013
Medal table
World Cup medals 2 × 0 × 1 × VKM medals 1 × 0 × 1 ×
World figure skating championships gold Tokyo 2007 Ladies bronze Los Angeles 2009 Ladies gold Moscow 2011 Ladies Four continents championships bronze Goyang 2008 Ladies gold Taipei 2011 Ladies
Personal best
Total points 201.34 VKM 2011  Freestyle 134.76 VKM 2011  Short program 67.98 World Cup 2007
Placements in the figure skating Grand Prix
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Grand Prix Final 0 1 0  Grand Prix competitions 5 5 2

Miki Andō ( Japanese 安藤 美 姫 , Andō Miki ; born December 18, 1987 in Nagoya ) is a former Japanese figure skater who started in a single run . She is the world champion of 2007 and 2011 .

Career

Andō began figure skating at the age of eight. As the first ever runner, she showed a quadruple jump ( Salchow ) at the junior championships in 2002 , and she also masters the triple axel .

In 2004 she became Junior World Champion and also won her first national championship among seniors . She finished fourth in her 2004 World Cup debut in Dortmund . The following year she defended her national title and finished the world championship in sixth place. In 2006 she disappointed at the Olympic Games in Turin , where she only came 15th in the overall standings after several falls in the freestyle.

Andō celebrated her greatest success to date in 2007 when she became world champion in Tokyo . In doing so, she defeated her greatest competitor Mao Asada by less than one point. At the 2009 World Cup , she won her second world championship medal with bronze. At their second Olympic Games, Andō finished fifth in 2010 in Vancouver .

In 2011 Andō was Japanese champion for the third time and won the gold medal at the four continents championships ahead of Mao Asada in Taipei with a new total of 201.34 points . At the World Championships , which had been moved from Tokyo to Moscow due to a severe earthquake in Japan , she won her second title.

She gave birth to a girl in April 2013. She has been in a relationship with Javier Fernández since autumn 2014 .

Results

Competition / season	2000/01	2001/02		2002/03		2003/04		2004/05	2005/06	2006/07	2007/08	2008/09	2009/10	2010/11
winter Olympics									15th				5.
World championships						4th		6th		1.	Z	3.	4th	1.
Four continents championships											3.			1.
Grand Prix Final								4th	4th	5.		6th	2.	5.
Junior World Championships		3.		2.		1.
Japanese championships	3rd J	1st J	3.	1st J	5.	1st J	1.	1.	6th	2.	2.	3.	4th	1.

• Z = withdrawn, J = juniors

Web links

Commons : Miki Ando  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Miki Ando in the database of the International Skating Union (English)
• Miki Andō in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.japantoday.com/category/sports/view/figure-skater-miki-ando-announces-she-is-a-mother
2. ↑ http://www.japancrush.com/2013/stories/scandal-as-top-figure-skater-has-child-out-of-wedlock.html
3. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/v1UbZbjixm/
4. ↑ https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/blogs/eh-game/new-spotlight-figure-skating-couple--miki-ando-and-toronto-resident-javier-fernandez-000721966.html
5. ↑ https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/blogs/eh-game/new-spotlight-figure-skating-couple--miki-ando-and-toronto-resident-javier-fernandez-000721966.html