Takahiko Kozuka

Takahiko Kozuka
nation	Japan
birthday	February 27, 1989
place of birth	Nagoya
size	170 cm
Career
discipline	Single run
society	Toyota Motor Corporation SC
Trainer	Nobuo Sato , Kumiko Sato , Reiko Kobayashi
Former trainers	Yuka Satō , Tsuguhiko Kozuka
choreographer	Kenji Miyamoto, Lori Nichol
status	resigned
End of career	2016
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 1 × 0 × VKM medals 0 × 0 × 1 ×
World figure skating championships silver Moscow 2011 Men's Four continents championships bronze Vancouver 2009 Men's
Personal best
Total points 258.41 World Cup 2011  Freestyle 180.79 World Cup 2011  Short program 86.39 GPF 2012
Placements in the figure skating Grand Prix
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Grand Prix Final 0 1 1  Grand Prix competitions 4th 4th 3

Takahiko Kozuka ( Japanese 小 塚 崇 彦 , Kozuka Takahiko ; born February 27, 1989 in Nagoya ) is a former Japanese figure skater who started in a single run .

Career

His father Tsuguhiko Kozuka was also a figure skater and participated in the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble in singles. His mother was an ice dancer. His grandfather Mitsuhiko was also a figure in the early years of Japanese figure skating. Kozuka himself began to get enthusiastic about figure skating when he watched Yuka Satōs world championship win on television in 1994 .

Kozuka became the third Japanese junior world champion in 2006 after Daisuke Takahashi and Nobunari Oda .

In 2008, Kozuka made his debut at World and Four Continents Championships and finished eighth in each case.

His first medal at an important championship he won the following year with bronze at the Four Continents Championship in 2009. A little later he reached sixth place at the World Championships in Los Angeles . Kozuka finished his first Olympic Games in 2010 in Vancouver in eighth place. At the world championship in the Olympic year it was only enough for him to finish tenth.

In 2011 Kozuka went for the first time as a Japanese champion . At the 2011 World Championships in Moscow , he won his first World Championship medal when Canadian Patrick Chan won silver. After finishing sixth in the short program, the decisive factor for this success was his freestyle for Liszt's 1st Piano Concerto , which was an improvement on his previous best performance in this segment by more than ten points and was the second best freestyle in the field.

Kozuka's trainers are Nobuo Satō and Kumiko Satō .

Results

Championship / year	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016
winter Olympics						8th.
World championships				8th.	6th	10.	2.	11.		6th	12.
Four continents championships				8th.	3.		4th			2.
World Team Trophy					3.			1.
Junior World Championships		1.
Japanese championships	4th	4th	6th	2.	2.	3.	1.	2.	5.	3.	3.	5.
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Grand Prix competition / season	04/05	05/06	06/07	07/08	08/09	09/10	10/11	11/12	12/13	13/14	14/15	15/16
Grand Prix Final					2.		3.		5.
Skate America				8th.	1.			3.	1.	6th
Cup of Russia				5.		2.			2.		6th	9.
Eric Bompard Trophy			6th		2.		1.
NHK Trophy			3.			7th		2.
Cup of China							1.			3.		Z

Z = withdrawn

Kozuka at the Cup of Russia 2007

Web links

Commons : Takahiko Kozuka  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Takahiko Kozuka in the database of the International Skating Union (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/sp20110130it.html