Takeshi Honda

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the Japanese soccer player of the same name, see Takeshi Honda (soccer player) .

Takeshi Honda
nation	Japan
birthday	March 23, 1981
place of birth	Kōriyama, Fukushima
size	168 cm
Career
Trainer	Doug Leigh Michelle Leigh Galina Smijewskaja Hiroshi Nagakubo
status	resigned
End of career	2006
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 0 × 2 × VKM medals 2 × 2 × 0 ×
World figure skating championships bronze Nagano 2002 Men's bronze Washington DC 2003 Men's Four continents championships gold Halifax 1999 Men's silver Salt Lake City 2001 Men's silver Jeonju 2002 Men's gold Beijing 2003 Men's

Takeshi Honda ( Japanese 本田 武 史 , Honda Takeshi ; born March 23, 1981 in Kōriyama , Fukushima Prefecture ) is a former Japanese figure skater who started in a single run . He is the four continents champion in 1999 and 2003.

Career

Honda started training short track with his brother Hiroshi at the age of 9 but soon switched to figure skating . For the fact that he started figure skating quite late, he made great progress quickly. At age 14, he became the youngest Japanese figure skating champion in history. He won a total of six national titles.

His first coach was Hiroshi Nagakubo. He later left Japan for the USA to train with Galina Smijewskaja . From there he again moved to Barrie , Canada to train at the Mariposa School of Skating with Douglas Leigh .

In 1999 Honda won the first four continents championship in Halifax, Canada . He won this title again in Beijing in 2003 .

In 2002 and 2003 , Honda won bronze medals at the world championships . He was the first Japanese figure skater since Minoru Sano in 1977 to win a world championship medal again. At the 2002 Olympics , Honda finished fourth, narrowly missing out on a medal. In 2004 and 2005 he could hardly contest competitions due to injury or had to give up like at the 2005 World Cup . In 2006, the six-time Japanese champion finally ended his career.

Results

Competition / year	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
winter Olympics			15th				4th
World championships	13.	10.	11.	6th	10.	5.	3.	3.		Z
Four continents championships				1.	5.	2.	2.	1.	Z
Japanese championships	1.	1.			1.	1.		1.		1.	5.

Z = withdrawn

Web links

• Takeshi Honda in the database of the International Skating Union (English)
• Takeshi Honda in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )