Yukari Nakano

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Yukari Nakano

Yukari Nakano ( Japanese 中 野 友 加里 , Nakano Yukari ; born August 25, 1985 in Kōnan , Japan ) is a Japanese figure skater who starts in a single run .

She began figure skating in 1991 at the Tokai Figure Skating Club Grand Prix and was trained by Machiko Yamada . Midori Ito motivated her to do even more intensive training.

Nakano won two Junior Grand Prix competitions and was a silver medalist at the 2002 Junior World Figure Skating Championships . She made history at Skate America in 2002 where she became the third figure skater to perform a three-time Axel for the first time in ten years. At the Japanese Championships in 2002, the West Japanese Championships in 2002 and the Kantō-Gakusei Freeskating Championships in 2004, she showed a triple-axel-double- toe loop combination.

From 2004 on, Nakano attended Waseda University in Tokyo .

After two disappointing seasons of the year (2003 to 2005), Nakano made a strong comeback in the 2005 to 2006 season. She won the NHK Trophy and the bronze medal at the Grand Prix final . In 2005 she landed three-time Axel in five consecutive competitions (Yamanashi Kokutai 2005, Kantō-Gakusei Freeskating Championships, Figure Skating Championships Tokyo, Skate Canada and the Asian Championships). At Skate Canada she was the first woman to have a triple axel under the new ISU rating system in the adult competition. She was fifth at the Japanese Championships 2005-2006 and missed thereby a starting place in the Olympic team. At the Japanese Championships 2006-2007 she was third behind Mao Asada and Miki Andō and thus acquired the right to participate in the subsequent World Championships, where she finished 5th. In the 2007/08 season she again landed three-time Axel successfully at Skate Canada, the Cup of Russia and the Grand Prix Final.

A characteristic element of Nakano is the "donut pirouette". She is also known for her wrapping technique during the jumps.

Successes / results

Competition / winter season 1998-99 1999-00 2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08
World championships 5. 5. 4th
Four continents championships 3. 6th 11. 2.
Junior World Figure Skating Championships 7th 4th 2.
Japanese championships 8th. 5. 6th 7th 6th 5. 3. 3.
Japanese Junior Championships 11. 1.
Winter Asian Games 3. 1.
Asian championships 1. 1.
Grand Prix Final 3. 5.
NHK Trophy 1. 3.
Cup of China 11. 2.
Skate America 7th 8th.
Skate Canada 11. 3. 2.
Cup of Russia 8th. 2.
Trophée Lalique 6th
Junior Grand Prix Final 5. 3. 5.
Junior Grand Prix, Japan 2. 2.
Junior Grand Prix, Bulgaria 3.
Junior Grand Prix, China 1.
Junior Grand Prix, Mexico 1.
Junior Grand Prix, Canada 4th

Web links

Commons : Yukari Nakano  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Figure Skating News: Nakano Won at the Asian Championships ( Memento from November 28, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Nakano, Yukari
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese figure skater
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Aichi , Japan