Japanese Nationals

74th Japan National Figure Skating Championships
December 23-25 2005, Tokyo

JSF Official Result Site
http://www.skatingjapan.jp/

Fuji TV will air Dec 24-26.

Go MAO!!!! Kick Butt!!!!

74th All Japan Junior Championships, Dec 10-11, at Nagano, Nagano pref.
http://www.skatingjapan.jp/National/2005-2006/Figure/national_jr/index.htm

Men
1.Kozuka
2.Mura
3.Shibata
4.Ogami
5.Machida
6.Yoshida
7.Torii
8.Suenaga
9.Morinaga
10.Yuasa

Ladies
1.Sawada
2.Takeda
3.Kitamura
4.Suizu
5.Yoshida
6.Ishikawa
7.Mai Asada
8.Takayama
9.Nakamura
10.Hagiwara

Ice Dancing
1.Sawayama / Mizutani
2.Sugimoto / Ono

9th All Japan Novice Championships, Oct 29-30, at Kawagoe, Saitama pref.
http://www.skatingjapan.jp/National/2005-2006/Figure/national_nv/index.htm
Novice A Ladies
1.Nakamura
2.Nishino
3.Matsushita

Novice A Boys
1.Nakamura
2.Nozoe
3.Eguchi

Novice B Girls
1.Fujisawa
2.Murakami
3.Matsubara

Novice B Boys
1.Hino
2.Hanyu
3.Tanaka

Both result links is unfortunately Japanese texts.

Jr World team

Men
Takahiko Kozuka
Ryo Shibata
Takahito Mura

Ladies
Mao Asada
Aki Sawada
Nana Takeda

Senior Nationals invitation
Jr World team +
Takemochi Ogami (men)
Mai Asada (ladies)
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20051211-00000084-kyodo-spo

classification
Senior: age 15- as of previous July 1 and passed 7 class or higher test
Junior: age 13-18 as of previous July 1 and passed 6 class or higher test
Novice A: age 11-12 as of previous July 1 and passed 4 class or higher test
Novice B: age 9-10 as of previous July 1 and passed 3 class or higher test

Japanese olympic team set

http://www.cbc.ca/story/sports/national/2005/12/25/Sports/japanese_skating051225.html

After the japanese nationals, Fumie Suguri was first place, followed by Asada at second, and Arakawa third, Onda was fourth, Nakano was fifth, and Ando was sixth.

For the olympic team:
For ladies, Fumie Suguri, Shizuka Arakawa and Miki Ando will go to Turin.
For men,Daisuke Takahashi will be going.

I wonder why they didn't send Yukari Nakano even though she won a grand prix final bronze medal and placed higher than Miki Ando in the Japanese nationals. I thought I read somewhere that the Japanese skaters would be guaranteed a spot on the olympic team if they earn a medal for the grand prix final?

Mathman said:

Ando did not do so well in her last two events, but can see why the Japanese Federation still feels that she has a better chance of scoring well at the Olympics than Nakano does.

MM

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and don't you think the USFSA will do the same if the Nats does not produce the desired results?

Joe

Joesitz said:

and don't you think the USFSA will do the same if the Nats does not produce the desired results?

Joe

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I don't know. Can't wait to see what happens!

Joesitz said:

and don't you think the USFSA will do the same if the Nats does not produce the desired results?

Joe

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I assume you're referring to Kwan.

The difference with Japanese Nationals is that Miki Ando is not recovering from a serious injury. Fumie was, and she won the competition.

I hope the exact same scenario plays out for Kwan.