2008–09 Japan Figure Skating Championships Explained

2008–09 Japan Figure Skating Championships
Comptype:	National Championship
Startdate:	December 25
Enddate:	27
Skatingseason:	2008–09
Location:	Nagano
Venue:	Big Hat
Championmen:	Nobunari Oda (S) Yuzuru Hanyu (J)
Championladies:	Mao Asada (S) Haruka Imai (J)
Championpairs:	Narumi Takahashi / Mervin Tran
Championdance:	Cathy Reed / Chris Reed (S) Nana Sugiki / Taiyo Mizutani (J)
Previouscomp:	2007–08 Japan Championships
Nextcomp:	2009–10 Japan Championships

The 2008–09 Japan Figure Skating Championships were the 77th edition of the event. It took place between December 25 and 27, 2008 at the Big Hat arena in Nagano. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing on the senior level for the title of national champion of Japan. In addition, the event will also be used to choose the Japanese teams to the 2009 World Championships and the 2009 Four Continents Championships. The Japanese team to the 2009 World Junior Championships was chosen at the Japanese Junior Championships.

Competition notes

• The following skaters placed high enough at Junior Nationals and so were invited to compete at Senior Nationals: Yuzuru Hanyu (1st in junior), Tatsuki Machida (2nd in junior), Daisuke Murakami (3rd in junior) and Kento Nakamura (4th in junior) for the men; Haruka Imai (1st in junior), Mari Suzuki (2nd in junior), Kanako Murakami (3rd in junior), and Ayane Nakamura (4th in junior) for the ladies; and Nana Sugiki / Taiyo Mizutani (1st in junior) in ice dancing.

Results

Men

Rank	Name	Club	Total points	SP		FS
1		Kansai Univ Skating Club	243.70	1	86.45	1	157.25
2		Toyota Motor	225.94	2	77.40	2	148.54
3		Kurashiki suisho High School	200.48	3	75.50	4	124.98
4		Fukuya Co.	197.69	6	69.15	3	128.54
5		Aomoriyamada Highschool	187.50	4	71.30	7	116.20
6		Papio Figure Club	184.18	7	67.80	6	116.38
7		Kansai Univ Skating Club	183.73	5	70.33	8	113.40
8		Miyagi FSC	181.65	8	64.50	5	117.15
9		Kurashiki FSC	176.74	9	63.45	9	113.29
10		Shinyokohama Prince Club	168.68	10	60.70	10	107.98
11		Meijijingu Gaien FSC	159.84	11	59.35	11	100.49
12		Fukuoka Univ	149.68	15	50.45	12	99.23
13		Hokkaido.Forest.F.S.C	147.55	12	55.43	15	92.12
14		Meiji Univ	146.17	17	48.96	14	97.21
15	Naoto Saito	Tohoku Fukushi University	143.65	18	45.60	13	98.05
16		Meiji Univ	141.38	13	53.80	17	87.58
17		Chukyo Univ	140.66	14	50.56	16	90.10
18		Tohoku Fukushi University	125.16	16	49.86	20	75.30
19	Junzo Nishigami	Kansai Univ Skating Club	123.34	19	44.96	19	78.38
20		Kansai Univ Skating Club	119.94	21	39.43	18	80.51
21		St.Catherine ISC	112.63	20	43.09	22	69.54
22		Morioka FSC	107.32	24	35.65	21	71.67
23		Osakauniv Of Economicsisc	106.71	23	37.21	23	69.50
24		Toyo Univ	102.66	22	38.12	24	64.54
Did not advance to free skating
25		Toyo Univ		25	32.32
26		Ritsumei Univ.		26	31.32
WD	Kunihito Yuasa	Aichi mizuho Univ

Ladies

Rank	Name	Club	Total points	SP		FS
1		Chukyo Senior High School	182.45	2	65.30	2	117.15
2		Avex	178.59	5	57.32	1	121.27
3		Toyota Motor	174.09	3	65.02	4	109.07
4		Howa sports landSkateclub	173.98	6	57.02	3	116.96
5		Prince Hotel	172.60	1	67.26	6	105.34
6		Waseda Univ	164.73	4	57.82	5	106.91
7		Grand Prix Tokai Club	147.83	7	55.74	8	92.09
8		Kobe PFSC	146.27	8	53.08	7	93.19
9		Meito Figure Skating Club	138.07	13	46.64	9	91.43
10		Chukyo Univ	132.79	9	48.72	10	84.07
11		Kansai Univ Skating Club	128.95	11	48.36	12	80.59
12		Tohoku Univ	126.40	12	47.58	13	78.82
13	Ayako Hagiwara	Meiji Univ	124.54	17	42.82	11	81.72
14		Musashino FSC	121.39	16	43.86	14	77.53
15		Chukyo Univ	120.77	15	44.50	16	76.27
16		AMC Mizuho High School	118.68	14	45.86	17	72.82
17		Kwansei Gakuin Univ	118.25	10	48.56	21	69.69
18		Kyoto Nishi High.	115.56	20	38.28	15	77.28
19		Meiji Univ.	112.51	18	40.04	18	72.47
20		Shinyokohama price Club	109.09	19	39.82	22	69.27
21		Tohoku Gakuin Univ	107.18	22	36.88	20	70.30
22		Kansai Univ Skating Club	106.57	23	35.50	19	71.07
23		Waseda Univ	99.33	21	37.50	24	61.83
24		Toyo Univ	98.10	24	33.50	23	64.60
Did not advance to free skating
25		Nihon Univ		25	32.66
26		Nihon Univ		26	32.44
27	Akiko Kitamura	Kansai Univ		27	32.24
28		Nihon Univ		28	31.92
29		Katsuyama FC		29	29.48
WD		Waseda Univ

Ice dancing

Rank	Name	Club	Total points	CD		OD		FD
1		Kawagoe FSC	156.35	1	31.91	1	47.47	1	76.97
2		Shinyokohama prince club Hosei	113.76	2	23.98	3	32.11	2	57.67
3		Kansai Univ Skating Club	113.35	3	22.08	2	35.87	3	55.40

Japan Junior Figure Skating Championships

The 2008–09 Japan Junior Figure Skating Championships were the Japanese National Championships for the Junior level for the 2008–09 season. They took place in Nagoya from November 23 through 24, 2008. The results of this competition were used to choose the Japanese team to the 2009 World Junior Championships.

The following skaters placed high enough at Novice Nationals and so were invited to compete at Junior Nationals: Sei Kawahara (1st in novice, 11th in junior) and Hiroaki Sato (2nd in novice, 27th in junior) for the men; and Miu Sato (1st in novice, 25th in junior), Mao Watanabe (2nd in novice, 30th in junior), Karen Kemanai (3rd in novice, 7th in junior), and Risa Shoji (4th in novice, 29th in junior) for the ladies.

Men

Rank	Name	Total points	SP		FS
1		182.17	4	57.25	1	124.92
2		180.91	1	69.85	3	111.06
3		173.45	2	65.95	4	107.50
4		166.49	5	53.98	2	112.51
5		148.21	3	60.63	12	87.58
6		142.32	11	45.18	5	97.14
7		140.36	6	48.21	7	92.15
8		138.77	10	45.34	6	93.43
9		136.96	7	47.20	9	89.76
10		135.35	9	45.88	10	89.47
11		134.20	12	44.92	11	89.28
12		133.09	15	41.99	8	91.10
13		132.69	8	46.77	13	85.92
14		123.01	13	43.93	16	79.08
15		121.69	18	41.16	15	80.53
16		120.47	23	39.40	14	81.07
17		120.30	16	41.83	17	78.47
18		117.65	19	41.00	18	76.65
19		114.71	17	41.54	20	73.17
20		114.57	21	40.30	19	74.27
21		112.60	20	40.45	21	72.15
22		106.69	14	42.09	23	64.60
23		104.60	22	39.49	22	65.11
24		100.94	24	38.52	24	62.42
Did not advance to free skating
25			25	37.19
26			26	36.59
27			27	36.20
28			28	31.85

Ladies

Rank	Name	Total points	SP		FS
1		144.15	2	53.05	4	91.10
2		144.03	3	51.86	2	92.17
3		143.49	7	48.94	1	94.55
4		142.44	1	56.65	8	85.79
5		141.03	4	51.44	6	89.59
6		135.52	9	46.74	7	88.78
7		133.91	18	42.12	3	91.79
8		133.12	13	43.16	5	89.96
9		131.93	10	46.49	9	85.44
10		126.84	15	43.03	10	83.81
11		124.06	8	47.08	14	76.98
12		122.78	23	39.79	11	82.99
13		119.30	22	40.10	12	79.20
14		119.04	20	42.00	13	77.04
15		117.54	17	42.30	15	75.24
16		116.22	12	43.53	17	72.69
17		116.02	16	42.78	16	73.24
18	Yuka Ishikawa	114.73	11	44.04	18	70.69
19		114.62	6	49.38	23	65.24
20		113.58	5	49.65	24	63.93
21		112.82	14	43.06	19	69.76
22		110.55	21	41.49	20	69.06
23		107.84	19	42.03	21	65.81
24		104.92	24	39.24	22	65.68
Did not advance to free skating
25			25	37.94
26			26	37.32
27			27	36.19
28			28	35.46
29			29	34.30
30			30	34.02

Ice dancing

Rank	Name	Total points	CD		OD		FD
1		121.07	1	26.13	1	37.07	1	57.87
2		106.97	2	24.07	2	32.71	2	50.19

International team selections

Following the Japanese Championships, the team to the 2009 World Championships, 2009 Four Continents Championships, 2009 Winter Universiade were announced as:^[1]

World Championships

	Men	Ladies	Pairs	Ice dancing
1	Nobunari Oda	Mao Asada		Cathy Reed / Chris Reed
2	Takahiko Kozuka	Fumie Suguri
3	Takahito Mura	Miki Ando
1st Alternate	Yasuharu Nanri	Yukari Nakano
2nd Alternate	Daisuke Murakami	Akiko Suzuki

Four Continents Championships

	Men	Ladies	Pairs	Ice dancing
1	Nobunari Oda	Mao Asada		Cathy Reed / Chris Reed
2	Takahiko Kozuka	Fumie Suguri
3	Yasuharu Nanri	Akiko Suzuki
1st Alternate	Takahito Mura	Yukari Nakano
2nd Alternate	Kensuke Nakaniwa	Miki Ando

Winter Universiade

	Men	Ladies	Pairs	Ice dancing
1	Yasuharu Nanri	Yukari Nakano		Emi Hirai / Ayato Yuzawa
2	Tatsuki Machida	Nana Takeda
3	Takemochi Ogami	Ayumi Miyamoto
1st Alternate	Hirokazu Kobayashi	Aki Sawada
2nd Alternate	Tomoyuki Koriyama	Ayako Hagiwara

World Junior Championships

Following the Japanese Junior Championships, the team to the 2009 World Junior Championships was announced as:^[2]

	Men	Ladies	Pairs
1	Yuzuru Hanyu	Haruka Imai	Narumi Takahashi / Mervin Tran
2		Mari Suzuki

External links

• 2008–09 Japan Figure Skating Championships results
• 2008–09 Japan Junior Figure Skating Championships results
• 2008–09 Japan Novice Figure Skating Championships results

Notes and References

1. Web site: 浅田真らが世界選手権代表に . 2008-12-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20081231190034/http://sportsnavi.yahoo.co.jp/winter/skate/figure/text/200812280001-spnavi.html . 2008-12-31 . dead.
2. http://www.sponichi.co.jp/sports/flash/KFullFlash20081124087.html 世界ジュニア　羽生、今井らが代表に