2009–10 Japan Figure Skating Championships Explained

2009–10 Japan Figure Skating Championships
Comptype:	National Championship
Startdate:	December 25
Enddate:	27
Skatingseason:	2009–10
Location:	Kadoma, Osaka
Venue:	Namihaya Dome
Championmen:	Daisuke Takahashi (S) Yuzuru Hanyu (J)
Championladies:	Mao Asada (S) Kanako Murakami (J)
Championpairs:	Narumi Takahashi / Mervin Tran
Championdance:	Cathy Reed / Chris Reed (S) Misato Komatsubara / Kokoro Mizutani (J)
Previouscomp:	2008–09 Japan Championships
Nextcomp:	2010–11 Japan Championships

The 2009–10 Japan Figure Skating Championships was the 78th edition of the event. It took place between December 25 and 27, 2009 at the Namihaya Dome arena in Kadoma, Osaka. 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. The event was also used to choose the Japanese teams to the 2010 World Championships and the 2010 Four Continents Championships, as well as being among the competition results used to determine the team to the 2010 Winter Olympics. The Japanese team to the 2010 World Junior Championships was chosen at the Japanese Junior Championships.

Competition notes

The following junior skaters were invited to compete at the senior championships: Yuzuru Hanyu, Kento Nakamura, Ryuju Hino, Fumiya Itai, Keiji Tanaka, and Yoji Tsuboi in men's singles, and Kanako Murakami, Haruka Imai, Yukiko Fujisawa, Kako Tomotaki, and Karen Kemanai in ladies' singles. Shoma Uno, who placed third in junior men, and Satoko Miyahara, who placed fourth in junior ladies, were not invited due to being novice skaters.

Results

Men

Rank	Name	Club	Total points	SP		FS
1		Kansai Univ. Skating Club	261.13	1	92.85	1	168.28
2		Kansai Univ. Skating Club	244.30	3	79.60	2	164.70
3		Toyota Motor	236.13	2	80.54	3	155.59
4		Kansai Univ. Skating Club	215.02	4	75.35	4	139.67
5			201.01	7	68.88	6	132.13
6			195.22	13	57.99	5	137.23
7			188.39	10	61.10	7	127.29
8			187.26	9	65.90	8	121.36
9		Meiji University	179.83	12	59.15	9	120.68
10			177.78	5	74.85	14	102.93
11			176.18	6	69.39	13	106.79
12			169.14	8	68.52	18	100.62
13		Shinyokohama Prince Club	166.65	15	57.08	10	109.57
14	Naoto Saito	Tohoku Fukushi University	162.47	18	54.39	11	108.08
15			161.49	11	60.40	17	101.09
16			158.62	14	57.25	16	101.37
17		Hokkaido.Forest.F.S.C	158.08	21	51.06	12	107.02
18			155.39	16	56.15	19	99.24
19		Aomoriuniversity	154.90	20	52.19	15	102.71
20			143.73	17	55.05	20	88.68
21		Tohoku Fukushi University	137.88	23	49.78	21	88.10
22	Junzo Nishigami	Kansai Univ. Skating Club	137.68	19	52.39	22	85.29
23		Nihon University	131.79	22	50.87	23	80.92
Did not advance to free skating
24				25	48.84
25		Hosei		26	44.82
26				27	44.44
27		Meiji University		28	42.69
28				29	39.85
29		Ritsumei University		30	30.05
WD				24	49.60

Ladies

Rank	Name	Club	Total points	SP		FS
1			204.62	1	69.12	1	135.50
2		Howa Sports Land Skate Club	195.90	4	67.84	2	128.06
3		Prince Hotel	195.73	2	68.90	3	126.83
4		Toyota Motr	185.44	3	68.68	4	116.76
5		Grand Prix Tokai Club	176.61	5	60.28	5	116.33
6		Nihonbashi Jogakan	166.16	7	55.98	6	110.18
7		AK	161.29	6	58.70	9	102.59
8		Amc Mizuho High School	159.15	8	55.96	8	103.19
9		Waseda University	158.81	12	54.54	7	104.27
10			157.88	9	55.82	11	102.06
11		Nihonbashi Jogakan	150.97	19	48.50	10	102.47
12		Chukyo Senior High School	148.42	11	54.60	13	93.82
13		Kansai Univ. Skating Club	144.73	17	50.06	12	94.67
14			141.57	16	51.12	14	90.45
15		Meiji University	138.78	10	54.92	17	83.86
16			138.22	14	53.26	16	84.96
17			137.01	13	53.34	18	83.67
18			136.53	18	49.02	15	87.51
19		Kansai Univ. Skating Club	134.99	15	51.48	19	83.51
20		Chukyo Senior High School	124.91	23	43.60	20	81.31
21			122.24	20	47.04	21	75.20
22	Ayako Hagiwara	Meiji University	120.30	22	45.70	22	74.60
23			117.17	21	46.94	23	70.23
24		Kansai Univ. Skating Club	108.57	24	41.50	24	67.07
Did not advance to free skating
25		Obihiro North Wing FC		25	40.80
26		Meiji University		26	39.54
27				27	37.10
28		Doshisha F.Skating Club		28	37.08
29		Nihon University		29	36.40
30				30	35.80

Ice dancing

Rank	Name	Club	Total points	CD		OD		FD
1		Kinoshita Club Tokyo	163.37	1	31.17	1	49.58	1	82.62
2		Kansai Univ. Skating Club / Hosei	119.49	2	25.01	2	37.67	2	56.81

Japan Junior Figure Skating Championships

The 2009–10 Japan Junior Figure Skating Championships were the Japanese National Championships for the junior level for the 2009–10 season. They were the 78th Japan Junior Championships. They took place at the Shinyokohama Skate Center in Yokohama from November 21 through 23, 2009. The results of this competition were used to choose the Japanese team to the 2010 World Junior Championships.

The following skaters placed high enough at Novice Nationals and so were invited to compete at Junior Nationals: Shoma Uno (1st in novice, 3rd in junior), Shuu Nakamura (2nd in novice, 23rd in junior) for the men; and Ayana Yasuhara (1st in novice, 28th in junior), Risa Shoji (2nd in novice, 10th in junior), Riona Kato (3rd in novice, 7th in junior), and Satoko Miyahara (4th in novice, 4th in junior) for the ladies.

Men

Rank	Name	Club	Total points	SP		FS
1			194.15	1	76.00	2	118.15
2			186.21	2	64.65	1	121.56
3		Grand Prix Tokai Club	148.04	4	52.95	4	95.09
4			147.36	9	51.03	3	96.33
5			143.61	8	51.79	5	91.82
6			141.97	7	52.05	6	89.92
7			141.22	6	52.39	9	88.83
8		Chukyo Senior High School	139.24	3	53.20	13	86.04
9			138.81	10	49.53	7	89.28
10			135.35	12	47.77	11	87.58
11		Tsukisamu FSC	134.88	16	45.84	8	89.04
12			134.71	15	46.26	10	88.45
13		Keio High School	132.09	5	52.91	16	79.18
14		Shumeieikou High School	129.81	11	48.27	14	81.54
15		Kanagawa FSC	127.49	19	40.55	12	86.94
16			127.03	14	46.46	15	80.57
17			121.86	13	46.90	18	74.96
18			119.71	18	42.97	17	76.74
19		Chukyo Senior High School	115.56	17	44.30	21	71.26
20			112.80	22	38.07	19	74.73
21			109.02	23	36.93	20	72.09
22		Orion FSC	107.25	21	39.58	22	67.67
23			105.40	20	40.50	23	64.90
24			97.00	24	35.18	24	61.82
Did not advance to free skating
25				25	34.04
26				26	33.84
27		Osaka Skating Club		27	33.05
28		AMC Mizuho High School		28	32.76

Ladies

Rank	Name	Club	Total points	SP		FS
1		Grand Prix Tokai Club	165.85	1	58.96	1	106.89
2		Nihonbashi Jogakan	143.97	3	49.82	2	94.15
3			135.27	2	51.20	4	84.07
4		Kyoto Daigo FSC	130.99	4	48.32	6	82.67
5			130.58	5	47.00	5	83.58
6		Nihonbashi Jogakan	129.42	14	42.12	3	87.30
7		Kansai Skating Club	124.38	8	45.02	8	79.36
8		Grand Prix Tokai Club	123.76	6	46.50	10	77.26
9		Meito Figure Skating Club	122.93	16	41.72	7	81.21
10			120.89	10	43.46	9	77.43
11			119.65	12	42.80	11	76.85
12			118.99	11	42.96	12	76.03
13			116.41	7	46.12	16	70.29
14			114.27	18	41.28	13	72.99
15		Nihonbashi Jogakan	114.26	13	42.66	15	71.60
16		AomoriGOLD	113.52	15	41.88	14	71.64
17			108.46	9	44.00	20	64.46
18		AomoriGOLD	105.60	23	39.06	18	66.54
19			105.24	24	38.42	17	66.82
20			105.24	21	40.16	19	65.08
21			102.43	20	41.14	21	61.29
22			99.88	19	41.16	22	58.72
23			94.45	22	39.92	23	54.53
24		Tsukisamu FSC	92.27	17	41.30	24	50.97
Did not advance to free skating
25		Hachikodainiko High School		25	38.08
26				26	37.88
27		Osaka Skating Club		27	37.10
28		Shiga Figure Skating Club		28	35.58
29		Hachinohe GOLD F･S･C		29	35.24
WD

Ice dancing

International team selections

Winter Olympics

The Olympic team was announced as follows:

World Championships

The World Championships team was announced as follows:

Four Continents Championships

The Four Continents Championships team was announced as follows:

World Junior Championships

The World Junior Championships team was announced as follows:

External links

• 2009–10 Japan Figure Skating Championships results
• 2009–10 Japan Junior Figure Skating Championships results
• 2009–10 Japan Novice Figure Skating Championships results
• 2009–10 Japan Figure Skating Championships results at the Japan Skating Federation