Mai Asada (浅田 舞, Asada Mai, born 17 July 1988) is a Japanese former competitive figure skater. She won two gold medals on the ISU Junior Grand Prix series and placed fourth at the 2003 and 2004 World Junior Championships. She made her senior international debut at the 2006 Four Continents Championships, where she placed sixth.
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![]() Mai Asada in 2006 | |
Personal information | |
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Born | (1988-07-17) 17 July 1988 (age 34) Meitō-ku, Nagoya, Japan |
Residence | Nagoya, Japan |
Height | 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) |
Former coach | Takeshi Honda[1] Nadezhda Kanaeva Rafael Arutyunyan Machiko Yamada Higuchi Mihoko |
Former choreographer | Lori Nichol Tatiana Tarasova Nikolai Morozov |
Skating club | Grand Prix Tokai FSC Chukyo University Nagoya |
Training locations | Lake Arrowhead, California Nagoya Kyoto |
Began skating | 1996 |
ISU personal best scores | |
Combined total | 141.65 2006 Four Continents |
Short program | 55.80 2005 Andorra Cup |
Free skate | 89.63 2006 Skate America |
Asada studied ballet before taking up skating at the age of eight or nine.[2] She is the elder sister of Mao Asada,[3] a three-time World champion and the 2010 Olympic silver medalist.
Asada has worked as a model[4] and TV presenter.[5]
Season | Short program | Free skating | Exhibition |
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2007–2008 [3] |
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2003–2004 [2][6] |
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2002–2003 [7] |
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Event | 98–99 | 99–00 | 00–01 | 01–02 | 02–03 | 03–04 | 04–05 | 05–06 | 06–07 | 07–08 | 08–09 |
Four Continents | 6th | ||||||||||
GP Cup of China | 6th | ||||||||||
GP NHK Trophy | WD | ||||||||||
GP Skate America | 6th | 8th | |||||||||
International: Junior[8] | |||||||||||
Junior Worlds | 4th | 4th | |||||||||
JGP Final | 4th | 5th | |||||||||
JGP Andorra | 1st | ||||||||||
JGP Japan | 2nd | 4th | |||||||||
JGP Serbia | 5th | ||||||||||
JGP Slovakia | 1st | ||||||||||
National[8] | |||||||||||
Japan Champ. | 8th | 6th | 8th | 8th | 8th | 12th | 15th | ||||
Japan Junior | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | 7th | |||||||
Japan Novice | 13th B | 7th B | 7th A | 6th A | |||||||
WD = Withdrew |
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