2008–09 Japan Figure Skating Championships

2008–09 Japan Figure Skating Championships
Type:	National Championship
Date:	December 25 – 27
Season:	2008–09
Location:	Nagano
Venue:	Big Hat
Champions
Men's singles: Nobunari Oda (S) Yuzuru Hanyu (J)
Ladies' singles: Mao Asada (S) Haruka Imai (J)
Pair skating: Narumi Takahashi / Mervin Tran
Ice dancing: Cathy Reed / Chris Reed (S) Nana Sugiki / Taiyo Mizutani (J)

Previous: 2007–08 Japan Championships
Next: 2009–10 Japan Championships

The 2008–09 Japan Figure Skating Championships were the Japan Figure Skating Championships for the 2008–09 figure skating season. They were the 77th edition of the Japan Figure Skating Championships. 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.

The 2008–09 championships took place between December 25 and 27, 2008 at the Big Hat arena in Nagano.

Competition notes

The following skaters placed high enough at Junior Nationals and so were invited to compete at Senior Nationals: Yuzuru Hanyu (first in juniors), Tatsuki Machida (second in juniors), Daisuke Murakami (third in juniors) and Kento Nakamura (fourth in juniors) for the men; Haruka Imai (first in juniors), Mari Suzuki (second in juniors), Kanako Murakami (third in juniors), and Ayane Nakamura (fourth in juniors) for the ladies; and Nana Sugiki / Taiyo Mizutani (first in juniors) in ice dancing.

Results

Men

Rank	Name	Club	Total points	SP		FS
1	Nobunari Oda	Kansai Univ Skating Club	243.70	1	86.45	1	157.25
2	Takahiko Kozuka	Toyota Motor	225.94	2	77.40	2	148.54
3	Takahito Mura	Kurashiki suisho High School	200.48	3	75.50	4	124.98
4	Yasuharu Nanri	Fukuya Co.	197.69	6	69.15	3	128.54
5	Daisuke Murakami	Aomoriyamada Highschool	187.50	4	71.30	7	116.20
6	Kensuke Nakaniwa	Papio Figure Club	184.18	7	67.80	6	116.38
7	Tatsuki Machida	Kansai Univ Skating Club	183.73	5	70.33	8	113.40
8	Yuzuru Hanyu	Miyagi FSC	181.65	8	64.50	5	117.15
9	Takemochi Ogami	Kurashiki FSC	176.74	9	63.45	9	113.29
10	Hirokazu Kobayashi	Shinyokohama Prince Club	168.68	10	60.70	10	107.98
11	Kento Nakamura	Meijijingu Gaien FSC	159.84	11	59.35	11	100.49
12	Tomoyuki Koriyama	Fukuoka Univ	149.68	15	50.45	12	99.23
13	Hayato Odajima	Hokkaido.Forest.F.S.C	147.55	12	55.43	15	92.12
14	Hirofumi Torii	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	Ryo Shibata	Meiji Univ	141.38	13	53.80	17	87.58
17	Junki Sano	Chukyo Univ	140.66	14	50.56	16	90.10
18	Takumi Suenaga	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	Hayato Miyazaki	Kansai Univ Skating Club	119.94	21	39.43	18	80.51
21	Tatsuya Takei	St.Catherine ISC	112.63	20	43.09	22	69.54
22	Takeru Tiba	Morioka FSC	107.32	24	35.65	21	71.67
23	Tatsuya Ishii	Osakauniv Of Economicsisc	106.71	23	37.21	23	69.50
24	Masato Endo	Toyo Univ	102.66	22	38.12	24	64.54
Did not advance to free skating
25	Hisashi Tahara	Toyo Univ		25	32.32
26	Taketo Omae	Ritsumei Univ.		26	31.32
WD	Kunihito Yuasa	Aichi mizuho Univ

Ladies

Rank	Name	Club	Total points	SP		FS
1	Mao Asada	Chukyo Senior High School	182.45	2	65.30	2	117.15
2	Fumie Suguri	Avex	178.59	5	57.32	1	121.27
3	Miki Ando	Toyota Motor	174.09	3	65.02	4	109.07
4	Akiko Suzuki	Howa sports landSkateclub	173.98	6	57.02	3	116.96
5	Yukari Nakano	Prince Hotel	172.60	1	67.26	6	105.34
6	Nana Takeda	Waseda Univ	164.73	4	57.82	5	106.91
7	Kanako Murakami	Grand Prix Tokai Club	147.83	7	55.74	8	92.09
8	Satsuki Muramoto	Kobe PFSC	146.27	8	53.08	7	93.19
9	Ayane Nakamura	Meito Figure Skating Club	138.07	13	46.64	9	91.43
10	Ayumi Miyamoto	Chukyo Univ	132.79	9	48.72	10	84.07
11	Aki Sawada	Kansai Univ Skating Club	128.95	11	48.36	12	80.59
12	Mari Suzuki	Tohoku Univ	126.40	12	47.58	13	78.82
13	Ayako Hagiwara	Meiji Univ	124.54	17	42.82	11	81.72
14	Haruka Imai	Musashino FSC	121.39	16	43.86	14	77.53
15	Mai Asada	Chukyo Univ	120.77	15	44.50	16	76.27
16	Ayumi Goto	AMC Mizuho High School	118.68	14	45.86	17	72.82
17	Sayaka Yodo	Kwansei Gakuin Univ	118.25	10	48.56	21	69.69
18	Haruka Inoue	Kyoto Nishi High.	115.56	20	38.28	15	77.28
19	Risa Mochizuki	Meiji Univ.	112.51	18	40.04	18	72.47
20	Asani Nagumo	Shinyokohama price Club	109.09	19	39.82	22	69.27
21	Hinako Kikuchi	Tohoku Gakuin Univ	107.18	22	36.88	20	70.30
22	Eri Seto	Kansai Univ Skating Club	106.57	23	35.50	19	71.07
23	Yuko Iwaki	Waseda Univ	99.33	21	37.50	24	61.83
24	Haruka Hasegawa	Toyo Univ	98.10	24	33.50	23	64.60
Did not advance to free skating
25	Kazuha Asami	Nihon Univ		25	32.66
26	Misaki Ohara	Nihon Univ		26	32.44
27	Akiko Kitamura	Kansai Univ		27	32.24
28	Yuko Muraki	Nihon Univ		28	31.92
29	Miyu Yamazaki	Katsuyama FC		29	29.48
WD	Nagisa Hayashi	Waseda Univ

Pairs

Rank	Name	Club	Total points	SP		FS
1	Narumi Takahashi / Mervin Tran		133.29	1	45.94	1	87.35

Ice dancing

Rank	Name	Club	Total points	CD		OD		FD
1	Cathy Reed / Chris Reed	Kawagoe FSC	156.35	1	31.91	1	47.47	1	76.97
2	Nana Sugiki / Taiyo Mizutani	Shinyokohama prince club Hosei	113.76	2	23.98	3	32.11	2	57.67
3	Emi Hirai / Ayato Yuzawa	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 Figure Skating Championships.

The following skaters placed high enough at Novice Nationals and so were invited to compete at Junior Nationals: Sei Kawahara (first in novices, eleventh in juniors) and Hiroaki Sato (second in novices, twenty-seventh in juniors) for the men; and Miu Sato (first in novices, twenty-fifth in juniors), Mao Watanabe (second in novices, thirtieth in juniors), Karen Kemanai (third in novices, seventh in juniors), and Risa Shoji (fourth in novices, twenty-ninth in juniors) for the ladies.

Men

Rank	Name	Total points	SP		FS
1	Yuzuru Hanyu	182.17	4	57.25	1	124.92
2	Tatsuki Machida	180.91	1	69.85	3	111.06
3	Daisuke Murakami	173.45	2	65.95	4	107.50
4	Kento Nakamura	166.49	5	53.98	2	112.51
5	Akio Sasaki	148.21	3	60.63	12	87.58
6	Keiji Tanaka	142.32	11	45.18	5	97.14
7	Yuki Horinouchi	140.36	6	48.21	7	92.15
8	Yukihiro Yoshida	138.77	10	45.34	6	93.43
9	Ryuichi Kihara	136.96	7	47.20	9	89.76
10	Takuya Kondo	135.35	9	45.88	10	89.47
11	Sei Kawahara	134.20	12	44.92	11	89.28
12	Daisuke Isozaki	133.09	15	41.99	8	91.10
13	Yoji Tsuboi	132.69	8	46.77	13	85.92
14	Koshin Yamada	123.01	13	43.93	16	79.08
15	Kaoru Tsuji	121.69	18	41.16	15	80.53
16	Fumiya ITAI	120.47	23	39.40	14	81.07
17	Jun Suzuki	120.30	16	41.83	17	78.47
18	Yuta Onuma	117.65	19	41.00	18	76.65
19	Takaya Hashizume	114.71	17	41.54	20	73.17
20	Satoshi Nakamura	114.57	21	40.30	19	74.27
21	Masataka Nakajima	112.60	20	40.45	21	72.15
22	Hiroki Honda	106.69	14	42.09	23	64.60
23	Hiroki Habu	104.60	22	39.49	22	65.11
24	Kohei Yoshino	100.94	24	38.52	24	62.42
Did not advance to free skating
25	Kousuke Nozoe		25	37.19
26	Ryoichi Eguchi		26	36.59
27	Hiroaki Sato		27	36.20
28	Kentaro Suzuki		28	31.85

Ladies

Rank	Name	Total points	SP		FS
1	Haruka Imai	144.15	2	53.05	4	91.10
2	Mari Suzuki	144.03	3	51.86	2	92.17
3	Kanako Murakami	143.49	7	48.94	1	94.55
4	Ayane Nakamura	142.44	1	56.65	8	85.79
5	Yuki Nishino	141.03	4	51.44	6	89.59
6	Shoko Ishikawa	135.52	9	46.74	7	88.78
7	Karen Kemanai	133.91	18	42.12	3	91.79
8	Yukiko Fujisawa	133.12	13	43.16	5	89.96
9	RoannaSari Oshikawa	131.93	10	46.49	9	85.44
10	Ayaka Hosoda	126.84	15	43.03	10	83.81
11	Shion Kokubun	124.06	8	47.08	14	76.98
12	Kana Muramoto	122.78	23	39.79	11	82.99
13	Juri Ohkawa	119.30	22	40.10	12	79.20
14	Mika Nakamura	119.04	20	42.00	13	77.04
15	Saya Ueno	117.54	17	42.30	15	75.24
16	Mao Nagao	116.22	12	43.53	17	72.69
17	Miho Sasaki	116.02	16	42.78	16	73.24
18	Yuka Ishikawa	114.73	11	44.04	18	70.69
19	Mutsumi Takayama	114.62	6	49.38	23	65.24
20	Nanoha Sato	113.58	5	49.65	24	63.93
21	Kuriko Oikawa	112.82	14	43.06	19	69.76
22	Sayaka Matsubara	110.55	21	41.49	20	69.06
23	Rumi Suizu	107.84	19	42.03	21	65.81
24	Midori Suzuki	104.92	24	39.24	22	65.68
Did not advance to free skating
25	Miu Sato		25	37.94
26	Ayaka Ishii		26	37.32
27	Naomi Tanigawa		27	36.19
28	Kanade Hasegawa		28	35.46
29	Risa Shoji		29	34.30
30	Mao Watanabe		30	34.02

Ice dancing

Rank	Name	Total points	CD		OD		FD
1	Nana Sugiki / Taiyo Mizutani	121.07	1	26.13	1	37.07	1	57.87
2	Kaede Hara / Kokoro Mizutani	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	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	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	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

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