- Yoshie Onda
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Yoshie Onda Personal information Country represented Japan Born December 13, 1982 Residence Toronto, Canada Height 157 cm Coach Josée Chouinard Skating club Tokai Gakuen University SC Retired 2007 ISU personal best scores Combined total 166.80
2005 Four CCShort program 58.02
2005 Four CCFree skate 108.78
2005 Four CCMedal recordCompetitor for Japan Ladies' Figure skating Four Continents Championships Silver 2005 Gangneung Ladies' Singles Bronze 2002 Jeonju Ladies' Singles Bronze 2001 Salt Lake City Ladies' Singles Yoshie Onda (恩田 美栄 Onda Yoshie , born December 13, 1982 in Nagoya, Japan) is a Japanese figure skater. She is the 2005 Four Continents silver medalist and 2001-2002 bronze medalist.
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Career
Onda started skating when she turned nine years old.
Onda became the first Japanese female figure skater to win a Grand Prix series title, when she won the Bofrost Cup on Ice in Gelsenkirchen, Germany in 2002. She won the NHK Trophy that same season. Throughout her career, Onda attempted to land a triple axel in her programs, but never did so successfully.[citation needed]
Onda retired from competitive figure skating at the end of the 2006-2007 season. She had hoped to end her career by skating in the 2007 World Figure Skating Championships one last time, but failed to qualify for it in the Japanese Nationals. During her competitive career, her coaches were Josée Chouinard, Audrey Weisiger and Machiko Yamada.
After she retired, she stated that her future plans included skating in professional ice shows, and possibly exploring a career in sports medicine.[1]
She currently coaches at the Morikoro Park Ice Rink in Nagakute.[2]
Results
Event 1997-98 1998-99 1999-00 2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 Winter Olympics 17th World Championships 12th 5th 11th 11th Four Continents Championships 5th 3rd 3rd 8th 2nd 6th World Junior Championships WD 17th Japanese Championships 4th 3rd 2nd 4th 7th 4th 5th Japanese Junior Championships 2nd 2nd 4th Grand Prix Final 5th WD 5th 5th Skate America 3rd Skate Canada International 2nd 7th Bofrost Cup on Ice 2nd 1st Cup of China 2nd Trophée Lalique 2nd Cup of Russia 7th 3rd 3rd NHK Trophy 8th 2nd 1st 3rd 4th Winter Universiade 1st - WD = Withdrew
References
- ^ "Onda reveals retirement plans", The Japan Times (The Japan Times Online), 2007-04-01, http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/sp20070401a7.html
- ^ "Yoshi Onda Teaches Skating", Mainchi Newspapers (Mainchi Newspapers Online), April 2009, http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fmainichi.jp%2Farea%2Faichi%2Fmugendai%2Fnews%2F20090329ddlk23070182000c.html&sl=ja&tl=en&history_state0=
External links
- yoshieonda.com - Fan Page
- Yoshie Onda at the International Skating Union
Categories:- 1982 births
- Living people
- Japanese female single skaters
- Figure skaters at the 2002 Winter Olympics
- Olympic figure skaters of Japan
- People from Nagoya
- Japanese figure skating biography stubs
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