Daisuke Takahashi

Japanese figure skater

Daisuke Takahashi (髙橋 大輔, Takahashi Daisuke, born March 16, 1986) is a Japanese athlete. He is best known as a figure skater.

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In this Japanese name, the family name is Takahashi.

Takahashi was born in Kurashiki, Okayama.[1]

Career

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Takahashi won the Japanese national championships in 2006 and 2007.

Takahashi is the first male skater from Japan to win the World Junior Championships and the first male skater from Japan to win a silver medal at the World Championship.

He was a member of the Japanese team at the 2006 Winter Olympics at Turin in Italy. In 2010, he won a bronze medal in the Winter Olympic Games at Vancouver in Canada.[2]

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References

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  1. "Daisuke TAKAHASHI". Organizing Committee of the XXII Olympic Winter Games. Archived from the original on March 20, 2014.
  2. Sports Reference.com (SR/Olympics), "Daisuke Takahashi" Archived 2011-04-20 at the Wayback Machine; retrieved 2012-7-23.

Other websites

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  Media related to Daisuke Takahashi at Wikimedia Commons