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Miki ando
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Miki Ando (安藤 美姫 Andō Miki?, intuitive
December 18, 1987) is a Japanese figure skater. She
is the 2007 and 2011 World Champion, 2011 Four Continents Champion, 2004 World Junior Champion, and a three-time
(2004, 2005 & 2010) Japanese National Champion.
Ando is the first and only female skater to whole a quadruple
jump successfully in
competition. She skilled this at the 2002–2003 Junior Grand Prix Final in The Hague.
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Ando was born in Nagoya, Japan in 1987. Her father died when
she was eight years old.[1]In 2006,
Ando joined Toyota and also entered Chukyo University as an adult
learner, from which she graduate in March 2011.[2][3] She learned English during her time guidance in
the U.S.[1] In January 2013, she left Toyota Motor.[4]
Ando began skating in 1996 at the age of eight.[8] She soon turned to Yuko Monna whose students at
that time included Mao Asada and Mai Asada. Beginning
in the 2000–2001 season, she was coached by Nobuo
Satō, and her program already featured a triple
lutz-triple
loop.
In the 2001–2002 season she won the Japan Junior Championships, as well as the Junior Grand Prix Final. She also earned
bronze medals at the Japanese Championships (senior) and at the Junior Worlds.
Ando made history the next season at the 2002-2003 Junior Grand Prix Final, when she landed a quadruple salchow and became the first female skater to land a quadruple
jumpof any kind in a competition. She remains the only lady ever to
perform this feat. That season she watched over her national Junior crown and
took silver at the World Junior Championships.
Ando was prominent in 2003–2004, winning all her junior games
including the Junior Grand Prix Final, her third consecutive
national junior title, and the Junior Worlds. She also won theJapan Championships (senior) and placed 4th at her first senior World Championships.
The 2004–2005 season was her first full season as a senior skater.
She won two medals in the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating series and skilled for the Grand Prix Final, where she placed fourth. She
won her second public senior title and placed sixth at 2005 Worlds.
Ando relocated to the United States to train with Carol
Heiss Jenkins in preparation for the
2005–2006 season which included the 2006
Winter Olympics in Torino. The season
began well, when she won the silver medal at the 2005
Cup of Russia, but she finished 4th at the 2005 NHK Trophy and narrowly qualified for the Grand Prix Final, where she placed 4th. At Japanese Nationals, she placed 6th.
Ando was named to the Japanese Olympic team in accordance with the criteria that were to include two seasons
into consideration. At the Olympics, she placed 15th, after falling three times
in her free skate, once on her quad attempt. She was not placed on the team to
the World Championships the following month.
2006–2007 seasonedit
Ando misrepresented coaches again for the 2006–2007 season.
Training with her new coach,Nikolai Morozov, Ando made a strong showing in the
2006–2007 season, winning the 2006
Skate America and taking silver at the 2006 Trophée Eric Bompard. She qualified for theGrand Prix Final, where she placed 5th. It was
later revealed that Ando, along with the rest of the Japanese team, competed in
Saint Petersburg while suffering stomach flu.
At the Japanese Nationals, Ando dislocated her
shoulder while performing a spin in her free skate but skated on to place
second overall behind Mao Asada.
At the 2007 Worlds, Ando placed second in both the
short program and the free skate, and scored a total of 195.09 points to win
the World Championship by less than one point over Asada. Ando set new personal
bests in both the short program and the free skate, and a new personal best
total score. She was named one of Vogue Japan's "Women of the Year for
2007"[9] and received six other awards including the
"most valuable mention" from the Japanese Olympic Committee.[10][11]
Ando's 2007–2008 season began with a silver medal at the 2007
Skate America but went down to 4th
place finish at the 2007 NHK Trophy,
where she fell three times in her free skate. She did not qualify for the Grand Prix Final.
In the following February, Ando competed for the first time at Four Continents, where she attempted a
quadruple Salchow but popped it to a double. She won the bronze medal. At Worlds, Ando was 8th after the short program
and was forced to withdraw during her free skate due to a leg muscle strain she
had been suffering since that morning.
In the 2008–2009 Grand Prix season, Ando placed third after Kim
Yu-Na and Yukari Nakanoat Skate
America and placed 2nd, behind
Yu-Na, again, at the Cup of China. At the Grand Prix Final, Ando stayed on her foot
after an attempted quadruple salchow in her free skate program, the first time in
competition since 2004, though the rotations were not considered enough and the
jump was downgraded. Despite her last place finish, Ando stated that she was
very happy with her performance, and that she would continue to work on her quad salchow.[12]
At the Japan Championships, she was in 3rd place
after the short program. During the free skate warm-up, she collided with Fumie Suguri, and
injured her knee. She placed 3rd place, and earned one of three spots to
represent Japan at the 2009 World Championships. Before the event,
the Japanese skating federation wanted her to leave Morozov.[1] There, she won the bronze medal with a total of
190.38 after placing fourth in the short program and second in the free
program.
Ando represented Japan in a team competition, 2009 ISU World Team Trophy, in Tokyo, Japan,
where she placed 3rd at the short program, 6th at the free skate and 5th
overall. Team Japan was placed 3rd, winning the bronze medal.
The Japan Skating Federation set, as one of its criteria for
choosing the skaters to send to the 2010 Winter Olympics, the highest Japanese
medal finisher at the Grand Prix Final. With this in mind, Ando
competed at Rostelecom
Cup, where she placed 3rd in the short program and won the free
skate to win the competition overall. At the NHK
Trophy, she placed 2nd in both the short program and the free skate,
which placed her 1st overall. The two wins qualified Ando for the 2009–2010 Grand Prix Final,[13] which was held in Tokyo.
At this GP Final, she scored 66.20 points in the short
program and was placed in 1st at that segment of the competition, 0.56 points
ahead of second place finisher Yu-Na Kim. In the free
skate, she placed in 2nd scoring 119.74 points, and winning the silver medal
overall behind Kim but ahead of the bronze medalist Akiko Suzuki, which
made Ando earn a place to the 2010
Winter Olympics.
At the Japanese Championships, Ando placed 4th
overall. At the 2010 Winter Olympics, the short program took
place on February 23, where Ando executed a triple lutz-triple loop combination, however the triple
loop was downgraded. She
earned levels 3 and 4 on spins. She scored 64.76, ending in fourth in this
segment. In the free skate on 25th, Ando placed sixth with 124.10 points and settled
for fifth overall with 188.86 points. Although she originally intended to miss
the 2010–11 season, she changed her mind following the Olympics.[1]
Ando competed at the 2010 World Championships. She placed eleventh
in the short program with 55.78 points due to a fall in her opening triple
lutz, but came back third in the free skate with 122.04. She earned
177.82 points to finish fourth overall.
Ando was assigned to Cup
of China and the Rostelecom
Cup for the 2010–2011 ISU Grand Prix season. In August, shortly before the beginning
of the season, she changed her training base while abroad from Hackensack, New
Jersey, USA, to Daugavpils, Latvia.[14]She was
originally said to have intended to move to Russia, but this plan had to be
changed due to the smog and heat wave in Moscow.[14]
At Cup of China, Ando
attempted a triple Lutz-triple Loop combination in the short program, but the loop
was deemed underrotated by the Technical Panel and she placed in 3rd in this
segment. She won the free skate segment with a clean performance and won the
event overall, ahead of silver medalist Akiko
Suzuki and bronze medalist Alena Leonova.
Ando competed with a back injury at Rostelecom
Cup after a collision with Abzal Rakimgaliev,
from Kazakhstan,
earlier in the week in practice.[15] An underrotated triple Flip in the short program left her in 5th place after
the short program but she placed first in the long program with 120.47 points,
winning the gold medal ahead of silver medalist Akiko
Suzuki and bronze medalist Ashley Wagner.
With two gold medals in the Grand Prix circuit, Ando qualified for
the Grand Prix Final in Beijing, where she
performed her renewed short program that was completed only a week prior.
Mistakes on two jumps left her to 5th place following the short program, but
she performed a near flawless free skate which earned her 122.70 points for 1st
place in that segment of the competition. However, this was not enough to make
up the gap from the short program, and she stayed 5th with 173.15 points.
On December 26, Ando won her third Japanese National title over silver medalist Mao Asada and bronze
medalist Kanako Murakami, and these three were nominated into the Japanese team
for the World Championships, which at the time were
scheduled to be held in Tokyo in March 2011. At the Four Continents Championships in February, Ando placed first in both the short
program and free skating segments to win the competition overall. Her total
score of 201.34 was a season's and personal best.
Ando won the gold medal at the World Championships in Moscow, Russia,
beating silver medalist Yu-Na Kim by 1.29 points and bronze medalist Carolina Kostner by 11.11 points.[16]
In June, it was reported that Ando would sit out the 2011–2012
Grand Prix series.[17] She later decided not to compete all season, and
in ISU events she appeared only once as an invited skater in the exhibition of
the World Team Trophy. Instead, Ando participated
in numerous shows worldwide, and among them, a benefit event for the victims of
the earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011, called "Reborn Garden",[18] was planned, co-choreographed and co-produced by
Ando herself.[19] The characteristic choreography by Ando and
Tsurutani is to a non-stop sequence of various music assembled into one story
scene, similar to a ballet program.[20][21]
Ando was assigned to the 2012
Cup of China and 2012 Trophee Eric Bompard.[22] In May, Ando said she was uncertain if she was
ready to return to competition but she had to sign a commitment.[23] In October, she withdrew from both events
because she was unable to find a permanent coach.[22] At the end of the same month, Ando learned she
was pregnant. She gave birth in April 2013 and resumed training a month later.[5]
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