The 2004–05 Japan Figure Skating Championships was the 73rd edition of the event. They were held from December 24 through 26, 2004 at the Shinyokohama Stake Center in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture. Skaters competed on the senior level in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. The competition was used to decide Japan's entries to the 2005 World Championships and the 2005 Four Continents Championships. The entries to the 2005 World Junior Championships were decided at the Japanese Junior Championships.
Competition notes
- The following skaters placed high enough at Junior Nationals and so were invited to compete at Nationals: Nobunari Oda (first in junior, third in senior), Kazumi Kishimoto (second in junior, fifth in senior), Yasuharu Nanri (third in junior, eighth in senior), and Takahiko Kozuka (fourth in junior, fourth in senior) in men, and Mao Asada (first in junior, second in senior), Mai Asada (second in junior, eighth in senior), Aki Sawada (third in junior, fourth in senior), and Akiko Kitamura (fourth in junior, fifth in senior) in ladies.
- Silver medalist Mao Asada was not old enough to be sent to the World or the Four Continents Championships.
Results
Men
Rank | Name | Total points | SP | FS | ||
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1 | Takeshi Honda | 199.86 | 2 | 70.50 | 1 | 129.36 |
2 | Kensuke Nakaniwa | 191.39 | 3 | 63.89 | 2 | 127.50 |
3 | Nobunari Oda | 185.64 | 4 | 60.81 | 3 | 124.83 |
4 | Takahiko Kozuka | 182.69 | 1 | 71.46 | 6 | 111.23 |
5 | Kazumi Kishimoto | 174.96 | 7 | 53.99 | 4 | 120.97 |
6 | Daisuke Takahashi | 173.67 | 5 | 59.83 | 5 | 113.84 |
7 | Noriyuki Kanzaki | 162.54 | 9 | 53.55 | 7 | 108.99 |
8 | Yasuharu Nanri | 160.88 | 6 | 58.18 | 8 | 102.70 |
9 | Hirokazu Kobayashi | 156.12 | 8 | 53.74 | 9 | 102.38 |
10 | Shinya Yoshida | 148.72 | 10 | 51.57 | 10 | 97.15 |
11 | Takushi Kuroda | 146.71 | 11 | 51.18 | 13 | 95.53 |
12 | Naofumi Torii | 141.94 | 18 | 45.62 | 12 | 96.32 |
13 | Makoto Nakata | 140.71 | 12 | 49.37 | 16 | 91.34 |
14 | Takao Ogawa | 139.04 | 21 | 42.45 | 11 | 96.59 |
15 | Ken Tanabe | 137.76 | 17 | 45.65 | 14 | 92.11 |
16 | Hideo Umetani | 137.50 | 16 | 46.10 | 15 | 91.40 |
17 | Takeshi Ushigome | 127.93 | 14 | 46.53 | 18 | 81.40 |
18 | Jun Ishigaki | 127.53 | 24 | 37.29 | 17 | 90.24 |
19 | Yusuke Nakagawa | 126.91 | 15 | 46.50 | 19 | 80.41 |
20 | Syunpei Watanabe | 125.15 | 13 | 47.02 | 20 | 78.13 |
21 | Atsushi Usuda | 120.57 | 19 | 44.78 | 22 | 75.79 |
22 | Suguru Nakai | 117.86 | 22 | 41.98 | 21 | 75.88 |
23 | Taku Tamura | 115.12 | 20 | 43.93 | 24 | 71.19 |
24 | Toru Kimura | 114.04 | 23 | 39.84 | 23 | 74.20 |
Did not advance to free skating | ||||||
25 | Yuichi Fukui | 25 | 34.04 | |||
26 | Koji Nakaniwa | 26 | 32.86 | |||
27 | Kengo Shibata | 27 | 30.40 | |||
28 | Hidenori Kambayashi | 28 | 30.28 | |||
29 | Kazunari Aoki | 29 | 28.05 | |||
WD | Ryo Shibata |
Ladies
Rank | Name | Total points | SP | FS | ||
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1 | Miki Ando | 172.47 | 3 | 63.23 | 1 | 109.24 |
2 | Mao Asada | 166.82 | 4 | 60.46 | 2 | 106.36 |
3 | Fumie Suguri | 166.54 | 2 | 65.18 | 3 | 101.36 |
4 | Aki Sawada | 154.73 | 6 | 55.01 | 5 | 99.72 |
5 | Akiko Kitamura | 147.54 | 9 | 47.40 | 4 | 100.14 |
6 | Yukari Nakano | 147.48 | 7 | 49.08 | 6 | 98.40 |
7 | Yoshie Onda | 145.87 | 5 | 58.28 | 8 | 87.59 |
8 | Mai Asada | 136.77 | 8 | 48.17 | 7 | 88.60 |
9 | Chika Suguri | 126.85 | 11 | 44.50 | 9 | 82.35 |
10 | Ayumi Miyamoto | 118.44 | 10 | 44.61 | 12 | 73.83 |
11 | Ami Kobayashi | 117.08 | 12 | 42.94 | 11 | 74.14 |
12 | Akiko Suzuki | 113.86 | 13 | 42.02 | 13 | 71.84 |
13 | Yuki Umetani | 112.37 | 20 | 34.94 | 10 | 77.43 |
14 | Haruka Miki | 103.64 | 16 | 39.38 | 15 | 64.26 |
15 | Hiroe Kakisawa | 103.46 | 15 | 40.18 | 16 | 63.28 |
16 | Chisato Shiina | 99.90 | 14 | 41.51 | 18 | 58.39 |
17 | Miki Sone | 99.87 | 22 | 32.74 | 14 | 67.13 |
18 | Kana Kibesaki | 99.77 | 18 | 38.04 | 17 | 61.73 |
19 | Chihoko Tanaka | 96.34 | 17 | 38.34 | 19 | 58.00 |
20 | Sayaka Ishida | 93.11 | 19 | 35.43 | 20 | 57.68 |
21 | Emiko Kato | 87.80 | 23 | 31.28 | 21 | 56.52 |
22 | Nagisa Suwabe | 85.45 | 21 | 32.79 | 23 | 52.66 |
23 | Sachiyo Imaichi | 83.43 | 24 | 28.42 | 22 | 55.01 |
WD | Shizuka Arakawa | 1 | 67.68 | |||
Did not advance to free skating | ||||||
25 | Ayako Kaneishi | 25 | 27.98 | |||
26 | Kayoko Tsuji | 26 | 27.76 | |||
27 | Yuri Takehisa | 27 | 27.55 | |||
28 | Haruka Oshima | 28 | 27.14 | |||
29 | Fumi Hasebe | 29 | 26.81 | |||
30 | Aya Sumida | 30 | 26.67 | |||
31 | Takako Kimura | 31 | 26.22 | |||
WD | Yukina Ota |
Pairs
Rank | Name | Total points | SP | FS | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Yuko Kawaguchi / Devin Patrick | 126.38 | 1 | 45.95 | 1 | 80.43 |
Ice dancing
Rank | Name | Total points | CD | OD | FD | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Nozomi Watanabe / Akiyuki Kido | 165.03 | 1 | 32.49 | 1 | 49.07 | 1 | 83.47 |
2 | Nakako Tsuzuki / Kenji Miyamoto | 147.91 | 2 | 28.85 | 2 | 42.66 | 2 | 76.40 |
3 | Minami Sakacho / Tatsuya Sakacho | 115.97 | 3 | 24.04 | 3 | 32.16 | 3 | 59.77 |
4 | Ikuko Chida / Toru Shibata | 98.27 | 4 | 19.79 | 4 | 29.51 | 4 | 48.97 |
Japan Junior Figure Skating Championships
The 2004–05 Japan Junior Figure Skating Championships took place between November 20 and 21, 2004 at the Osaka Pool arena in Osaka.
Men
Rank | Name | Total points | SP | FS | ||
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1 | Nobunari Oda | 180.75 | 4 | 57.53 | 1 | 123.22 |
2 | Kazumi Kishimoto | 171.30 | 2 | 59.49 | 2 | 111.81 |
3 | Yasuharu Nanri | 171.21 | 1 | 62.25 | 4 | 108.96 |
4 | Takahiko Kozuka | 169.11 | 3 | 58.50 | 3 | 110.61 |
5 | Takemochi Ogami | 158.81 | 7 | 50.01 | 5 | 108.80 |
6 | Ryo Shibata | 155.79 | 5 | 54.67 | 7 | 101.12 |
7 | Tatsuki Machida | 150.67 | 8 | 49.82 | 8 | 100.85 |
8 | Kosuke Morinaga | 150.05 | 9 | 47.61 | 6 | 102.44 |
9 | Naoto Saito | 149.81 | 6 | 51.18 | 9 | 98.63 |
10 | Tadayoshi Maekawa | 131.49 | 10 | 45.04 | 12 | 86.45 |
11 | Hirofumi Torii | 131.48 | 17 | 40.50 | 10 | 90.98 |
12 | Takahito Mura | 129.72 | 12 | 43.14 | 11 | 86.58 |
13 | Hayato Odajima | 123.56 | 11 | 44.39 | 13 | 79.17 |
14 | Kunihito Yuasa | 119.83 | 14 | 42.47 | 14 | 77.36 |
15 | Yukihiro Yoshida | 115.68 | 15 | 41.98 | 16 | 73.70 |
16 | Hikaru Sato | 111.66 | 19 | 36.79 | 15 | 74.87 |
17 | Tomoyuki Koriyama | 110.64 | 16 | 40.53 | 18 | 70.11 |
18 | Takumi Suenaga | 109.85 | 13 | 42.73 | 21 | 67.12 |
19 | Takuya Kondo | 108.52 | 18 | 37.08 | 17 | 71.44 |
20 | Junzo Nishigami | 104.78 | 20 | 36.70 | 19 | 68.08 |
21 | Takuya Tamura | 101.96 | 21 | 34.06 | 20 | 67.90 |
22 | Takeru Chiba | 94.95 | 22 | 31.73 | 23 | 63.22 |
23 | Akio Sasaki | 94.75 | 23 | 31.41 | 22 | 63.34 |
24 | Kozuke Nozoe | 90.44 | 24 | 31.07 | 24 | 59.37 |
Did not advance to free skating | ||||||
25 | Yuya Ishiyama | 25 | 30.57 | |||
26 | Taketo Omae | 26 | 29.42 | |||
27 | Kento Nakamura | 27 | 28.92 | |||
28 | Ryuichi Kihara | 28 | 27.94 | |||
WD | Tatsuya Kitagaki | |||||
WD | Atsuki Kunisawa |
Ladies
Rank | Name | Total points | SP | FS | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Mao Asada | 172.13 | 1 | 54.56 | 1 | 117.57 |
2 | Mai Asada | 147.50 | 2 | 52.19 | 3 | 95.31 |
3 | Aki Sawada | 145.96 | 3 | 48.79 | 2 | 97.17 |
4 | Akiko Kitamura | 138.90 | 4 | 44.82 | 4 | 94.08 |
5 | Momo Makino | 122.40 | 14 | 35.85 | 5 | 86.55 |
6 | Rumi Suizu | 121.43 | 7 | 42.03 | 7 | 79.40 |
7 | Nana Takeda | 119.97 | 13 | 37.37 | 6 | 82.60 |
8 | Ayako Hagiwara | 119.44 | 5 | 42.50 | 8 | 76.94 |
9 | Mutsumi Takayama | 118.15 | 6 | 42.10 | 9 | 76.05 |
10 | Yuka Ishikawa | 108.82 | 18 | 35.01 | 10 | 73.81 |
11 | Satsuki Muramoto | 106.82 | 10 | 40.25 | 11 | 66.57 |
12 | Emi Hirai | 104.81 | 11 | 38.81 | 14 | 66.00 |
13 | Miri Yoshida | 104.42 | 12 | 38.03 | 12 | 66.39 |
14 | Haruka Inoue | 102.71 | 9 | 40.41 | 17 | 62.30 |
15 | Nanoha Sato | 101.64 | 15 | 35.64 | 13 | 66.00 |
16 | Risa Mochizuki | 100.02 | 8 | 41.13 | 18 | 58.89 |
17 | Shiho Sato | 96.93 | 19 | 34.05 | 15 | 62.88 |
18 | Mari Suzuki | 94.19 | 24 | 31.48 | 16 | 62.71 |
19 | Eri Ishigami | 93.49 | 16 | 35.31 | 19 | 58.18 |
20 | Sayaka Yodo | 91.89 | 17 | 35.12 | 21 | 56.77 |
21 | Hinako Kikuchi | 90.82 | 21 | 33.45 | 20 | 57.37 |
22 | Shoko Ishikawa | 87.35 | 23 | 32.64 | 22 | 54.71 |
23 | Rina Kasama | 82.91 | 20 | 34.05 | 23 | 48.86 |
24 | Asako Yodo | 78.36 | 22 | 33.08 | 24 | 45.28 |
Did not advance to free skating | ||||||
25 | Yuko Iwaki | 25 | 31.32 | |||
26 | Midori Suzuki | 26 | 30.87 | |||
27 | Asato Nakanishi | 27 | 29.55 | |||
28 | Nagisa Hayashi | 28 | 29.48 | |||
29 | Misaki Ohara | 29 | 28.44 |
Ice dancing
Rank | Name | Total points | CD | OD | FD | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Rina Sawayama / Taiyo Mizutani | 107.59 | 1 | 26.12 | 1 | 33.56 | 1 | 47.91 |
2 | Miki Nakamura / Takahiko Tanba | 88.56 | 2 | 21.01 | 2 | 26.77 | 2 | 40.78 |
International team selections
World Championships
Following the national championships, Honda, Arakawa, and Ando were assigned to the World team. All other places were filled following the 2005 Four Continents Championships, with the highest placing Japanese skater earning the available Worlds spot.
Men | Ladies | Ice dancing | |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Takeshi Honda | Shizuka Arakawa | Nozomi Watanabe / Akiyuki Kido |
2 | Daisuke Takahashi | Miki Ando | |
3 | Fumie Suguri |
Four Continents Championships
Men | Ladies | Ice dancing | |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Kensuke Nakaniwa | Yoshie Onda | Nozomi Watanabe / Akiyuki Kido |
2 | Daisuke Takahashi | Fumie Suguri | Nakako Tsuzuki / Kenji Miyamoto |
3 | Kazumi Kishimoto | ||
1st Alternate | Takahiko Kozuka | Yukari Nakano (added) | |
2nd Alternate | Ryo Shibata | Mai Asada | |
3rd Alternate | Noriyuki Kanzaki |
External links
- 2004–05 Japan Figure Skating Championships results (in Japanese)
- 2004–05 Japan Junior Figure Skating Championships results (in Japanese)