Now he and Muramoto train with Marina Zueva, who coached her and Charlie White, among other ice-dance champions. He had often expressed his admiration for ice dancers, especially the American Olympic and world gold medalist Meryl Davis. To make that change, Takahashi would have to reshape himself, developing the upper-body strength needed for dance lifts and twizzles. The following year he announced that he was switching to ice dance and would skate with Kana Muramoto. He retired from competitive skating in 2014 but announced his return in 2018, winning silver at Japanese Nationals. In 2010 he became the first Japanese man to medal in figure skating at the Olympics, winning bronze in Vancouver the following month he became the first Asian man to win gold at Worlds. (Chris Reed, who announced his retirement the following year, died of sudden cardiac arrest in 2020, aged 30.)ĭaisuke Takahashi, now 37, has been a star in singles skating for 20 years. Chris teamed up with Kana Muramoto, with whom he skated for three seasons in 2018 she announced that the partnership had been dissolved and she was searching for a new partner. Cathy retired from competition after the 2014–15 season to concentrate on coaching and choreography. For almost a decade, ice dance in Japan was dominated by the brother-and-sister team Cathy and Chris Reed (whose sister Allison Reed, now skating with Saulius Ambrulevicius of Lithuania, placed seventh in the discipline on Saturday). That will change with the gold medal Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara just won in Saitama for pairs. Japan has long produced world and Olympic medalists, male and female, in singles figure skating, but its pairs and ice dancers have rarely attracted international attention.
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