Yuka Nagai

Yuka Nagai
Nagai in December 2014
Personal information
Native name	永井 優香
Country represented	Japan
Born	November 30, 1998 Tokyo, Japan
Height	1.61 m (5 ft 3 ^1⁄2 in)
Coach	Megumu Seki
Choreographer	Shae-Lynn Bourne Kenji Miyamoto
Former choreographer	Megumu Seki
Skating club	Komabagakuen SC
Training locations	Tokyo
Began skating	2006
ISU personal best scores
Combined total	185.93 2016 Bavarian Open
Short program	65.42 2016 Bavarian Open
Free skate	120.51 2016 Bavarian Open

Yuka Nagai (永井 優香 Nagai Yūka, born November 30, 1998) is a Japanese figure skater. She won two silver medals on the ISU Junior Grand Prix series, finished in the top ten at two ISU Championships, and won bronze at the 2014–15 Japan Junior Championships.

Career

Early career

Nagai finished 18th at the 2012 Japanese Junior Championships. Her international debut came at the start of the 2012–13 season, at the 2012 Asian Trophy. She placed 7th at her ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) event in Austria, and 18th at the Japanese Junior Championships.

In 2013–14, Nagai finished 8th at her JGP event in Latvia and 19th at the Japanese Junior Championships.

2014–15 season

During the 2014–15 JGP series, Nagai won silver medals in Ljubljana, Slovenia and Nagoya, Japan.^[1] Her results qualified her for the Junior Grand Prix Final,^[2] held in December 2014 in Barcelona, Spain, where she placed 5th.

Nagai placed 4th at the 2015 Japanese Championships and won the bronze medal at the junior event, finishing behind Wakaba Higuchi and Kaori Sakamoto. She was selected to compete at the 2015 Four Continents where she placed 6th in her senior international debut. She closed her season by finishing 7th at the 2015 World Junior Championships.

2015–16 season

Nagai started her season on the ISU Challenger Series (CS), placing 6th at the 2015 Ondrej Nepela Trophy.

Making her debut on the senior level of the ISU Grand Prix, Nagai won bronze at 2015 Skate Canada International.

Programs

Season	Short program	Free skating	Exhibition
2015–2016 [3][4][5][6]	Madame Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini choreo. by Kenji Miyamoto Piano Concerto No. 3 by Sergei Rachmaninoff choreo. by Kenji Miyamoto	August's Rhapsody (from August Rush) by Mark Mancina choreo. by Shae-Lynn Bourne	Skinny Love performed by Birdy
2014–2015 [7]	East of Eden (1981 miniseries) by Lee Holdridge choreo. by Shae-Lynn Bourne	Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso by Camille Saint-Saëns choreo. by Megumu Seki	Skinny Love performed by Birdy
2013–2014 [8]	Violin Concerto by Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky	Violin Muse by Johann Sebastian Bach
2012–2013 [9]	Liebesträume by Franz Liszt	Polovtsian Dances (from Prince Igor) by Alexander Borodin

Competitive highlights

GP: Grand Prix; JGP: Junior Grand Prix; CS: Challenger Series

International[1]
Event	2011–12	2012–13	2013–14	2014–15	2015–16
Four Continents				6th
GP Rostelecom Cup					8th
GP Skate Canada					3rd
CS Nepela Trophy					6th
Bavarian Open					1st
International: Junior[1]
Junior Worlds				7th
JGP Final				5th
JGP Austria		8th
JGP Japan				2nd
JGP Latvia			8th
JGP Slovenia				2nd
Asian Trophy		3rd J.
National[10]
Japan Champ.				4th	7th
Japan Jr. Champ.	18th	18th	19th	3rd
J. = Junior level; TBD = Entered

Detailed results

2015–16 season
Date	Event	Level	SP	FS	Total
December 24–27, 2015	2015–16 Japan Championships	Senior	7 60.42	6 118.44	7 178.86
November 20–22, 2015	2015 Rostelecom Cup	Senior	9 53.19	6 106.43	8 159.62
Oct. 30 – Nov. 1, 2015	2015 Skate Canada International	Senior	2 63.35	7 109.57	3 172.92
October 1–3, 2015	2015 Ondrej Nepela Trophy	Senior	6 56.74	5 108.43	6 165.17
2014–15 season
Date	Event	Level	SP	FS	Total
March 2–8, 2015	2015 World Junior Championships	Junior	6 56.93	7 107.00	7 163.93
February 9–15, 2015	2015 Four Continents Championships	Senior	7 56.94	8 111.15	6 168.09
December 26–28, 2014	2014–15 Japan Junior Championships	Senior	6 58.00	5 110.55	4 168.55
December 11–14, 2014	2014–15 JGP Final	Junior	3 62.99	5 109.35	5 172.34
November 22–24, 2014	2014–15 Japan Junior Championships	Junior	2 61.49	4 107.25	3 168.74
September 11–14, 2014	2014 JGP Japan	Junior	5 52.95	2 108.70	2 161.65
August 27–30, 2014	2014 JGP Slovenia	Junior	2 58.92	2 105.50	2 164.42
2013–14 season
Date	Event	Level	SP	FS	Total
November 22–24, 2013	2013–14 Japan Junior Championships	Junior	24 40.54	17 85.43	19 125.97
August 28–31, 2013	2013 JGP Latvia	Junior	9 46.87	10 84.81	8 131.68
2012–13 season
Date	Event	Level	SP	FS	Total
November 17–18, 2012	2012–13 Japan Junior Championships	Junior	12 46.72	18 78.35	18 125.07
September 12–15, 2012	2012 JGP Austria	Junior	8 47.66	7 88.14	8 135.80
August 7–12, 2012	2012 Asian Open Trophy	Junior	3 47.84	3 85.06	3 132.90
2011–12 season
Date	Event	Level	SP	FS	Total
November 25–27, 2011	2011–12 Japan Junior Championships	Junior	13 43.86	18 74.22	18 118.08

References

1. "Competition Results: Yuka NAGAI". International Skating Union.
2. "ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2014 / 2015: Junior Ladies". International Skating Union. Retrieved September 14, 2014.
3. "Yuka NAGAI: 2015/2016". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on October 8, 2015.
4. Fantasy on Ice 2015 in Shizuoka (Television production) (in Japanese). Japan: BS Asahi. June 6, 2015.
5. フィギュアスケート [Figure Skate TV!] (in Japanese). Japan. July 12, 2015. BS Fuji.
6. Prince Ice World Tokyo 2015 (Television production) (in Japanese). Japan: BS Japan. July 19, 2015.
7. "Yuka NAGAI: 2014/2015". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on September 14, 2014.
8. "Yuka NAGAI: 2013/2014". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on March 24, 2014.
9. "Yuka NAGAI: 2012/2013". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on October 20, 2012.
10. "永井 優香（ゆうか） / NAGAI Yuka" (in Japanese). Japan Skating Federation. Archived from the original on March 7, 2015.

External links

• Yuka Nagai at the International Skating Union