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Akiko Suzuki

Akiko Suzuki
2012 WFSC 07d 1077 Akiko Suzuki.JPG
Akiko Suzuki at the 2012 World Championships in Nice, France
Personal information
Country represented  Japan
Born (1985-03-28) March 28, 1985 (age 32)
Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture
Height 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)
Coach Hiroshi Nagakubo, Yoriko Naruse
Former coach Masoko Ogino
Choreographer Pasquale Camerlengo, Massimo Scali
Former choreographer Anjelika Krylova, Kenji Miyamoto, Shae-Lynn Bourne, Yukako Sugita
Skating club Howa Sports Land
Training locations Nagoya
Began skating 1992
Retired 2014
World standing 5 (As of 25 January 2014)
Season's bests 4 (2013–14)
3 (2012–13)
4 (2011–12)
11 (2010–11)
8 (2009–10)
13 (2008–09)
ISU personal best scores
Combined total 199.58
2013 World Team Trophy
Short program 71.02
2014 World Championships
Free skate 133.02
2013 World Team Trophy

Akiko Suzuki (鈴木 明子 Suzuki Akiko?) (born March 28, 1985) is a Japanese former competitive figure skater. She is the 2012 World Championships bronze medalist, a three-time Grand Prix Final medalist (2011 silver, 2009 & 2012 bronze), a two-time Four Continents silver medalist (2010, 2013), the 2007 Winter Universiade champion, and the 2014 Japanese national champion. She finished eighth at the 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympics.

Suzuki was born on March 28, 1985 in Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture. She became engaged to a former classmate in June 2016. They married on February 1, 2017.

Suzuki trained in Nagoya, Japan. At the same time, she worked for Toho Real Estate, which has its own skating rink.

Suzuki won the bronze medal at the 2001–02 Junior Grand Prix Final. After having a successful junior career, Suzuki was hampered by her struggles with anorexia nervosa which began at age 18 when she left home for university. Her weight having fallen to 32 kg, she was unable to jump and missed the entire 2003–04 season. It took her a year to gain back the weight she had lost.


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