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Akiko Suzuki at the 2012 World Championships in Nice, France
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Country represented | Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born |
Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture |
March 28, 1985 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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[update]) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Season's bests |
4 (2013–14) 3 (2012–13) 4 (2011–12) 11 (2010–11) 8 (2009–10) 13 (2008–09) |
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Combined total | 199.58 2013 World Team Trophy |
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Short program | 71.02 2014 World Championships |
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Free skate | 133.02 2013 World Team Trophy |
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Medal record
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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.