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Miki Ando

Miki Ando
Miki Ando 2009 Worlds.jpg
Personal information
Country represented Japan
Born (1987-12-18) December 18, 1987 (age 29)
Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
Height 1.62 m (5 ft 4 in)
Former coach Valter Rizzo, Yuko Monna, Nikolai Morozov, Carol Heiss Jenkins, Nobuo, Kumiko Sato, Sachiko Kozuka
Choreographer Natalia Bestemianova, Igor Bobrin, Lea Ann Miller
Former choreographer Stéphane Lambiel, Kenji Miyamoto, Noriko Sato, Nikolai Morozov, Patricia Wilcox, David Wilson, Marina Zueva, Kumiko Sato, Yuko Monna
Skating club Toyota SC
Former skating club Prince Hotel
Training locations Nagoya
Milan
Began skating 1995
Retired 2013
ISU personal best scores
Combined total 201.34
2011 Four Continents
Short program 67.98
2007 Worlds
Free skate 134.76
2011 Four Continents
Japanese name
Kanji 安藤 美姫
Kana あんどう みき

Miki Ando (安藤 美姫 Andō Miki?, born December 18, 1987) is a Japanese former figure skater. She is the 2007 and 2011 World champion, 2011 Four Continents champion, 2004 World Junior champion, and a three-time (2004, 2005 & 2011) Japanese national champion.

Ando is the first and only female skater to complete a quadruple jump successfully in competition. She accomplished this at the 2002–03 Junior Grand Prix Final in The Hague.

Ando was born on December 18, 1987 in Nagoya, Japan. Her father died in a traffic accident when she was eight years old. In 2006, Ando joined Toyota and also entered Chukyo University as an adult learner, from which she graduated in March 2011. She learned English during her time training in the U.S. In January 2013, she left Toyota Motor.

Ando gave birth to her daughter in April 2013, Himawari, which means "sunflower" in Japanese.

She briefly dated former coach, Nikolai Morozov, while training under him.

Ando is in a relationship with figure skater Javier Fernandez, whom she met while both were trained by Nikolai Morozov, and started dating in the fall of 2014.


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