Who are your favourite skaters?

Hi everybody,

why don't you type who your favourite skaters are, what country they're from, and what discipline they are. Here are mine:

Joannie Rochette-Senior Ladies-Canada

Krya and Dylan Moskivitch-Senior Pairs-Canda

Meagan Duhamel-Senior Ladies-Canada

Jessica Dubé and Bryce Davison-Senior Pairs-Canada

Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Pojé-Senior Dance-Canada

Mao Asada-Senior Ladies-Japan

Yu-Na Kim-Senior Ladies-Republic of Korea

Usually I don't follow the other disciplines as closely as the ladies but anyway these are my current favorites...

Ladies:

apart from Mao...
Elene Gedevanishvili - Georgia
Caroline Zhang - USA
Mirai Nagasu - USA
Yu-Na Kim - Korea


Men:

Daisuke Takahashi - Japan
Tomáš Verner - Czech


Dance:
Marie-France Dubreuil/Patrice Lauzon - Canada

I have a loooot of skaters that I enjoy watching.

Ladies:

Mao Asada - a genius and a genius of hard work. I love her balletic style. ligh jumps, geat flecibility and cute personality. I'm impressed how hard she works on improving her skating, every time I see her she manages to surprise me with something new.

Other favourites: Shizuka Arakawa (especially as a pro), Yukari Nakano, Nana Takeda, Yuki Nishino, Sayaka Matsubara, Mirai Nagasu, Fumie Suguri, and many others.

Men:

Nobunari Oda - he has every quality I've always looked for in a male figure skater and enormous charisma. Another genius of hard work; looking at his jumps and spins now it's difficult to believe that he had great troubles with them right until he won Junior Worlds. Total rockstar!

Other favourites: Jeffrey Buttle, Takahiko Kozuka, Kensuke Nakaniwa, Daisuke Takahashi and many others.


Dance:

Virtue/Moir: I didn't have a favourite dance team since Anissina/Peizerat retired, and I wasn't fond of the direction the discipline was going in - too circus-y for my taste. V/M brought back dance to ice dance, and I love them for that. They have amazing presence on ice and just /really/ dance. I'm always mesmerized while watching them.

Other favourites: Weaver/Poje; they have great potential. Like V/M, they really dance.

Pairs:

I don't have a clear favourite like in other disciplines, but I have a feeling that Pang/Tong might become my favourite pair. I loved the preview of their Romeo/Juliet LP. Their performance at 04 Worlds was great; after that I felt as if they had troubles with accustoming to CoP. Now they seem to finally be getting comfortable with it and showing their full potential again.

Others: Shen/Zhao (have they retired..?)


Those were just eligible (or freshly retired) skaters... From those who retired some time ago I love to watch: Midori Ito, Scott Hamilton (as a pro), Kurt Browning, Torvill/Dean, Anissina/Peizerat, Alexei Yagudin, the Siudeks and many more.

I also have a lot of favourites.

My "favourite favourites", though, are Mao Asada, Nobunari Oda and Virtue/Moir.

I also really enjoy watching novices and juniors. Even if they do not have the refinement and experience of senior skaters, their enthusiasm and "freshness" makes up for it.

i have many favourite skaters

ladies:
Mao Asada, Yukari Nakano, Fumie Suguri

mens:
Brian Joubert, Daisuke Takahashi, Tomas Verner and Alexei Yagudin

Dance:
Isabelle Delobel & Olivier Schoenfelder

pairs:

Margarita Drobiazko & Povilas Vanagas

Well, bearing in mind that one * = 1 light year, the list of my favorite figure skaters would look something like this:

Mao ******* Mai, Nobunari * Daisuke, Yukari, Fumie, Miki, Fleur Maxwell (my first figure skating "love" ) ***** Mirai, Caroline, Pang/Tong * Zhang/Zhang * Lambiel, Weir.
Special Nomination: Dick Button.

I love Kimmie so much!

Men:
Can.: Kurt Browning; Brian Orser; Toller Cranston; Nicholas Young:
Shawn Sawyer; Patrick Chan; Kevin Reynolds; Jeremy Ten;
Billy Maxim Fortin.

Japan: Takeshi Honda; Nobunari Oda; Kensuke Nakaniwa; Ryo Shibato;
Noriyuka Kanzaki; Takahito Kozuka; Takahito Mura; Hideo Umetani;
Utako Nagamitsu; Shouma Uno.

China: Chenjiang Li; Min Zhang; Jialing Wu.

Italy: Karel Zelenka.

France: Jeremy Colot.

Swiss: Jamal Othman.

Australia: Robert McNamara.


Ladies:
Can.: Liz Manley; Amanda Billings; Mira Leung; Mackenzie Pedersen.
Honorable Mention: Lesley Hawker (for her perseverance).

Japan: Midori Ito; Yuka Sato; Fumie Suguri; Shizuka Arakawa;
Mao Asada; Mai Asada; Yukari Nakano; Nana Takeda; Aki Sawada;
Miki Sone; Satsuki Muramoto.

China: Lu Chen; Yan Liu; Binshu Xu.

Korea: Yu-na Kim.

Usa: Kristi Yamaguchi.

Australia: Joanne Carter.

Prs.:
Can.: Annabelle Langois & Cody Hay; Elizabeth Putnam & Sean Wirtz.

China: Xue Shen & Hongbo Zhao; Qing Pang & Jaian Tong;
Dan Zhang & Hao Zhang; Jiaqi Li & Jiankun Xu.

Russia: Yuko Kawaguchi & Alexander Smirnov.

Dance:
Can.: Tessa Virtue & Scott Moir.

Japan: Cathy & Chris Reed.

China: Xintong Huang & Xun Zheng; Xiaoyang Yu & Wang Chen;
Lu Liu & Bin Suo.

Usa: Meryl Davis & Charlie White.

Honourable Mention:
Jingu Ice Messengers (Japan's Synchronize Team)

***Note: I know I like many skaters from the past but I have limited this list to those skating now & those who are the future.

My favourite skaters are~

Men
Evgeni Plushenko (RUS)
Jeffrey Buttle (CAN)

Ladies
Mao Asada (JPN)
Alissa Czisny (USA)
Mirai Nagasu (USA)
Caroline Zhang (USA)
Sasha Cohen (USA)
Angela Maxwell (USA)
Carolina Kostner (ITA)
Kim Yu-Na (KOR)

I recently fell in love with Akiko Suzuki so she may soon end up on that list above too

I don't watch any pairs or ice dancing, so no faves here. :p

my favorite skaters are:

ladies:
1.Mao Asada(simply the best )
2.Yu-Na Kim
3.Miki Ando
4.Sarah Meier
5.Karolina Kostner

men:
-Stephane Lambiel
-Evgeni Plushenko
-Brian Joubert

Here my List

Active
Mao Asada (Number 1!!)
Yu Na Kim
Carolina Kostner
Miki Ando
Kimmie Meissner
Laura Lepisto
Anette Dytrt
Tugba Karademir

Retired
Katharina Witt

Pairs
Alona Savshenko, Robin Szolkowy
Jessica Dube Bryce Davison

For the ladies,
-Shizuka Arakawa
-Miki Ando
-Michelle Kwan
-Yu- Na Kim
-Mao is a given of course

And for the men,
-Daisuke Takahashi: so funky and sexy
-Ilia Kulik

Japan IS the future of figure skating

hey guys!

here are my fav's:

Mao (duuh)
Miki Ando
Yukari Nakano
Yu-na Kim
Stephane Lambiel
Daisuke Takahashi
Brian Joubert
Alexei Yagudin

Ladies:
Mao( )
Sasha Cohen
Irina Slutskaya
Michelle Kwan
Caroline Zhang
Mirai Nagasu

Men:
Evgeni Plushenko love him!
Daisuke Takahashi

Pairs:
Berezhnaya and Sikharulidze
Savchenko and Szolkowy

Dance:
Grishuk and Platov
Domnina and Shabalin
Dubreuil and Lauzon
Belbin and Agosto

1. Mao Asada (who has recently overtaken Sasha in the standingss )
2. Sasha Cohen
3. Yu-Na Kim
4. Miki Ando
5. Mirai Nagasu

Men
1. Stephane Lambiel
2. Johnny Weir
3. Evan Lysacek

I don't watch Dance or pairs. I usually only watch the girls

Michelle Kwan (US)
Yuna Kim (KOREA)
Yukina Ota *retired* (JAPAN)
Fumie Suguri (JAPAN)
Yukari Nakano (JAPAN)
Kanako Murakami (JAPAN)
Mirai Nagasu (US)
Caroline Zhang (US)
Alissa Czisny (US)
Sasha Cohen (US)
Elene Gedevanishvili (Georgia)
Laura Lepisto (FINLAND)
Susanna Poykio (FINLAND)
Angela Maxwell (US)

Maxgato wrote:

Michelle Kwan (US)
Yuna Kim (KOREA)
Yukina Ota *retired* (JAPAN)
Fumie Suguri (JAPAN)
Yukari Nakano (JAPAN)
Kanako Murakami (JAPAN)
Mirai Nagasu (US)
Caroline Zhang (US)
Alissa Czisny (US)
Sasha Cohen (US)
Elene Gedevanishvili (Georgia)
Laura Lepisto (FINLAND)
Susanna Poykio (FINLAND)
Angela Maxwell (US)

And Mao ??

MAO ASADA

Yu-Na Kim
Daisuke Takahashi
Shizuka Arakawa

Ladies
KOR: Yu-Na Kim (I'm sorry, she's my #1 out of national bias! I'm ethnically Korean and was born in Canada...too many ties to try to hide my favouritism )
JPN: Mao Asada (in certain ways undeniably better than Yu-Na; a rare talent and sweet girl)

Other mentionables:
USA: Caroline Zhang (a beautiful, precise style and a joy to watch)
USA: Kristi Yamaguchi (one of my earliest skating idols, I think she drew me into watching the sport in the first place
FRA: Surya Bonaly (amazing story, full of pluck, and I believe it was prejudice which robbed her of at least one World title...so, courageous as well)
USA: Sasha Cohen (gorgeous spirals and spins, lots of flair)
JPN: Midori Ito (to this day, still the queen of jumps. Wonder how she would have dominated if she competed under the new scoring system.)

Men
RUS: Alexei Yagudin
RUS: Evgeni Plushenko

These two Russians are my absolute favourite men.

Other mentionables:
CAN: Patrick Chan
CAN: Jeff Buttle
CAN: Emanuel Sandhu
CAN: Brian Orser (not the least for being Yu-Na's coach )
USA: Johnny Weir

prettykeys wrote:

JPN: Midori Ito (to this day, still the queen of jumps. Wonder how she would have dominated if she competed under the new scoring system.)

I'd rather wonder how she (as well as other big stars of the past) would have looked under the current level of pressure, all top skaters compete under these days. Especially the level of pressure Mao skates under. Or Kim with Miki. It's highly possible, some of those antique skating heroes wouldn't be anywhere close to the places they were occupying during their 'romantic' days. -P

Mao Asada-Japan-Ladies
Yu-Na Kim-South Korea-Ladies
Daisuke Takahashi-Japan-Men
Caroline Zhang-USA-Ladies
Mirai Nagasu-USA-Ladies
Angela Maxwell-USA-Ladies
Shizuka Arakawa-Japan-Ladies
Emily Samuelson and Evan Bates-USA-Ice Dancing
Tanith Belbin and Benjamin Agosto-USA
Meryl Davis and Charlie White-USA

Ladies
Miki Ando - Japan
Mao Asada - Japan
Yu-Na Kim - South Korea
Yukari Nakano - Japan
Fumie Suguri - Japan
Carolina Kostner - Italy
Joannie Rochette - Canada
Caroline Zhang - United States of America
Shizuka Arakawa - Japan
Laura Lepistö - Finland
Ashley Wagner - United States of America

Men
Daisuke Takahashi - Japan
Nobunari Oda - Japan
Takahiko Kozuka - Japan
Brian Joubert - France
Patrick Chan - Canada
Denis Ten - Kazakhstan
Stéphane Lambiel - Switzerland
Johnny Weir - United States of America

Pairs
Zhang/Zhang - China
Savchenko/Szolkowy - Germany
Shen/Zhao - China
Pang/Tong - China
Volosozhar/Morozov - Ukraine

Ice Dance
Faiella/Scali - Italy
Delobel/Schoenfelder - France
Belbin/Agosto - United States of America
Virtue/Moir - Canada
Davis/White - United States of America
Kerr/Kerr - United Kingdom

Men

Evgeni Plushenko [RUS]
Johnny Weir [USA]
Nobunari Oda [JPN]
Daisuke Takahashi [JPN]
Alexi Yagudin [RUS]

Ladies

Mao Asada [JPN] ♥
Shizuka Arakawa [JPN]
Yu-Na Kim [KOR]
Michelle Kwan [USA]
Kristi Yamaguchi [USA]

Dance

Maia Shibutani/ Alex Shibutani [USA]
Meryl Davis/ Charlie White [USA]
Tanith Belbin/ Ben Agosto [USA]

Pairs

Xue Shen/ Hongbo Zhao [CHN]
Aliona Savchenko/ Robin Szolkowy [RUS]

Ladies
Mao Asada
Mirai Nagasu
Alexe Gilles
Angela Maxwell (backflip)
Polina Shelepen (Rising Star from Russia)
Rylie McCullough-Casara (CDN Jr. Bronze Medallist)

Men
Evan Lysacek
Brandon Mroz
Ryan Bradley (backflip )

Pairs

Denney&Barrett
Takahashi and Tran (Go for gold at Jr. Worlds 2010)
Tanovich & Chau (Can't do JGP until 2010/2011 )

Dance
Belbin and Agosto
Chock & Zuerlein
Shibutanis