Daisuke Murakami (figure skater)
Daisuke "Dice" Murakami (村上 大介, Murakami Daisuke, born January 15, 1991, in Kanagawa) is a Japanese figure skater.
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Daisuke Murakami at 2015 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final | |
| Born | January 15, 1991 Kanagawa, Japan |
| Height | 165 cm (5 ft 5 in) |
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| Country | Japan |
| Coach | Frank Carroll Kumiko Sato |
| Skating club | Aomori FSC |
| Began skating | 2000 |
| Retired | June 14, 2018 |
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| Kanji | 村上 大介 | ||||
| Kana | むらかみ だいすけ | ||||
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He is the 2014 NHK Trophy champion, 2011 Ondrej Nepela Memorial champion, and 2009 Japan Junior bronze medalist.
Earlier in his career, he represented the United States, winning a bronze medal on the ISU Junior Grand Prix series and the 2006 U.S. junior national pewter medal.
In 2011, Murakami became the first to land the quad salchow jump in the men's category at the Japan Championships.
Murakami has appeared in variety of TV show's in Japan collaborating with Yoshiki Hayashi from X Japan and Kenta Maeda from Los Angeles Dodgers
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