Daisuke Takahashi

Daisuke Takahashi (高橋 大輔, Takahashi Daisuke, born March 16, 1986) is a retired Japanese figure skater (men's singles and ice dance) and ice show producer. As a singles skater, he is the 2010 Olympic bronze medalist, the 2010 World champion, the 2012–13 Grand Prix Final champion, a two-time (2008, 2011) Four Continents champion, and a five-time (2006-2008, 2010, 2012) Japanese national champion.

Daisuke Takahashi
高橋 大輔
Takahashi at the 2010 Skate America
Born (1986-03-16) March 16, 1986
Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan
Alma materKansai University (2015)
Occupations
Height165 cm (5 ft 5 in)
Figure skating career
Country Japan
Discipline
  • Ice dance (2020–2023)
  • Men's singles (until 2019)
PartnerKana Muramoto
Coach
Skating clubKansai Univ. Kaisers FSC
Began skating1994
Competitive1997–2014, 2018–2023
Professional2014–2018, 2023–present
Retired2023
Highest WS
Medal record
Four Continents Championships
2022 Tallinn Ice dance
Event
Olympic Games 0 0 1
World Championships 1 2 0
Four Continents Championships 2 1 1
Grand Prix Final 1 3 1
World Team Trophy 1 0 2
World Junior Championships 1 0 0
Medal list
Olympic Games
2010 Vancouver Singles
World Championships
2010 Turin Singles
2007 Tokyo Singles
2012 Nice Singles
Four Continents Championships
2008 Goyang Singles
2011 Taipei Singles
2012 Colorado Springs Singles
2005 Gangneung Singles
Grand Prix Final
2012–13 Sochi Singles
2006–07 Saint Petersburg Singles
2007–08 Turin Singles
2011–12 Quebec Singles
2005–06 Tokyo Singles
World Team Trophy
2012 Tokyo Team
2013 Tokyo Team
2023 Tokyo Team
World Junior Championships
2002 Hamar Singles

Takahashi represented Japan at the 2006 Winter Olympics, 2010 Winter Olympics, and 2014 Winter Olympics. His bronze medal at the 2010 Winter Olympics was the first Olympic medal for Japan in the men's singles event. He was also the first Asian man to win a World title at the 2010 World Championships. At the 2012–13 Grand Prix Final, Takahashi made history again as the first Japanese man to win a gold medal in the event, an addition to his previous accomplishment of being the first Japanese man to medal at the event in 2005.

Takahashi retired on October 14, 2014, but returned to competitive skating on July 1, 2018. After two seasons competing domestically in Japan, Takahashi began a career in ice dance partnered with Kana Muramoto beginning in the 2020–21 season. With Muramoto he is the 2022 Four Continents silver medalist, the 2022-23 Japanese national champion and the 2022 Denis Ten Memorial Challenge champion. Takahashi is the first and at present only competitor to have earned medals at the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships in two different disciplines.

He is not only a pioneer in the field of competitive skating in Japan, but has also been a key individual in innovating the Japanese ice show market by headlining Hyoen, a novel cross-genre show format (combining several genres, such as kabuki, with figure skating), which implements projection mapping and addresses underrepresented themes such as the portrayal of same-sex attraction, among others. Since January 2023, he has taken on the role of producer/director and made his debut with Ice Explosion 2023. In addition to performing in ice shows, he has also appeared as a dancer in Cheryl Burke's stage production Love on the Floor.

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