NOBUNARI ODA

'Most Recent Results:'
''Event''	''Points''	''Finish''	''Year''
World Championships	207.94	7th	2007
Grand Prix Final	216.86	3rd	2007
NHK Trophy	244.56	2nd	2006

'Nobunari Oda' () (born on March 25, 1987 in Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese figure skater. He is the 2005 World Junior Champion.

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Career

Programs

Competitive highlights

References

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Career

Oda won the World Junior Championships in his third season of international competition. He turned senior for the Olympic year, because he was guaranteed a senior Grand Prix assignment because he won Junior Worlds. Because it was an Olympic year, it was felt that giving him more international experience would aid him in his quest to make the Olympic team.
Oda made a splash immediately as a senior, winning the bronze medal at his first event and winning the NHK Trophy over favorites Daisuke Takahashi and reigning world bronze medalist Evan Lysacek. Oda qualified for the Grand Prix Final and placed fourth.
Oda was proclaimed the winner of the 2005-2006 Japanese Figure Skating Championships, but a glitch in the computer software was discovered and he fell to second place due to having done too many combinations. The Japanese federation split the international assignments between Oda and declared-winner Daisuke Takahashi, sending Oda to the 2006 World Figure Skating Championships, and Takahashi to the Olympics, because Japan had only one spot for each competition due to the withdrawel of Takeshi Honda from the 2005 World Championships and Takahashi's 15th place finish at that competition. Oda placed fourth at his first Worlds, earning Japan two spots to the 2007 Worlds.
The following season, he placed 1st at Skate America over American Evan Lysacek and 2nd at the NHK Trophy to compatriot Daisuke Takahashi. He qualified for the Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final and placed third. At his national championships, Oda won the silver medal for the second straight year. He went on to compete at the 2007 Winter Universiade in Torino, Italy, where he won silver. At the 2007 Worlds, held in Tokyo, Oda once again performed too many combinations and placed 7th overall.
On July 26, 2007, Oda was arrested by the Osaka prefectural police for driving his moped^[1] under the influence of alcohol.^[2][3] Luckily, no one was hurt.^[4] Oda has apologized for his crime.^[5] Due to this incident, Oda was quickly removed from the cast of an upcoming ice show in Japan.⁵
On August 2, 2007, the Japan Skating Federation announced that it had suspended Oda from national competition until the end of October and from international competition and exhibitions^[6] until the end of December^[7][8][9], effectively withdrawing him from his two Grand Prix of Figure Skating assignments (Skate Canada and Trophée Eric Bompard) while allowing him to compete at Nationals and try to earn a spot to the 2008 World Championships^[10].
The federation has also sentenced Oda to perform community service.^[1] He has accepted the punishment meted out by the federation.^[12]
Oda was fined ¥100,000, which he immediately paid.http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20070809-00000108-san-soci
Oda is the 17th direct descendant of Oda Nobunaga,^[13] a famous daimyo during Japan's Sengoku period.

Programs

Season	''Short Program''	''Free Skating''	''Exhibition''
2006-2007	FLY ME TO THE MOON	SYMPHONY No.4 (Tchaikovsky) / MISSION IMPOSSIBLE	FLY ME TO THE MOON (vocal version)
2005-2006	LE NOZZE DI FIGARO	ZATOICHI	ROOSTER
2004-2005	SUPER MARIO BROTHER'S	ZATOICHI	ROOSTER
2003-2004	NEW CINEMA PARADISE	THE ROCK	RHYTHM DELIVERY / NEW CINEMA PARADISE
2002-2003	EL CUNBANCHERO	THE MASK OF ZORRO	TOAST OF THE TOWN / RHYTHM DELIVERY
2001-2002	EL CUNBANCHERO	THE MASK OF ZORRO

Competitive highlights

'Event/Season'	'2001-2002'	'2002-2003'	'2003-2004'	'2004-2005'	'2005-2006'	'2006-2007'
World Championships					4th	7th
Four Continents					1st
World Junior Championships			11th	1st
Japanese Championships	16th	6th	5th	3rd	2nd	2nd
Japanese Junior Championships	4th	3rd	2nd	1st
Grand Prix Final					4th	3rd
Skate America						1st
NHK Trophy					1st	2nd
Skate Canada					3rd
Winter Universiade						2nd
Junior Grand Prix Final			8th
Junior Grand Prix, USA				4th
Junior Grand Prix, Ukraine				3rd
Junior Grand Prix, Japan			3rd
Junior Grand Prix, Slovakia		2nd	2nd
Junior Grand Prix, Italy		7th
Mladost Trophy			1st

References

1. http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory?id=3439412
2. Figure skater Oda suspected of drink driving
3. Figure skater Nobunari Oda apprehended for drunk-driving
4. http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/wire?section=figureskating&id=2958193
5. 織田信成選手、酒気帯び運転で謝罪
6. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/winter_sports/wires/08/02/2080.ap.fig.japan.oda.banned.0318/index.html
7. Figure skater banned after being stopped on moped Alastair Himmer
8. Japanese Skater Banned for Drunk Driving YURI KAGEYAMA
9. Japan's Oda banned after being stopped on moped Alastair Himmer
10. Japanese figure skater Nobunari Oda banned from competition for drunken driving
11. http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory?id=3439412
12. http://www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/winter/2007-08-02-oda-banned_N.htm
13. http://www.skatetoday.com/articles0405/032005.htm

External links

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