RENA INOUE

'Most Recent Results:'
''Event''	''Points''	''Finish''	''Year''
Olympic Winter Games	175.01	7th	2006
World Championships	183.17	4th	2006
Four Continents	168.89	1st	2006
National Championships	181.05	1st	2006
Grand Prix Final	155.72	6th	2004–05

is an American pair skater. With partner John Baldwin, she is the 2004 and 2006 U.S. National Champion. Inoue previously competed for Japan as both a single skater and pair skater. Inoue and Baldwin are the first skaters to perform a throw triple axel in competition.

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Career

Competitive highlights

Ladies' singles

Pair skating

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Career

Inoue originally competed as a single and pair skater for Japan. She competed for Japan as a pair skater with Tomoaki Koyama at the 1992 Olympics and as a single skater at the 1994 Olympics.
Inoue was diagnosed with lung cancer in 1998. However, it was detected early, and after six months of chemotherapy, she was cancer-free.
She teamed up with John Baldwin and began competing with him in 2000. She became a U.S. citizen in 2005.
At the 2006 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, Inoue and Baldwin became the first pair to successfully perform a throw triple Axel in competition, and then made Olympic history by landing it again at the 2006 Winter Games.
Inoue and Baldwin earned the gold medal at the 2006 Skate America event after winning the short program and placing second in the free skate. They won the silver medal at Skate Canada the next week; and finally took the silver at Trophee Eric Bompard one week later. They officially qualified for the Grand Prix Final at the conclusion of the pair's event at the NHK Trophy competition, the last competition in the Grand prix. They lost their national title and then placed 8th at the 2007 World Championships.

Competitive highlights

Ladies' singles

1991

★ Japanese Junior Nationals-1st
1992

★ Japanese Junior Nationals-2nd
1993

★ Japanese Junior Nationals-1st
1994

★ Olympics - 18th

★ World Championships - 13th

★ Japanese Junior Nationals- 2nd

★ Japanese Senior Nationals- 2nd

★ World Junior Championships-5th
1998

★ Japanese Senior Nationals-3rd

Pair skating

(with John Baldwin for the United States)

Event	2000-2001	2001-2002	2002-2003	2003-2004	2004-2005	2005-2006	2006-2007
Olympic Games						7th
World Championships			10th	10th	11th	4th	8th
Four Continents		7th		4th		1st	3rd
U.S. Championships	11th	4th	3rd	1st	2nd	1st	2nd
Grand Prix Final					6th		4th
Skate America					3rd	2nd	1st
Skate Canada Int.							2nd
Bofrost Cup			5th
Cup of China				5th
Trophee Eric Bompard						4th	2nd
Cup of Russia			5th
NHK Trophy				4th	4th

(with Tomoaki Koyama for Japan)

Event	1989-1990	1990-1991	1991-1992
Winter Olympic Games			14th
World Championships		15th
World Junior Championships	7th
Japanese Championships		1st	1st
NHK Trophy			7th

External links

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★ Rena's U.S. Olympic Team bio, with notes, quotes, and photos

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