Mao Asada is the 2010 Olympic silver medalist and a two-time world champion.
Has landed triple Axels in competition ... Older sister, Mai (two years older), competed internationally as well ... Mao moved to the United States after the 2006-07 season to train with Rafael Arutunian, but she moved back to Japan after the 2007-08 season ... Won her first World championship in 2008 ... Has trained in Russia with Tatiana Tarasova ... Switched coaches again following the 2009-10 season, when she started taking from Nobuo Sato ... Withdrew from the 2011 Grand Prix Final after learning her mother was gravely ill.
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2013 Season Notes
SP Music: "I Got Rhythm" variations by George Gershwin
FS Music: Music from Swan Lake by Tchaikovsky
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2012 Season Notes
SP Music: "Scheherazade" by Nikoli Rimski-Korsakov
FS Music: "Liebesträume" by Franz Liszt
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2011 Season Notes
SP Music: "Tango" by Alfred G. Schnittke
FS Music: "Liebesträume" by Franz Liszt
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2010 Season Notes
SP Music: "Waltz" from Masquerade Suite by Aram Khachaturian
FS Music: "Bells of Moscow" by Sergei Rachmaninoff
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2009 Season Notes
SP Music: "Clair de Lune" by Claude Debussy
FS Music: "Waltz" from Masquerade Suite by Aram Khachaturian
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2008 Season Notes
SP Music: "Fantasia for Violin and Orchestra" from Ladies in Lavender by Jean-Claude Petit,
performed by Joshua Bell
FS Music: "Fantaisie-Impromptu" by Fréderic Chopin
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2007 Season Notes
SP Music: "Nocturne in E-flat major, Op. 9, No. 2" by Frederic Chopin
FS Music: "Csárdás" by Vittorio Monti
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2006 Season Notes
SP Music: Music from Carmen by Georges Bizet
FS Music: Music from The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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2005 Season Notes
SP Music: "Over the Rainbow" by Harold Arlen
FS Music: Music from La Boutique Fantastique by Gioachino Rossini and Ottorino Respighi
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2004 Season Notes
SP Music: "Orchestral Suite" from My Girl 2
by Cliff Eidelman
FS Music: "Waltz-Scherzo in C major Op. 34" by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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2003 Season Notes
SP Music: "Say Hey Kids"
FS Music: "Inca Dance" and "Andes" by Cusco