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Akiko Suzuki
Akiko Suzuki (鈴木 明子, Suzuki Akiko) (born March 28, 1985) is a Japanese figure skating choreographer and retired competitive figure skater. She is the 2012 World Championships bronze medalist, a three-time Grand Prix Final medalist (2011 silver, 2009 & 2012 bronze), a two-time Four Continents silver medalist (2010, 2013), the 2007 Winter Universiade champion, and the 2013 Japanese national champion. She placed eighth at the 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympics.
Suzuki was born on March 28, 1985, in Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture. She became engaged to a former classmate in June 2016 and married him on February 1, 2017. They divorced in 2018.
Suzuki trained in Nagoya, Japan. She began skating at age 6. At the same time, she worked for Toho Real Estate, which has its own skating rink.
Suzuki debuted on the Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating series in 1999 with one assignment in Sweden, where she took 7th place. In the 2000–2001 season, she received two assignments, where she placed 6th and 8th.
The next season, she won the bronze medal at the 2001–02 Junior Grand Prix Final after winning the Junior Grand Prix in Japan and taking bronze at the Junior Grand Prix in the Czech Republic. In the 2002–2003 season, she won her assignment in the United States, but she placed 5th at her second assignment in China and did not advance to the final.
Later in 2003, after a successful junior career, she was hampered by her struggles with anorexia nervosa, which began at age 18 when she left home for university and to train with coach Hiroshi Nagakubo. As a teenager, she began to restrict what kinds of food she ate and often went hungry due to the pressure to maintain a low weight and act responsible, but she was in good health overall.
On going to university, where she was in control of her own diet, she began to lose dangerous amounts of weight. Suzuki said she kept the disorder to herself and that "People don’t get it. They assume eating is easy. It’s not like I didn’t want to eat." Her weight fell to 32 kg. Nagakubo and the head of the skating division, out of concern for her health, eventually asked her to temporarily stop competing and to return home and see a doctor. Although she initially resisted the diagnosis of an eating disorder, she began recovering with professional help and support from her mother.
Due to her recovery, she missed the entire 2003–2004 season, during which she did not train for months. She returned to university in October 2003 and was able to compete at an intercollegiate competition in January, though still far from her previous level.
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Akiko Suzuki
Akiko Suzuki (鈴木 明子, Suzuki Akiko) (born March 28, 1985) is a Japanese figure skating choreographer and retired competitive figure skater. She is the 2012 World Championships bronze medalist, a three-time Grand Prix Final medalist (2011 silver, 2009 & 2012 bronze), a two-time Four Continents silver medalist (2010, 2013), the 2007 Winter Universiade champion, and the 2013 Japanese national champion. She placed eighth at the 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympics.
Suzuki was born on March 28, 1985, in Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture. She became engaged to a former classmate in June 2016 and married him on February 1, 2017. They divorced in 2018.
Suzuki trained in Nagoya, Japan. She began skating at age 6. At the same time, she worked for Toho Real Estate, which has its own skating rink.
Suzuki debuted on the Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating series in 1999 with one assignment in Sweden, where she took 7th place. In the 2000–2001 season, she received two assignments, where she placed 6th and 8th.
The next season, she won the bronze medal at the 2001–02 Junior Grand Prix Final after winning the Junior Grand Prix in Japan and taking bronze at the Junior Grand Prix in the Czech Republic. In the 2002–2003 season, she won her assignment in the United States, but she placed 5th at her second assignment in China and did not advance to the final.
Later in 2003, after a successful junior career, she was hampered by her struggles with anorexia nervosa, which began at age 18 when she left home for university and to train with coach Hiroshi Nagakubo. As a teenager, she began to restrict what kinds of food she ate and often went hungry due to the pressure to maintain a low weight and act responsible, but she was in good health overall.
On going to university, where she was in control of her own diet, she began to lose dangerous amounts of weight. Suzuki said she kept the disorder to herself and that "People don’t get it. They assume eating is easy. It’s not like I didn’t want to eat." Her weight fell to 32 kg. Nagakubo and the head of the skating division, out of concern for her health, eventually asked her to temporarily stop competing and to return home and see a doctor. Although she initially resisted the diagnosis of an eating disorder, she began recovering with professional help and support from her mother.
Due to her recovery, she missed the entire 2003–2004 season, during which she did not train for months. She returned to university in October 2003 and was able to compete at an intercollegiate competition in January, though still far from her previous level.
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