Yuzuru Hanyu

Okay, I'll just say it: Yuzuru Hanyu doesn't really move like a person on the ice, he moves like the music decided to grow a body. Two Olympic golds back to back, the first Asian man to do it, and somehow that wasn't the headline that stuck with me. What got me was a guy who'd already won everything still throwing himself at the quad Axel, the jump nobody had landed, like winning had stopped being the point and beauty had taken over. Then he goes pro and basically becomes a one-man theater, writing and producing whole shows, including the first-ever solo ice show in a baseball dome. Off the ice he's soft-spoken and careful with his words, this old-world politeness that just makes the obsession hit harder. The man fell a thousand times and got up every single one.

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Yuzuru Hanyu is a Japanese figure skater born on December 7, 1994, in Izumi, Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture. He won gold medals in men's singles at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics and the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, becoming the first Asian skater to win the Olympic men's singles title and the first to defend it. In 2020 he completed the Super Slam — winning all six major international titles — a first in men's figure skating history. He turned professional in July 2022 and has since produced and performed in his own large-scale ice shows, including GIFT at Tokyo Dome in 2023, the first solo Tokyo Dome show by a figure skater.

Name (English)

Yuzuru Hanyu

Name (Japanese)

羽生結弦

Reading

はにゅうゆづる

Born

December 7, 1994 (age 31)

Origin

Izumi, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

Height

172 cm

Occupation

Competitive Figure Skater / Professional Skater / Ice Show Producer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Dog

Blood type

B

Agency

Independent (advisory contract with Phiten Co., Ltd.)

Agency history

All Nippon Airways (ANA) affiliated athlete (2013–September 2023)

Active years

2003–present

Junior high

Sendai City Nanahokita Junior High School

High school

Tohoku High School

University

Waseda University, School of Human Sciences (correspondence program, graduated)

Debut

Began competitive figure skating in earnest in 2003. Moved to the senior division in the 2010–11 season, and won his first Olympic gold medal at the 2014 Sochi Games — the first Asian man to do so.

Awards & achievements

• 2014 Winter Olympics (Sochi) – Men's Singles Gold Medal (first Asian man)
• 2014 World Figure Skating Championships – Men's Singles Champion
• 2014 Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon (Japan)
• 2017 World Figure Skating Championships – Men's Singles Champion (2nd title)
• 2018 Winter Olympics (Pyeongchang) – Men's Singles Gold Medal (back-to-back champion)
• 2018 People's Honor Award (Japan, youngest individual recipient)
• 2018 Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon (2nd time)
• 2013 ISU Grand Prix Final Champion (4 consecutive titles, 2013–2016)
• 2020 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships Champion – Super Slam completed (all six major titles, first in men's history)

Timeline

1. 1994Born on December 7 in Izumi, Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture
2. 1998Began skating at age 4
3. 2010Moved to the senior division; senior Grand Prix debut
4. 2011The 2011 Tohoku earthquake damaged his home rink in Sendai, which suspended operations
5. 2013Won the Grand Prix Final (first of four consecutive titles through 2016)
6. 2014Won Olympic gold at Sochi and the World Championships title
7. 2016Became the first skater to land a quadruple loop jump in international competition
8. 2017Won the World Championships for the second time
9. 2018Won Olympic gold at Pyeongchang (back-to-back); received the People's Honor Award
10. 2020Won the Four Continents Championships, completing the Super Slam — all six major international titles, a first in men's figure skating history
11. 2022Attempted the quadruple Axel in the free skate at the Beijing Olympics; announced his move to professional skating in July
12. 2023Held the solo ice show GIFT at Tokyo Dome, the first solo Tokyo Dome show by a skater; announced his marriage in August and divorce in November

Spouse

Announced his marriage in August 2023 and his divorce in November 2023

Siblings

Older sister

Hobbies

• Reading (Osamu Dazai, Kojiki, etc.)
• Collecting earphones and audio equipment
• Listening to music

Specialties

• Figure skating (all quadruple jump types)
• Choreography and program composition
• Scriptwriting for ice shows

Filmography / notable works

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/yuzuruofficial_/
• Xhttps://x.com/yuzuruofficial_
• YouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UChXVX37lFVqMfYWNsDvqhdQ
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%BE%BD%E7%94%9F%E7%B5%90%E5%BC%A6
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q597023

Tags

• Yuzuru Hanyu
• Figure Skating
• Sendai, Miyagi
• Olympic Gold Medalist
• Professional Skater
• People's Honor Award
• Super Slam
• Waseda University

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.