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Shingo Nishiyama
Nishiyama at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics
Native name	西山 真瑚
Born	(2002-01-24) January 24, 2002 (age 22) Tokyo, Japan
Hometown	Tokyo
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Figure skating career
Country	Japan
Partner	Azusa Tanaka (since 2023) Ayumi Takanami (2021–22) Utana Yoshida (2019–21)
Coach	Romain Haguenauer, Marie-France Dubreuil, Patrice Lauzon
Skating club	OrientalBio
Began skating	2008
Japan Championships 2023–24 Nagano Ice dance 2021–22 Saitama Ice dance Winter Youth Olympics 2020 Lausanne Team

Shingo Nishiyama (西山 真瑚, Nishiyama Shingo, born January 24, 2002) is a Japanese ice dancer. He and current partner Azusa Tanaka are the 2023–24 Japanese national silver medalists.

With his former skating partner, Utana Yoshida, he was a two-time Japanese national junior ice dance champion (2020, 2021) and a 2020 Winter Youth Olympics champion in the team event. He later competed for one season with Ayumi Takanami, winning the bronze medal at the 2021–22 Japan Championships.

Personal life

Shingo Nishiyama was born on January 24, 2002, in Tokyo, Japan. He has an older sister. Nishiyama's favorite subjects in school are Japanese history and world history. He attended Hinode Gakuen, a correspondence school recommended by fellow Japanese ice dancer Aru Tateno. Nishiyama was accepted into Waseda University's School of Human Sciences to study sports education and psychology, as he wants to become a skating coach. He is related to Japanese ballerina Akane Takada through his mother's side and has worked with her on improving body movement.

Nishiyama has admired Yuzuru Hanyu since he was in elementary school.

Career

Early career

Nishiyama began skating in 2008 at the age of six, at the suggestion of his first coach Masahiro Kawagoe, who saw him attending a lesson at Citizens' Plaza in Shinjuku, Tokyo. He previously trained with Yutaka Higuchi in Tokyo, and qualified to compete at the Japan Championships each year. He was invited to skate in the gala at the 2013 World Team Trophy as the Japanese national novice champion in the same season.

Nishiyama moved to Canada alone at age fourteen to train with Brian Orser, Tracy Wilson, and Ghislain Briand at the Toronto Cricket, Skating and Curling Club, despite not knowing the language. After he suffered a hip injury in the fall of 2018 and was unable to practice jumps, another coach at the club, Andrew Hallam, suggested that he consider switching to ice dance. Despite Nishiyama's initial reluctance to switch disciplines, he drew inspiration from Japanese sprinter Dai Tamesue's book to adjust his mindset.

Nishiyama teamed up with Utana Yoshida in early 2019 after a tryout arranged by the Japan Skating Federation in the fall of 2018, and she moved to train with him and his coaches at the Toronto Cricket, Skating and Curling Club in Canada in February 2019.

Partnership with Yoshida

2019–2020 season

In their first season as a partnership, Yoshida/Nishiyama placed sixth at both 2019 JGP United States and 2019 JGP Italy. They then won gold at the Western Sectional and advanced to the 2019–20 Japan Junior Championships, where they again won gold, ahead of Ayumi Takanami / Yoshimitsu Ikeda. As a result, Yoshida/Nishiyama were assigned to the 2020 World Junior Championships and the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics. They were invited to skate in the gala at the 2019 NHK Trophy as junior national champion.

At the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics, Yoshida / Nishiyama placed sixth in the ice dance event with a new personal best, following a sixth-place rhythm dance and a fourth-place free dance. They were chosen by draw to be part of Team Courage for the mixed-NOC team event, alongside singles' skaters Arlet Levandi of Estonia and Ksenia Sinitsyna of Russia and pairs team Alina Butaeva / Luka Berulava of Georgia. Yoshida/Nishiyama won the free dance portion of the team event, ahead of both the silver and bronze medalists from the individual ice dance event, to help Team Courage win the gold medal.

Yoshida/Nishiyama set a goal of being in the top ten at the 2020 World Junior Championships. They placed twelfth in Tallinn.

2020–2021 season

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Junior Grand Prix, where Yoshida/Nishiyama would have competed, was cancelled. In November, they won their second consecutive junior national title at the 2020–21 Japan Junior Championships.

Yoshida/Nishiyama announced their split in January 2021. Nishiyama indicated that he would continue in ice dance, rather than returning to singles. In March 2021, he announced his new partnership with fellow Waseda University skater Ayumi Takanami.

Partnership with Takanami

2021–2022 season

Takanami/Nishiyama made their competitive debut at the 2021–22 Japan Championships, winning the bronze medal. Their partnership would soon dissolve afterwards.

Partnership with Nishiyama

2022–2023 season

Nishiyama competed in the men's singles during the 2022-23 season, coming sixteenth at the 2022–23 Japan Championships.

On 6 May 2023, Nishiyama announced that he and former Japanese single skater Azusa Tanaka had formed an ice dance partnership and would be training at the Ice Academy of Montreal in Montreal, Canada.

2023–2024 season

Tanaka/Nishiyama made their international competitive debut on the Challenger circuit at the 2023 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb, coming ninth. They next competed at the 2023–24 Japan Championships, which proved to be a tight contest between them and two other senior teams. Tanaka/Nishiyama won the rhythm dance, finishing ahead of four-time national champions Komatsubara/Koleto and the new team Yoshida/Morita. However, they were third in the free dance, and finished second overall. The team said they were satisfied to have made it onto the podium, noting their rapid progress in the short time since partnering.

With the close result at the national championships, the Japan Skating Federation opted to postpone assigning Japan's lone berth at the 2024 World Championships pending the results of all three teams at the 2024 Four Continents Championships. Traveling to Shanghai to compete, Tanaka/Nishiyama finished eleventh overall, third among the Japanese teams.

2024–25 season

Although initially assigned to compete at the 2024 CS Nebelhorn Trophy in September, Tanaka/Nishiyama would withdraw from the event. Their first event of the season was the 2024 NHK Trophy, where they finished tenth.

Programs

With Tanaka

With Yoshida

Men's singles

Competitive highlights

JGP: Junior Grand Prix

Ice dance with Tanaka

Ice dance with Takanami

Ice dance with Yoshida

Men's singles

Detailed results

Current personal best scores are highlighted in bold.

With Tanaka

Results in the 2024-25 season 

Date	Event	SP		FS		Total
		P	Score	P	Score	P	Score
Nov 8–10, 2024	2024 NHK Trophy	10	59.15	10	92.12	10	151.27

Results in the 2023-24 season 

Date	Event	SP		FS		Total
		P	Score	P	Score	P	Score
Dec 6–9, 2023	2023 CS Golden Spin	10	61.86	9	96.83	9	158.69
Dec 20–24, 2023	2023–24 Japan Championships	1	71.08	3	105.35	2	176.43
Jan. 30 – Feb. 4, 2024	2024 Four Continents Championships	11	62.09	12	95.54	11	157.63

With Yoshida

Junior results

References

1. ^ Kuryu, Atsuko (April 14, 2018). "Shingo Nishiyama thrives at the Cricket Club". Absolute Skating.
2. ^ Yokoi, Hiromi (January 16, 2020). "ユース五輪で金…アイスダンス西山真瑚は17歳でカナダ一人暮らし" [Gold at the Youth Olympics ... ice dancer Shingo Nishiyama lives alone in Canada at the age of 17] (in Japanese). Kobunsha. Archived from the original on March 2, 2020.
3. ^ Asano, Yumi (May 13, 2020). "フィギュアのアイスダンス界に新星、羽生結弦に憧れる早稲田大・西山真瑚" [Waseda University's rising ice dance star who admires Yuzuru Hanyu: Shingo Nishiyama] (in Japanese). 4years.
4. ^ Tamura, Akiko (September 6, 2019). "日本のアイスダンス界に新星！ 15歳吉田唄菜＆17歳西山真瑚。" [A rising star in the Japanese ice dance world! 15-year-old Utana Yoshida & 17-year-old Shingo Nishiyama.] (in Japanese). Number.
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11. Nishiyama, Shingo (January 18, 2021). "Thank you for supporting Utana and me. Today, there is an important announcement. Utana and I decided to separate into our own pathways" (Instagram). Archived from the original on 2021-12-25.
12. Nishiyama, Shingo (March 14, 2021). "この度、高浪歩未と西山真瑚はアイスダンスカップルを結成することになりました。" [This time, Ayumi Takanami and Shingo Nishiyama will form an ice dance couple.] (Tweet) – via Twitter.
13. Slater, Paula (December 25, 2021). "Komatsubara and Komatsubara defend Japanese National title". Golden Skate.
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15. Shingo Nishiyama (May 6, 2023). "この度、田中梓沙と西山真瑚はアイスダンスチームを結成することになりました！モントリオールのアイスアカデミーモントリオールで練習できることとても嬉しいです！行ってきます！" [Azusa Tanaka and Shingo Nishiyama will form an ice dance team! I am very happy to be able to practice at Ice Academy Montreal in Montreal! Let's go!] (Tweet) – via Twitter.
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19. "🇩🇪 Arthur Wolfgang Mai, 🇮🇱 Julia Fennell, 🇳🇱 Julia van Dijk, 🇳🇴 Linnea Kilsand, 🇮🇱 Elizabeth Tkachenko / Alexei Kiliakov, and 🇯🇵 Azusa Tanaka / Shingo Nishiyama have withdrawn from Nebelhorn Trophy". X. Anything GOEs. Retrieved 4 November 2024.
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External links

• Azusa TANAKA / Shingo NISHIYAMA at the International Skating Union
• Utana YOSHIDA / Shingo NISHIYAMA at the International Skating Union
• Shingo Nishiyama at the International Skating Union

• 2002 births
• Living people
• Japanese male ice dancers
• Japanese male single skaters
• Figure skaters from Tokyo
• Figure skaters at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics
• Waseda University alumni