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Mitsuru Matsumura
is a Japanese former competitive figure skater. He won the Japan Figure Skating Championships, Japanese national title in the 1978–79 season and competed at two Winter Olympics, placing 11th in Figure skating at the 1976 Winter Olympics, 1976 (Innsbruck) and 8th in Figure skating at the 1980 Winter Olympics, 1980 (Lake Placid, New York). He also appeared at seven World Championships, achieving his best results, 6th, at the 1980 World Figure Skating Championships, 1980 Worlds in Dortmund. After retiring from competition, he became a coach. Competitive highlights References 1957 births Living people Japanese male single skaters Olympic figure skaters of Japan Figure skaters at the 1976 Winter Olympics Figure skaters at the 1980 Winter Olympics {{Japan-figure-skating-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north toward the East China Sea, Philippine Sea, and Taiwan in the south. Japan is a part of the Ring of Fire, and spans Japanese archipelago, an archipelago of List of islands of Japan, 6852 islands covering ; the five main islands are Hokkaido, Honshu (the "mainland"), Shikoku, Kyushu, and Okinawa Island, Okinawa. Tokyo is the Capital of Japan, nation's capital and largest city, followed by Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Kobe, and Kyoto. Japan is the List of countries and dependencies by population, eleventh most populous country in the world, as well as one of the List of countries and dependencies by population density, most densely populated and Urbanization by country, urbanized. About three-fourths of Geography of Japan, the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
