Yuka Nagai

Yuka Nagai is a Japanese former figure skater. She is the 2015 Skate Canada International bronze medalist and 2016 Bavarian Open champion. She has finished in the top ten at two ISU Championships.

Career

Nagai finished 18th at the 2012 Japanese Junior Championships. Her international debut came at the start of the 2012–13 season, at the 2012 Asian Trophy. She placed 7th at her ISU Junior Grand Prix event in Austria, and 18th at the Japanese Junior Championships.
In 2013–14, Nagai finished 8th at her JGP event in Latvia and 19th at the Japanese Junior Championships.

During the 2014–15 JGP series, Nagai won silver medals in Ljubljana, Slovenia and Nagoya, Japan. Her results qualified her for the Junior Grand Prix Final, held in December 2014 in Barcelona, Spain, where she placed 5th.
Nagai placed 4th at the 2015 Japanese Championships and won the bronze medal at the junior event, finishing behind Wakaba Higuchi and Kaori Sakamoto. She was selected to compete at the 2015 Four Continents where she placed 6th in her senior international debut.
She closed her season by finishing 7th at the 2015 World Junior Championships.

Nagai started her season on the ISU Challenger Series, placing 6th at the 2015 Ondrej Nepela Trophy.
Making her debut on the senior level of the ISU Grand Prix, Nagai won bronze at 2015 Skate Canada International.

Season	Short program	Free skating	Exhibition
2020–2021	Elisabeth choreo. by Akiko Suzuki	East of Eden by Lee Holdridge choreo. by Kenji Miyamoto
2019–2020	Byakuya wo Iku by Shin Kono choreo. by Akiko Suzuki	Adiós Nonino by Astor Piazzolla choreo. by Kenji Miyamoto
2018–2019	Riverdance by Bill Whelan choreo. by Misao Sato	Cinderella by Sergei Prokofiev choreo. by Akiko Suzuki
2017–2018
2016–2017	Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra by Joshua Bell	The Ludlows by James Horner
2015–2016	Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini choreo. by Kenji Miyamoto ---- Piano Concerto No. 3 by Sergei Rachmaninoff choreo. by Kenji Miyamoto	August's Rhapsody by Mark Mancina choreo. by Shae-Lynn Bourne	Skinny Love performed by Birdy
2014–2015	East of Eden by Lee Holdridge choreo. by Shae-Lynn Bourne	Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso by Camille Saint-Saëns choreo. by Megumu Seki	Skinny Love performed by Birdy
2013–2014	Violin Concerto by Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky	Violin Muse by Johann Sebastian Bach
2012–2013	Liebesträume by Franz Liszt	Polovtsian Dances by Alexander Borodin