Ryuju Hino

Ryuju Hino (日野 龍樹, Hino Ryūju; born 12 February 1995) is a Japanese former figure skater. He has won five senior international medals, seven ISU Junior Grand Prix medals – including bronze at the 2012–13 JGP Final, and two (2011, 2012) Japanese national junior titles.

Ryuju Hino
Hino at the 2018 Finlandia Trophy
Born	(1995-02-12) 12 February 1995 (age 30) Tokyo, Japan
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Figure skating career
Country	Japan
Coach	Miho Kawaume Yoriko Naruse
Skating club	Chukyo University
Began skating	2001
Retired	December 26, 2020
Medal record Representing  Japan Figure skating: Men's singles Junior Grand Prix Final 2012–13 Sochi Men's singles

Career

Hino won gold and silver medals during the 2011–12 ISU Junior Grand Prix series and qualified for the JGP Final where he finished 5th. He won the Japanese Junior Championships.

During the 2012–13 ISU Junior Grand Prix season, Hino won bronze in France and silver in Austria and qualified for the 2012 JGP Final in Sochi, Russia. At the final, Hino edged out American skater Jason Brown for the bronze medal. Hino won his second junior national title at the 2012 Japanese Junior Championships.

In the 2013–14 JGP season, Hino won two silver medals at his events in Mexico and Belarus. Having qualified for his third JGP Final, he finished sixth in Fukuoka, Japan. He won his first senior international medal, bronze, at the 2014 Triglav Trophy.

He announced his retirement after the 2020–2021 season.^[1]

Programs

Season	Short program	Free skating	Exhibition
2020–2021	Symphonie n° 3 ut mineur op.78, avec orgue by Camille Saint-Saëns choreo. by Kohei Yoshino	Second movement, Piano Concerto No. 1 by Philip Glass choreo. by Kohei Yoshino
2019–2020 [2]		Carmen by Georges Bizet choreo. by Kohei Yoshino
2018–2019 [2]	Addicted to Love by Rachel Portman choreo. by Natalia Bestemianova, Igor Bobrin	La Bohème by Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini choreo. by Kenji Miyamoto
2017–2018		Quidam (from Cirque du Soleil) by Benoît Jutras choreo. by Natalia Bestemianova, Igor Bobrin	Criminal
2016–2017 [3]	Artsakh by Ara Gevorgyan choreo. by Natalia Bestemianova, Igor Bobrin }
2015–2016 [4][5]		King Arthur by Hans Zimmer choreo. by Kenji Miyamoto
2014–2015 [6]	Lunatico by Gotan Project choreo. by Kenji Miyamoto
2013–2014 [7]	TaTaKu (best of Kodo) by Tetsuro Naito, Motofumi Yamaguchi	Romeo and Juliet by Sergei Prokofiev
2012–2013 [8]		Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves by Michael Kamen
2011–2012 [9]	Russian Sailors' Dance by Reinhold Glière	The Matrix Revolutions by Don Davis, Ben Watkins
2010–2011 [10]		Don Quixote by Ludwig Minkus
2007–2008	Sabre Dance (from Gayane) by Aram Khachaturian

Competitive highlights

GP: Grand Prix; CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix

International[11]
Event	04–05	05–06	06–07	07–08	08–09	09–10	10–11	11–12	12–13	13–14	14–15	15–16	16–17	17–18	18–19	19–20	20–21
GP NHK Trophy													9th
CS Finlandia												6th	11th		10th
CS Nebelhorn											10th
CS Ondrej Nepela														11th
Asian Trophy														2nd
Bavarian Open												3rd	4th
Challenge Cup											3rd			5th
Gardena							6th
Merano Cup											1st
Printemps										2nd
Triglav Trophy										3rd
Universiade											8th		6th
International: Junior[11]
Junior Worlds								9th	10th
JGP Final								5th	3rd	6th
JGP Austria									2nd
JGP Belarus										2nd
JGP France							5th		3rd
JGP Japan							12th
JGP Latvia								1st
JGP Mexico										2nd
JGP Romania								2nd
International: Novice[11]
Asian Trophy				1st[12]
Gardena				1st[13]
Mladost Trophy			2nd[14]
National[11][15]
Japan Champ.						18th	13th	10th	10th	12th	9th	8th	4th	7th	14th	13th	11th
Japan Junior			10th	10th		4th	3rd	1st	1st	3rd
Japan Novice	6th B	1st B	1st A	3rd A
Team Events
Japan Open																	2nd T 3rd P
TBD = Assigned T = Team result; P = Personal result. Medals awarded for team result only.