Rena Inoue

Most Recent Results:
Event	Points	Finish	Year
Olympic Winter Games	175.01	7th	2006
World Championships	183.17	4th	2006
Four Continents	168.89	1st	2006
National Championships	181.05	1st	2006

Rena Inoue (井上怜奈 Inoue Rena born October 17, 1976 in Nishinomiya, Hyogo, Japan) is an American figure skater. She currently competes in pairs with John Baldwin, her partner both on- and off the ice. They have twice won gold medals at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships and will compete in the 2006 Winter Olympics. Previously, she represented Japan as a singles and pairs skater and competed in two Winter Olympics. She became a U.S. citizen in 2005.

Inoue and her partner John Baldwin were the first pair to successfully perform a throw triple Axel in competition at the 2006 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, and then made Olympic history landing it again at the 2006 Winter Games.

Inoue was diagnosed with lung cancer in 1998. However, it was detected early, and after six months of chemotherapy, she was cancer-free.

Competitive highlights

Singles

1994

• Olympics - 18th
• World Championships - 13th

Pairs

(with Tomoaki Koyama)

1991

• World Championships - 15th

1992

• Olympics - 14th

(with Baldwin)

2001

• U.S. Championships - 11th

2002

• U.S. Championships - 4th
• Four Continents Championships - 7th

2003

• U.S. Championships - 3rd
• World Championships - 10th

2004

• U.S. Championships - 1st
• Four Continents Championships - 4th
• World Championships - 10th

2005

• U.S. Championships - 2nd
• World Championships - 11th

2006

• U.S. Championships - 1st
• Four Continents Championships - 1st
• XX Olympics - 7th
• World Championships - 4th

External links

• USFSA Athlete Bio
• ISU Biography Page
• Rena's U.S. Olympic Team bio ... with notes, quotes, photos