Rena Inoue

Rena Inoue
Height	149 cm (4 ft 11 in)
Figure skating career
Country	United States
Partner	John Baldwin
Coach	Peter Oppegard
Skating club	All Year FSC

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
Grand Prix Final	155.72	6th	2004–05

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 pair skating with John Baldwin, her partner both on- and off the ice. They have twice won gold medals at the United States Figure Skating Championships and recently competed in the 2006 Winter Olympics. Previously, she represented Japan as a singles' and pair skater. She has competed in three different Winter Olympic Games, in 1992, 1994, and 2006. She became a U.S. citizen in 2005.

At the 2006 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, Inoue and Baldwin became the first pair to successfully perform a throw triple Axel in competition, and then made Olympic history by 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.

Inoue and Baldwin earned the gold medal at the 2006 Skate America event after winning the short program and placing second in the free skate. They won the silver medal at Skate Canada the next week; and finally took the silver at Trophee Eric Bompard one week later. Their goals for the 2006/2007 season is to make history (once again) and land a quad throw. They also want to win the 2007 National, World and Four Continent Championships.

Competitive highlights

Ladies' singles

1991

• Japanese Junior Nationals-1st

1992

• Japanese Junior Nationals-2nd

1993

• Japanese Junior Nationals-1st

1994

• Olympics - 18th
• World Championships - 13th
• Japanese Junior Nationals- 2nd
• Japanese Senior Nationals- 2nd
• World Junior Championships-5th

1998

• Japanese Senior Nationals-3rd

Pair skating

Event	1991	1992	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
Olympic Games		14th						7th
World Championships	15th				10th	10th	11th	4th
Four Continents				7th		4th		1st
U.S. Championships			11th	4th	3rd	1st	2nd	1st

External links

• Rena Inoue at U.S. Figure Skating (archived)
• Rena Inoue at the International Skating Union
• Rena's U.S. Olympic Team bio, with notes, quotes, and photos