1. Shingo Nishiyama was born on January 24,2002, in Tokyo, Japan.
11 Facts About Shingo Nishiyama
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Shingo Nishiyama attended Hinode Gakuen, a correspondence school recommended by fellow Japanese ice dancer Aru Tateno.
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Shingo Nishiyama was accepted into Waseda University's School of Human Sciences to study sports education and psychology, as he wants to become a skating coach.
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Shingo Nishiyama is related to Japanese ballerina Akane Takada through his mother's side and has worked with her on improving body movement.
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Shingo Nishiyama began skating in 2008 at the age of six, at the suggestion of his first coach Masahiro Kawagoe, who saw him attending a lesson at Citizens' Plaza in Shinjuku, Tokyo.
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Shingo Nishiyama previously trained with Yutaka Higuchi in Tokyo, and qualified to compete at the Japan Championships each year.
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Shingo Nishiyama was invited to skate in the gala at the 2013 World Team Trophy as the Japanese national novice champion in the same season.
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Shingo Nishiyama moved to Canada alone at age fourteen to train with Brian Orser, Tracy Wilson, and Ghislain Briand at the Toronto Cricket, Skating and Curling Club, despite not knowing the language.
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Shingo Nishiyama teamed up with Utana Yoshida in early 2019 after a tryout arranged by the Japan Skating Federation in the fall of 2018, and she moved to train with him and his coaches at the Toronto Cricket, Skating and Curling Club in Canada in February 2019.
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Shingo Nishiyama indicated that he would continue in ice dance, rather than returning to singles.
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On 6 May 2023, Shingo Nishiyama announced that he and former Japanese single skater Azusa Tanaka had formed an ice dance partnership and would be training at the Ice Academy of Montreal in Montreal, Canada.