Daisuke Murakami (figure skater)

Daisuke Murakami
Daisuke Murakami at 2015 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final
Born	(1991-01-15) January 15, 1991 (age 33) Kanagawa, Japan
Height	165 cm (5 ft 5 in)
Figure skating career
Country	Japan
Coach	Frank Carroll Kumiko Sato
Skating club	Aomori FSC
Began skating	2000
Retired	June 14, 2018[1]

Daisuke "Dice" Murakami (村上 大介, Murakami Daisuke, born January 15, 1991, in Kanagawa) is a Japanese figure skater.

He is the 2014 NHK Trophy champion, 2011 Ondrej Nepela Memorial champion, and 2009 Japan Junior bronze medalist.

Earlier in his career, he represented the United States, winning a bronze medal on the ISU Junior Grand Prix series and the 2006 U.S. junior national pewter medal.

In 2011, Murakami became the first to land the quad salchow jump in the men's category at the Japan Championships.^{[citation needed]}

Murakami has appeared in variety of TV show's in Japan collaborating with Yoshiki Hayashi from X Japan and Kenta Maeda from Los Angeles Dodgers