Hanyu has participated at the Winter Olympics three times, winning two gold medals (in 2014 and 2018) and placing fourth in 2022. He is the first Asian in the men’s singles discipline to win the Olympics. In 2018, he also became the first male single skater in 66 years to win two consecutive gold medals since Dick Button (in 1948 and 1952).

In his three Olympic seasons, Hanyu skated to three different short and free skate programs each, with their background and making being broadly covered by the media. In 2013–14, he became the first Asian and second skater across all disciplines to win the Olympics, Worlds, and the Grand Prix Final in the same season, after Russian Alexei Yagudin in 2001–02. In the 2021–22 season, Hanyu won his sixth national title and went for the quadruple Axel jump for the first time, with his attempt at the Beijing Olympics being the closest in competition by any skater up to then. (Full article …)

Hanyu has produced four different ice shows in the course of his career. The first one, titled Continues with Wings, was held in March 2018 in Tokyo, celebrating his back-to-back wins at the 2014 and 2018 Winter Olympics and paying tribute to the skaters who had supported and influenced him.

At Prologue in Winter 2022, he challenged the concept of a solo ice show for the first time, performing at the athletic level of skating competitions. With his second solo show Gift in February 2023, he became the first skater to perform at the Tokyo Dome, breaking the record for the largest figure skating audience with 35,000 spectators. In his latest show Yuzuru Hanyu Notte Stellata, a commemoration event of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami held in March 2023, Hanyu teamed up with three-time Olympic gymnastics champion Kohei Uchimura, fusing the sports of figure skating and artistic gymnastics for the first time. (Full article …)

In the course of his competitive career, Hanyu has won a total of 37 gold medals at senior and junior competitions, among them two Winter Olympics and World Championships each as well as four Grand Prix Finals, the Four Continents Championships, Junior Worlds, and the Junior Final, becoming the first men’s singles skater to complete the Super Slam.

He broke world records nineteen times in two different judging systems, the most among single skaters since the introduction of the ISU Judging System in 2004, and became the first skater across all disciplines to score above 100 points in the short program, 200 points in the free skating, and 300 points in the combined total score. He is also the first skater to land a quadruple loop jump in international competition among other achievements. (Full list …)

Hanyu has skated to thirteen different short and free skate programs each in the course of his competitive career with their makings being broadly covered by Japanese media. Outside competition, he skated multiple programs at exhibition galas and ice shows, some of them being performed as live music collaborations with renowned guest artists like singer Toshi or the J-pop duo Chemistry. He also dedicated various gala performances to the victims of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami and has participated in all editions of the annual charity show 24-hour TV “Love Saves the Earth” on Nippon TV since 2014. In January 2020, a selection of 23 programs was performed as a special concert in Tokyo, dedicated to Hanyu with the title Music with Wings.

Among his most notable publications is Hanyu’s autobiography series Aoi Hono (青い炎), consisting of four books as of August 2023, as well as his graduation thesis about the utilization of a wireless motion capture system in figure skating, published by Waseda University. (Full list …)