Keiji Tanaka

is a retired Japanese figure skater. He is the 2016 NHK Trophy bronze medalist, 2019 Skate Canada bronze medalist, three-time ISU Challenger Series medalist (including gold at the 2019 U.S. Classic), 2017 Winter Universiade silver medalist, 2011 World Junior silver medalist, six-time medalist on the ISU Junior Grand Prix, and a two-time Japanese national silver medalist (2016, 2017). He represented his country at the 2018 Winter Olympics.

Career Tanaka began skating in 2002. and was named to compete at the 2018 Winter Olympics, 2018 Four Continents Championships and the 2018 World Championships.

At the 2018 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships, Tanaka set new personal bests in the short program, free skate and overall, finishing fourth. He placed eighteenth at the 2018 Winter Olympics after placing twentieth in the short and fifteenth in the free. He ended the season with a thirteenth-place finish at the World Championships.

2018–2019 season Again beginning the season at the Ondrej Nepela Trophy, Tanaka won the bronze medal. He placed eighth at both of his two Grand Prix assignments, the 2018 Grand Prix of Helsinki and the 2018 Internationaux de France. At the Japanese National Championships, he won the bronze medal behind Shoma Uno and Daisuke Takahashi. He placed seventh at the 2019 Four Continents Championships, and fourteenth at the 2019 World Championships.

2019–2020 season

Tanaka began his season at the 2019 U.S. Classic, where he won the gold medal.

Tanaka's first Grand Prix assignment was the 2019 Skate Canada International in Kelowna. Whilst traveling from a training session at the arena, Tanaka and fellow Japanese skater Marin Honda were in a car accident that led to both being briefly hospitalized. Tanaka was left with a sore knee. which was a spin-off of the cross-genre Hyoen series, starring Daisuke Takahashi.

2021–2022 season Beginning the Grand Prix at the 2021 Skate Canada International, Tanaka finished in tenth place.

As a coach, his current students include Nozomu Yoshioka and Haru Kakiuchi.

In the spring of 2023 it was announced that Tanaka would be portraying Roronoa Zoro in the show One Piece on Ice.

In 2025 Tanaka was cast as Sasa Morihiko in the storytelling ice show Hyoen – Mirror-Patterend Demon , starring Daisuke Takahashi and Takahisa Masuda. It was the first time he had to speak dialogue in an ice show.

Programs Post-Competitive Career Programs SeasonExhibition2022-2023 Run Boy Run The Prophet Somewhere in Time 2021-2022 24 Preludes, Op.28, No.4 & No.24 Somewhere in Time Progress Starland Competitive Career Programs Season Short program Free skating Exhibition 2021–2022 Here We Go (Godzilla vs. Kong Trailer Music) Tasman Sea

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Whiplash 2020–2021

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