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Regina skater closes is on medal for Japan

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Japanese skater Mervin Tran during the short program pair event in the NHK Trophy, the fourth event of the six-stage ISU figure skating Grand Prix series, in Sapporo, northern Japan, on Friday. - Japanese skater Mervin Tran during the short program pair event in the NHK Trophy, the fourth event of the six-stage ISU figure skating Grand Prix series, in Sapporo, northern Japan, on Friday. | AFP/Getty Images
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Regina skater closes is on medal for Japan

BEVERLEY SMITH

The Associated Press
Published Friday, Nov. 11, 2011 2:29PM EST
Last updated Friday, Nov. 11, 2011 2:30PM EST

A skater from Regina has found himself in second place in the pairs event at the NHK Trophy in Japan, the fourth of six Grand Prix of figure skating events.
Mervin Tran, a son of refugees from Viet Nam and Cambodia, started playing hockey as a youngster in Regina, but now he’s in line to win a figure skating medal – for Japan.
Tran started out as a singles skater in Saskatchewan, but moved to Montreal in July of 2007 to skate pairs with Japanese skater, Narumi Takahashi, who had been looking for a pair partner through Canadian coach Richard Gauthier.
Although Japan has had powerful singles skaters, both men and women, it has never had strong pair teams. Takahashi and Tran became only the second Japanese pair skaters to win an International Skating Union championship, when they won a silver medal at the 2010 world junior championships. Last year, they became the first Japanese pair team to win the Junior Grand Prix Final in Beijing.
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