Education
Nagai finished 18th at the 2012 Japanese Junior Championships.
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Yuka Nagai
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Career
Early career
Her international debut came at the start of the 2012-2013 season, at the 2012 Asian Trophy. She placed 7th at her International Skating Union Junior Grand Prix (JGP) event in Austria, and 18th at the Japanese Junior Championships. In 2013-2014, Nagai finished 8th at her JGP event in Latvia and 19th at the Japanese Junior Championships.
2014-2015 season
She was selected to compete at the 2015 Four Continents where she placed 6th in her senior international debut.
She closed her season by finishing 7th at the 2015 World Junior Championships. 2015-2016 season
Nagai started her season on the International Skating Union Challenger Series (CS), placing 6th at the 2015 Ondrej Nepela Trophy.
Achievements
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She won two silver medals on the International Skating Union Junior Grand Prix series, finished in the top ten at two International Skating Union Championships, and won bronze at the 2014-2015 Japan Junior Championships. During the 2014-2015 JGP series, Nagai won silver medals in Ljubljana, Slovenia and Nagoya, Japan. Her results qualified her for the Junior Grand Prix Final, held in December 2014 in Barcelona, Spain, where she placed 5th. Nagai placed 4th at the 2015 Japanese Championships and won the bronze medal at the junior event, finishing behind Wakaba Higuchi and Kaori Sakamoto. Making her debut on the senior level of the International Skating Union Grand Prix, Nagai won bronze at 2015 Skate Canada International.
