Yuzuru Hanyu is a Japanese figure skater and ice show producer who competed in the men's singles discipline from 2004 to 2022 and turned professional on July 19, 2022.

With his win at the 2020 Four Continents Championships, he became the first male single skater to complete the Super Slam, having won all major international junior and senior titles in the course of his career.

He is also the only male single skater besides German Jan Hoffmann to win seven world championship medals in the post-war era since 1946.

He was also featured in prestigious lists, such as Forbes' 30 Under 30 Asia (2018), and made it to ESPN's top 10 selection of the greatest Olympians of the 21st century in 2024.

Yuzuru Hanyu has scored 19 world records in international competition, the most among single skaters since the introduction of the ISU Judging System in 2003.

At the 2015 NHK Trophy and the 2015–16 Grand Prix Final, he set new highest scores in all segments at back-to-back events.

[4] People's Honor Award Japan Medals of Honor Kikuchi Kan Prize Laureus World Sports Awards ISU Skating Awards Japanese Olympic Committee Japan Skating Federation Kozuki Sports Awards Waseda University Public Relations Society of Japan (PRSJ) Media Municipality The Career Super Grand Slam or Super Slam is an achievement of winning all major international figure skating events in a discipline at junior and senior level, namely the Winter Olympics, the senior and junior World Championships, the Four Continents or European Championships as well as the senior and junior Grand Prix Final at any point in the course of a career.

[note 4] By the end of his competitive career, Hanyu held the event record score for the men's short program and combined total at the Four Continents Championships.

[131] Hanyu's solo triple Axel jump received a perfect score ten times, the most among all elements.

He was awarded a perfect score for twelve technical elements and maximum grades of execution for another three step sequences that were not credited with the full base value due to level downgrades.

The five components until the 2022–23 season were skating skills (SS), transitions (TR), performance (PE), composition (CO), and interpretation (IN).

[133][134] By the end of his competitive career, Hanyu held the current and historical Japanese national record scores in all three segments of the senior men's singles discipline.

[12] By the end of his competitive career in 2022, only five other skaters have scored above 300 points in total, namely Javier Fernández, Nathan Chen, Jin Boyang, Shoma Uno, and Yuma Kagiyama.