Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te Poutu-te-rangi 1999, ka hono atu a Kavaguti ki a Alexander Markuntsov ki te whakataetae mo Japan. I whakangungu ratou i Hackensack me Moskvina me Igor Moskvin hei kaiako me Tatiana Druchinina, Igor Bobrin, me Moskvina hei kaiwaiata. Ko rātau te kapa takirua Hapanihi tuatahi i whiwhi mētara i tētahi whakataetae ISU i a rātau i riro te hiriwa i te
Ko ngā Whakataetae o te Ao Rangatahi i te 2001. I wehe a Kavaguti me Markuntsov i te tau 2003. Ka mea a Kavaguti, "He pai ta maatau mahi mahi engari he tino uaua ki a Alexander te whiwhi taangata Hapanihi, na reira kaore e taea e taatau te tohu i a Japan i nga Orimipia na muri i etahi wa ka whakatau taatau ki te wehe".