Japanese skater Satoko Miyahara performs in individual skating. The athlete is a silver medalist at the 2015 world championship. She became the champion and two-time vice champion of the Four Continents. Twice the girl won national competitions among juniors and four times took gold at the national championship.
Japanese loner Satoko Miyahara in 2013 won the Asian Cup.
The beginning of the road to victory
The biography of the future celebrity began in 1998. The child was born in Kyoto on March 26 in a family of doctors. His father was involved in the treatment of pulmonary diseases, his mother became famous as a researcher of blood diseases. Young people met in the hospital, where both worked.
They became husband and wife officially, and a year later they had a daughter. The girl rarely saw parents, since both all the time gave up work in the hospital. Satoko spent all days in a kindergarten near their place of activity. In the evenings, her grandparents took her home.
With a four-year-old baby, the adults moved to Texas. Parents were invited to the United States to study cancer issues at the University of Houston. Thanks to a freer schedule, parents got time to raise their daughter. Satoko did not show any inclination for future creativity. Therefore, the father showed the baby the simplest elements of figure skating during a visit to one of the shopping centers, where they all went to appear together.
The girl perfectly remembered the lesson and repeated everything herself on the next visit. Surprised by her daughter's predisposition to a beautiful sport, adults took her to the figure skating school. A smart, but very timid student was immediately determined for individual lessons. Gradually, from a normal hobby, sports moved into the category of real work. Now, strict restrictions have been added to constant training.
New successes
Three years later, the family returned to the Land of the Rising Sun. At home, Satoko did not stop practicing figure skating. She demonstrated phenomenal results. The young athlete worked for a long time, perfecting complex elements, and persistently brought skating to the ideal. The trainers were struck by the fact that the girl far exceeded her age category. Three times the figure skater participated in competitions among juniors. In 2013, Miyahara won the bronze at the national championship.
The following year was the time for a debut at the Four Continents Championship in Taipei. Satoko not only defeated all competitors, but also impressed the judges with a silver medal. In 2015, in Seoul, at a similar championship, the girl again became the second.
Thanks to constant training, the athlete became one of the participants declared for the world championship in Shanghai. The third result was a short original program. The figure skater's own expectations exceeded her free performances. Once again, Satoko became the silver medalist. In the team championship, the figure skater became the third.
In the new season of 2015 in the United States, Miyahara won in Salt Lake City. A month later, at a competition in Milwaukee at the Skate America Grand Prix, the young skater received bronze. The final stage of the Grand Prix in Nagano provided her with gold.
Failures and accomplishments
In the final of the competition in Barcelona, the skater did not expect to rise above the fourth position. Miyahara had such prospects after a short program. However, an arbitrary performance brought the girl to second place. Then there was a second victory at the national championship and excellent results of the championship in Taiwan.
In Boston, Miyahara was named among the 5 best singles in the world. The judges awarded her the title of Asian championship athlete. The pre-Olympic season began with the presentation of gold in Salt Lake City, bronze in the Federation Cup, silver in Sapporo at the Grand Prix. An athlete climbed to the second step of the podium. At the Marseille Grand Prix. Again, the first Satoko was in the national championship.
Injury prevented the girl from competing in the 2017 continental championship, I had to miss the world championship and the Asian tournament. Only by the end of the year the skater was able to reappear on ice. She confidently performed at the home series, but did not rise on the podium. The first among all the participants, the girl became at competitions in America.
The skater represented the country at the final in Nagoya. After the failure at this tournament, fans were pleased with the victory in the national competition. Bronze brought a continental tournament.
The athlete demonstrated very good prospects before the opening of the South Korean Olympics. In the team competition, several steps separated the Japanese from the prize position. The national team climbed to fifth place.
