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Shizuka Arakawa (荒川 静香 Arakawa Shizuka born December 29 1981) is a Japanese figure skater. She is the 2006 Olympic Champion and the 2004 World Champion. Arakawa is the first Japanese skater to win an Olympic gold medal in figure skating and the second Japanese skater to win any Olympic medal in figure skating after Midori Ito who won silver in 1992. She is also the second Japanese woman to win a gold medal at the Winter Olympics following skier Tae Satoya.

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height (cm)
1.65
active years end year
2006-01-01T00:00:00+02:00
birth date
1981-12-29
country
Japan
former coach
Kumiko Sato, Richard Callaghan, Tatiana Tarasova, Evgeni Platov, Nikolai Morozov (figure skater), Minoru Sano, Hiroshi Nagakubo, Nanami_Abe
residence
Simsbury Connecticut

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