Sōta Yamamoto

Sota Yamamoto

Personal information
Native name 山本草太
Country represented Japan
Born (2000-01-10) January 10, 2000
Kishiwada, Osaka, Japan
Home town Nagoya, Japan
Height 1.67 m (5 ft 5 1⁄2 in)
Coach Hiroshi Nagakubo, Yoriko Naruse, Miho Kawaume
Former coach Yoshinori Onishi, Yusuke Hayashi
Choreographer Kenji Miyamoto
Former choreographer Yuko Hongo
Skating club Aichi Mizuho High School
Training locations Nagoya
Began skating 2006
ISU personal best scores
Combined total 232.42
2015 JGP Poland
Short program 76.14
2014 JGP Final
Free skate 157.26
2015 JGP Poland
Medal record
Competitor for  Japan
Figure skating: Men's singles
Winter Youth Olympics
2016 Lillehammer Men's singles
World Junior Championships
2015 Tallinn Men's singles
Junior Grand Prix Final
2014–15 Barcelona Men's singles
2015–16 Barcelona Men's singles

Sōta Yamamoto (山本 草太 Yamamoto Sōta, born 10 January 2000) is a Japanese figure skater. He is the 2016 Youth Olympic champion, the 2015 World Junior bronze medalist, a two-time Junior Grand Prix Final medalist (silver in 2014, bronze in 2015), and the 2015 Japan junior national champion.

Career

2013–14 season

Yamamoto debuted on the ISU Junior Grand Prix series in 2013–14 season, placing 11th in Riga, Latvia, his sole assignment. At the Japan Championships, he was 5th in the junior competition and 14th at the senior event.

2014–15 season

Yamamoto at the 2014–15 JGP Final

During the 2014–15 JGP series, Yamamoto won silver medals in Courchevel, France and Tallinn, Estonia, which qualified him to the 2014–15 JGP Final in Barcelona, Spain. Ranked first in the short program and third in the free skate, he finished second overall, behind Shoma Uno and ahead of Alexander Petrov. Nationally, he was the junior silver medalist, behind Shoma Uno, and finished 6th at the senior event. At the 2015 World Junior Championships, Yamamoto placed 7th in the short program and 3rd in the free skate to win the bronze medal in his first appearance at that competition.

2015–16 season

Competing in the 2015–16 ISU Junior Grand Prix, Yamamoto won the bronze medal in Colorado Springs, Colorado and gold in Toruń, Poland. These results qualified him for the 2015–16 JGP Final, where he was awarded the bronze medal. He won his first junior national title at the 2015 Japanese Junior Championships.

In February 2016, Yamamoto won the gold medal in the men's singles discipline at the Winter Youth Olympics ahead of Latvia's Deniss Vasiljevs and Russia's Dmitri Aliev. He fractured his right ankle in practice on March 12, causing him to withdraw from the 2016 World Junior Championships in Debrecen.[1]

Programs

Season Short program Free skating Exhibition
2015–2016
[2][3][4][5]
2014–2015
[6]
2013–2014
[7]

Competitive highlights

Yamamoto at the 2015–16 Junior Grand Prix Final podium

JGP: Junior Grand Prix

International[8]
Event 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16
Youth Olympics 1st
Junior Worlds 3rd WD
JGP Final 2nd 3rd
JGP Estonia 2nd
JGP France 2nd
JGP Poland 11th 1st
JGP Latvia 11th
JGP United States 3rd
Printemps 1st J.
Asian Trophy 2nd N. 2nd N.
Triglav Trophy 1st N. 1st N.
National[9]
Japan Champ. 14th 6th 6th
Japan Junior 11th 4th 5th 2nd 1st
Levels: N. = Novice, J. = Junior
WD: Withdrew

References

  1. ↑ "山本が世界ジュニア欠場　練習中に右足首骨折／フィギュア" [Yamamoto fractures right ankle in practice, will miss Junior Worlds] (in Japanese). Sanspo. 10 March 2016. Archived from the original on 12 March 2016.
  2. ↑ Dreams on Ice 2015 (Television production) (in Japanese). Japan: Fuji TV. 22 June 2015.
  3. ↑ フィギュアスケート [Figure Skate TV!] (in Japanese). Japan. 12 July 2015. BS Fuji.
  4. ↑ "Sota YAMAMOTO: 2015/2016". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on August 29, 2015.
  5. ↑ Xiong, Wei (August 29, 2015). "Sota Yamamoto sets sights on Junior World title". Golden Skate.
  6. ↑ "Sota YAMAMOTO: 2014/2015". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on August 20, 2015.
  7. ↑ "Sota YAMAMOTO: 2013/2014". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on June 22, 2014.
  8. ↑ "Competition Results: Sota YAMAMOTO". International Skating Union.
  9. ↑ "山本 草太 / YAMAMOTO Sota" (in Japanese). Japan Skating Federation. Archived from the original on October 4, 2014.

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