Yukina Ota

Yukina Ota
Ota at the 2004 Four Continents Championships.
Personal information
Alternative names	Yukina Ohta
Country represented	Japan
Born	November 26, 1986 Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture
Height	1.58 m (5 ft 2 in)
Former coach	Mie Hamada
Former choreographer	Tom Dickson
Skating club	Kyoto Daigo FSC
Began skating	1993
Retired	November 26, 2008
ISU personal best scores
Combined total	162.59 2003 Skate Canada
Short program	63.90 2003 Skate Canada
Free skate	98.69 2003 Skate Canada
Medal record Representing  Japan Ladies' singles Figure skating Four Continents Championships 2004 Hamilton Ladies' singles World Junior Championships 2003 Ostrava Ladies' singles ISU Junior Grand Prix Final 2002–2003 The Hague Ladies' singles

Yukina Ōta (太田 由希奈 Ōta Yukina, born November 26, 1986 in Kyoto) is a Japanese figure skater. She is the 2003 World Junior champion and the 2004 Four Continents champion. She announced her retirement from competitive skating in November 2008, due to injury.

Career

Ota won the bronze medal at the 2000–2001 Japan Junior Championships. In the 2001–2002 season, Ota made her Junior Grand Prix debut. She won her event in Bulgaria and placed 4th at the event in Sweden to qualify for the Junior Grand Prix Final, where she placed 6th. She won a second bronze medal at the 2001–2002 Japan Junior Championships, which qualified her for the 2002 Junior Worlds. She placed 9th at that competition. In the 2002–2003 season, Ota competed on the 2002–2003 ISU Junior Grand Prix circuit. She won both her events to qualify for the Junior Grand Prix Final, which she won. She placed fourth at the Japan Championships and qualified for Junior Worlds. She won the 2003 World Junior title. In the 2003–2004 season, Ota made her senior international debut. She competed on the Grand Prix of Figure Skating. She placed 4th at the 2003 Skate Canada International and 6th at the 2003 NHK Trophy. At the Japan Championships, Ota placed fifth. She competed at the 2004 Four Continents and won the event after placing third in the short program and second in the free skate.^[1] In the 2004–2005 season, Ota competed again on the senior international circuit. She placed 7th at the 2004 Skate America.

Ota missed the 2005–2006 season due to injury. In the 2006–2007 season, Ota began competing again. She placed 12th at the Japan Championships. In the 2007–2008 season, Ota competed at the 2007 Golden Spin of Zagreb international competition and placed 7th. At the Japan Championship, she placed 7th. Ota withdrew from events to qualify for the 2008–2009 Japan Championships before they began.

She announced her retirement from competitive skating on November 26, 2008, her 22nd birthday, due to injury. Following her retirement, she has skated professionally in ice shows.

Programs

Season	Short program	Free skating	Exhibition
2007–2008	Madame Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini	Concierto de Aranjuez by Joaquín Rodrigo
2006–2007	Swan Lake by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky	El amor brujo by Manuel de Falla	Anytime, Anywhere by Sarah Brightman
2005–2006			Anytime, Anywhere by Sarah Brightman
2004–2005 [2]	Tzigane by Maurice Ravel	Madame Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini	Anytime, Anywhere by Sarah Brightman
2003–2004 [3][1]	Picasso's Dance Omotai (from Between Black and White)	Daphnis and Chloe by Maurice Ravel	Last Dance by Donna Summer
2002–2003 [4]	Danse macabre by Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns	Turandot by Giacomo Puccini performed by Vanessa-Mae	Twilight Waltz by Takashi Kako
2001–2002 [5]	Poeta by Vicente Amigo	Turandot by Giacomo Puccini performed by Vanessa-Mae
2000–2001	Tango from Cirque du Soleil	West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein

Results

Results[6]
International
Event	1998–99	1999–00	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04	2004–05	2006–07	2007–08
Four Continents						1st
GP NHK Trophy						6th
GP Skate America							7th
GP Skate Canada						4th
Golden Spin									4th
International: Junior
Junior Worlds				9th	1st
JGP Final				6th	1st
JGP Bulgaria				1st
JGP Italy					1st
JGP Sweden				4th
JGP Yugoslavia					1st
National
Japan Champ.					4th	5th		12th	7th
Japan Junior	11th	6th	3rd	3rd
GP = Grand Prix; JGP = Junior Grand Prix; WD = Withdrew Ota did not compete in the 2005–2006 season.

References

1. Mittan, Barry (February 11, 2004). "Japan’s Artistic Yukina Ota". Golden Skate.
2. "Yukina OTA: 2004/2005". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on March 5, 2005.
3. "Yukina OTA: 2003/2004". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on June 15, 2004.
4. "Yukina OTA: 2002/2003". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on April 2, 2003.
5. "Yukina OTA: 2001/2002". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on June 12, 2002.
6. "Competition Results: Yukina OHTA". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on October 12, 2012.

External links

• Yukina Ota at the International Skating Union