Shizuka Arakawa

Shizuka Arakawa (Japanese: 荒川静香)) is a figure skater from Japan. She went to the Olympics in 1998 for the first time at age 16. They were held in Nagano, Japan. She won the gold medal in single skating at the Olympics in 2006. That was the only medal for Japan at the 2006 Olympics. She also won the World Championships in 2004.

Shizuka Arakawa Media

Olympic Rings without "rims" (gaps between the rings), As used, eg. in the logos of the 2008 and 2016 Olympics. The colour scheme applied here pertains to the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
Arakawa performs a donut spin at the 2003 Skate Canada International in her free skate to Violin Fantasy on the opera Turandot.
Arakawa performs a Kerrigan spiral in her exhibition to "Memory" from Cats at the 2004 NHK Trophy.
Arakawa on the podium at the 2004 NHK Trophy.

Other websites

Shizuka-Arakawa.com
International Skating Union page Archived 2008-05-14 at the Wayback Machine

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