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Born | September 10, 1999 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Years on national team | 2013 - present | |||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Saints Gymnastics Club | |||||||||||||||||||||
Head coach(es) | Hayami Yuto | |||||||||||||||||||||
Music | 2013: "Diablo Rojo" by Rodrigo y Gabriela 2014-2015: "This is Berk" from How to Train Your Dragon |
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Sae Miyakawa (宮川 紗江? Miyagawa Sae) is a Japanese artistic gymnast. She represented Japan at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics and won a bronze medal on vault. She also competed at the 2015 World Championships where she finished fourth on floor. She was a member of the team that won gold at the 2015 Asian Championships, and individually she won silver on vault and bronze on floor.
Miyakawa made her international debut at the 2013 International Gymix where Japan won the bronze medal in the Junior Cup. At the 2013 Japan Junior International, Miyakawa finished twelfth all-around, fifth on vault, and won a bronze on floor.
Miyakawa began the 2014 season at the City of Jesolo Trophy. The Japanese junior team finished in fourth, and Miyakawa finished seventh all-around with a 53.200. She also finished seventh in the vault and beam event finals. At the Junior Asian Championships, the Japanese team won gold, and Miyakawa won bronze all-around with a 53.650. She also won gold on vault and floor. Miyakawa was selected to compete for Japan at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics. She finished fifth in the all-around final with a 53.300. She won a bronze medal in the vault final behind Wang Yan of China and Ellie Downie of Great Britain. Downie and Miyakawa had tied for second place with 14.566. For the tiebreaker, the highest scoring vault for each gymnast was used to determine who won the silver and who won the bronze. Downie's highest vault score was 14.866, and Miyakawa's was 14.800. Miyakawa ended her junior career at the Élite Gym Massilia where she finished seventh with her team and twenty-eighth all-around.