Yuka Sato
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| Kanji | 佐藤 有香 | ||||
| Kana | さとう ゆか | ||||
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| Romanization | Satō Yuka |
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Sato in 2011.
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| Country represented | Japan | ||||||||||||||||||
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February 14, 1973 Tokyo, Japan |
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| Height | 1.52 m (5 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Former coach | Nobuo Sato, Kumiko Sato, Peter Dunfield | ||||||||||||||||||
| Skating club | Detroit Skating Club | ||||||||||||||||||
| Retired | 1994 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Yuka Sato (佐藤 有香 Satō Yuka?, born February 14, 1973) is a Japanese former competitive figure skater. She is the 1994 World champion, the 1990 World Junior champion and the 1993 & 1994 Japanese national champion. She placed 7th at the 1992 Winter Olympics and 5th at the 1994 Winter Olympics.
Yuka Sato was born in Tokyo to figure skating parents. Her father, Nobuo Sato, competed at the 1960 Winter Olympics and 1964 Winter Olympics while her mother, Kumiko Okawa, competed in the 1964 Winter Olympics and 1968 Winter Olympics. Her parents, as of 2011, live near Yokohama.
Sato is a graduate of Hosei University. She was married to fellow figure skater Jason Dungjen from 1999 to 2013.
In the 1988–89 season, Yuka Sato won the Japanese junior title to qualify for the 1989 World Junior Championships, where she placed 10th. She also qualified for Japan's senior championships, where she won the bronze medal behind Midori Ito and Junko Yaginuma. Sato was taught by her parents in Japan until she was 16. Around 1989, she moved to Canada and joined Peter Dunfield, who coached her for the next five years.
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