Tae Satoya
| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
| Women's freestyle skiing | ||
| Representing Japan | ||
| Olympic Games | ||
| Gold medal – first place | 1998 Nagano | Moguls |
| Bronze medal – third place | 2002 Salt Lake City | Moguls |
Tae Satoya (里谷 多英, Satoya Tae, born June 12, 1976, in Sapporo) is a Japanese freestyle skier. She won the Olympic title in the moguls event at the 1998 Winter Olympics, and she finished third at the 2002 games.[1]
Olympic career
Satoya became the first Japanese woman to earn a gold medal in the Winter Olympics after winning a gold medal in the Moguls event at the 1998 Nagano Olympics.
Satoya went on to win a further Bronze medal at the Moguls event in 2002 at Salt Lake City.
She also competed at the 2006 Winter Olympics where she finished in 15th place,[2] and finally in the 2010 Olympics where, reportedly suffering from back problems she finished 19th after falling on her last jump.[3]
Scandal
Satoya was banned by the Ski Association of Japan from participating in the 2005 Freestyle World Ski Championships in Finland following a scandal resulting from an arrest at a Roppongi nightclub[2]
References
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Tae Satoya". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 3 December 2016.
- ^ a b Mark D. West (2007). Secrets, Sex, and Spectacle: The Rules of Scandal in Japan and the United States, page 218. University of Chicago Press, ISBN 978-0-226-89408-9
- ^ Uemura won't hold back in bid for moguls medal, The Japan Times, japantimes.co.jp. Retrieved 13 February 2010.
External links
- Tae Satoya at the International Ski and Snowboard Federation Edit this at Wikidata
- Tae Satoya at Olympedia Edit this at Wikidata
- Tae Satoya at Olympics.com
- Tae Satoya – Salt Lake 2002 at Team Japan (in Japanese) (in English)
- Tae Satoya – Nagano 1998 at Team Japan (in Japanese) (in English)
- Official website at the Wayback Machine (archived June 12, 2010)
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