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Satoko Miyahara

Satoko Miyahara
World Championships 2015 – Ladies (Satoko MIYAHARA JPN – Silver Medal).jpg
Miyahara at the 2015 World Championships
Personal information
Native name 宮原 知子
Country represented Japan
Born (1998-03-26) March 26, 1998 (age 19)
Kyoto, Japan
Height 1.49 m (4 ft 10 12 in)
Coach Mie Hamada, Yamato Tamura, Yoko Niino
Choreographer Tom Dickson, Lori Nichol, Jeffrey Buttle, Stéphane Lambiel
Former choreographer Lori Bonviverel, Kenji Miyamoto
Skating club Kansai University SC
Training locations Takatsuki, Osaka
Began skating 2002
World standing 2 (As of 30 January 2017)
ISU personal best scores
Combined total 218.33
2016–17 Grand Prix Final
Short program 74.64
2016–17 Grand Prix Final
Free skate 143.69
2016–17 Grand Prix Final

Satoko Miyahara (宮原 知子 Miyahara Satoko?, born March 26, 1998) is a Japanese figure skater. She is the 2015 World silver medalist, a two-time Grand Prix Final silver medalist, the 2016 Four Continents champion, and a three-time Japanese national champion (2014–2016).

Miyahara was born on March 26, 1998 in Kyoto, Japan. Her parents are both doctors. Due to her parents' work, she moved with her family to Houston, Texas when she was five years old and had returned to Kyoto by the age of seven. Miyahara learned English during her time in the United States.

On February 13, 2016, Miyahara graduated from Kansai University High School. She has stated her plans to attend Kansai University and major in literature as well as continuing to study English.

Miyahara began skating while she was living in the United States and came under the guidance of Mie Hamada in Kyoto, Japan at the age of seven.

Miyahara became eligible for junior international competition in the 2011–12 season. She won a silver medal at her Junior Grand Prix debut in Gdańsk, Poland, and finished fifth at her second event in Milan, Italy. Miyahara then won the Japan junior title and placed sixth on the senior level. She was fourth at her first World Junior Championships.


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