Sota Yamamoto
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Yamamoto at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics
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| Native name | 山本草太 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented | Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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January 10, 2000 Kishiwada, Osaka, Japan |
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| Home town | Nagoya, Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.67 m (5 ft 5 1⁄2 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coach | Hiroshi Nagakubo, Yoriko Naruse, Miho Kawaume | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Former coach | Yoshinori Onishi, Yusuke Hayashi | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Choreographer | Kenji Miyamoto | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Former choreographer | Yuko Hongo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Skating club | Aichi Mizuho High School | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Training locations | Nagoya | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Began skating | 2006 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Combined total | 232.42 2015 JGP Poland |
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| Short program | 76.14 2014 JGP Final |
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| Free skate | 157.26 2015 JGP Poland |
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Medal record
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Sōta Yamamoto (山本 草太 Yamamoto Sōta?, born 10 January 2000) is a Japanese figure skater. He is the 2016 Youth Olympic champion, the 2015 World Junior bronze medalist, a two-time Junior Grand Prix Final medalist (silver in 2014, bronze in 2015), and the 2015 Japan junior national champion.
Yamamoto debuted on the ISU Junior Grand Prix series in 2013–14 season, placing 11th in Riga, Latvia, his sole assignment. At the Japan Championships, he was 5th in the junior competition and 14th at the senior event.
During the 2014–15 JGP series, Yamamoto won silver medals in Courchevel, France and Tallinn, Estonia, which qualified him to the 2014–15 JGP Final in Barcelona, Spain. Ranked first in the short program and third in the free skate, he finished second overall, behind Shoma Uno and ahead of Alexander Petrov. Nationally, he was the junior silver medalist, behind Shoma Uno, and finished 6th at the senior event. At the 2015 World Junior Championships, Yamamoto placed 7th in the short program and 3rd in the free skate to win the bronze medal in his first appearance at that competition.
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