Shizuka Arakawa
figure skater
Shizuka Arakawa (Japanese: 荒川 静香)) is a figure skater from Japan. She went to the Olympics in 1998 for the first time at age 16. They were held in Nagano, Japan. She won the gold medal in single skating at the Olympics in 2006. That was the only medal for Japan at the 2006 Olympics. She also won the World Championships in 2004.
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Other websites
change- Shizuka-Arakawa.com
- International Skating Union page Archived 2008-05-14 at the Wayback Machine