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Etsuko Inada
Japanese figure skater From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Etsuko Inada (稲田 悦子, Inada Etsuko; Hiragana: いなだ えつこ; February 8, 1924 – July 8, 2003)[1] was a Japanese figure skater who mostly competed in singles. She was the first female athlete to represent Japan at the Winter Olympics.[2]
Inada began skating at eight years old.[3] She was a seven-time Japanese national champion and represented Japan at the 1936 Winter Olympics at the age of 12.[4] While competing there, she wore a costume given to her by the Japanese Women's Association of Berlin.[2]
After the war, she married and had a son. She returned to competitive skating and won a competition shortly before the planned 1949 Japanese national championships, but the national championships were cancelled due to the weather becoming too warm.[5] Her last competition was the 1951 World Figure Skating Championships.
Later in her life, she opened a store in Aoyama, Tokyo and coached at a rink in front of the Prince Chichibu Memorial Sports Museum, which holds her costume from the Olympics in its collection.[6][7] Her students included Olympic skaters Miwa Fukuhara, Junko Hiramatsu, and Haruko Okamoto. She died in 2003 from stomach cancer.[3]
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