Name : Occupation : Date of Birth : Height: : Blood Type : Birth Place : Graduated from : Hobbies : ISU Personal Best Scores :   Shizuka Arakawa (Prince Hotels) Professional Figure Skater December 29th, 1981 5’5 O Tokyo Waseda University Music and Shopping SP: 66.02 (2006 Olympics) FP: 125.32 (2006 Olympics)

Shizuka began skating when she was five. She went to the ice rink and saw the kids with cute costumes. She thought “I want to wear that pretty costumes “. This is why she started skating. She landed her first triple salchow when she was eight, and called “Child Genius”. She was the first skater in Japan to win three consecutive junior national titles. She won Japanese national in 1998 and 1999. When she was sixteen years old, she represented Japan in the 1998 Ngano Winter Olympics and finished at 13th. She won the Asian Winter Games and Winter Universiade during the 2002-2003 season. The following season, she won the 2004 World Championships in Dortmund, Germany. At the 2006 Winter Turin Olympics, she broke her personal best scores both in short program and free skating, and she became the first Olympic gold medalist in Asia. She is also the first Japanese skater winning both World Championships and Olympics. Shizuka is currently skating as a professional skater in Japan and also different countries. While she is active in charity events and media activities, she is interested in trying different things in a variety of different fields.