Yuhana Yokoi

Yuhana Yokoi
Yokoi at the 2018 World Junior Championships
Native name	横井 ゆは菜
Born	(2000-05-19) May 19, 2000 (age 24) Nagoya, Japan
Height	1.57 m (5 ft 2 in)
Figure skating career
Country	Japan
Coach	Yoriko Naruse Miho Kawaume Yuko Hongo
Skating club	Chukyo University
Began skating	2008
Retired	December 24, 2022

Yuhana Yokoi (Japanese: 横井 ゆは菜; born May 19, 2000) is a retired Japanese figure skater. She is the 2019 CS Finlandia Trophy bronze medalist and the 2020 Challenge Cup silver medalist. At the junior level, she is the 2018 JGP Armenia bronze medalist, and two-time Japanese Junior national medalist. She finished within the top ten at two World Junior Championships (2018, 2019).

Personal life

Yokoi was born on May 19, 2000 in Nagoya, Japan.^[1] Her sister, Kinayu, who is four years younger than her, is also a competitive figure skater.^[2][3]

Yokoi studied at the School of Sport Sciences at Chukyo University.^[4]

Career

Early years

Yokoi began learning to skate in 2008.^[5] She made her ISU Junior Grand Prix debut in September 2014, placing sixth in Nagoya, Japan. At the 2015–16 Japan Championships, she won bronze in the junior event and finished eleventh in the senior event.^[6]

2017–18 season

At the 2017–18 Japan Championships, Yokoi finished fourth in the junior event and eighth in the senior event. In March, she competed at the 2018 World Junior Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria. Ranked eighth in the short and fourth in the free, she finished sixth overall.^[6]

2018–19 season

In October, Yokoi won bronze at the ISU Junior Grand Prix in Armenia. In November, she became Japan's junior national champion.^[7][8] She finished seventh competing in the senior ranks at the 2018–19 Japan Championships in December.^[6]

In March, she placed eighteenth in the short, eighth in the free, and ninth overall at the 2019 World Junior Championships in Zagreb, Croatia.^[6]

In April, she was invited to skate in the gala at the 2019 World Team Trophy as the Japan junior national champion.

2019–20 season

In October, making her senior international debut, Yokoi won the bronze medal at the 2019 CS Finlandia Trophy. In November, she competed at two Grand Prix events, placing sixth at the 2019 Rostelecom Cup and fourth at the 2019 NHK Trophy. The following month, she finished fifth at the 2019–20 Japan Championships.^[6]

In February 2020, Yokoi won silver at the International Challenge Cup in The Hague, Netherlands.^[6]

2020–21 season

With the COVID-19 pandemic limiting international competitions, Yokoi was assigned to compete at the 2020 NHK Trophy, which was attended almost exclusively by Japanese skaters. She was fifth in the short program, her only error being an under-rotation on her solo triple flip jump.^[9] In the free skate, she made several errors, finishing eighth in that segment and dropping to eighth place overall.^[10]

Yokoi placed eighth at the 2020–21 Japan Championships.^[6]

2021–22 season

Yokoi placed eleventh at the 2021 Skate America, her lone Grand Prix assignment.^[6] She was ninth at the 2021 Internationaux de France, saying that she was very pleased with her free skate: "I still wonder if I should continue, and when I have a good performance, I am truly happy, and that is why it keeps me going. Today's good performance made me feel that I might be able to continue."^[11] 

At the 2021–22 Japan Championships, Yokoi placed twelfth.^[6] She was named to the Japanese team for the 2022 Four Continents Championships, where she finished in seventh.^[12]

2022–23 season

In her lone Grand Prix assignment of the year, Yokoi finished eighth at the 2022 Skate Canada International.^[6] After coming nineteenth at the 2022–23 Japan Championships, she announced her retirement from competitive skating.^[13]

Programs

Season	Short program	Free skating	Exhibition
2022–2023 [1]	Kalandéro (from Alegría) by Rene Dupere choreo. by Misao Sato	Hungarian Rhapsody by Franz Liszt choreo. by Akiko Suzuki
2021–2022 [14]	Malagueña by Ernesto Lecuona choreo. by Kenji Miyamoto	Fat Bottomed Girls We Will Rock You We Are the Champions by Queen choreo. by Kenji Miyamoto
2020–2021 [15]	Nandemonaiya by Yojiro Noda choreo. by Akiko Suzuki	Tom and Jerry by Scott Bradley choreo. by Misao Sato
2019–2020 [5][16]	Ten Dark Women by Shu Kanematsu choreo. by Misao Sato	The Phantom of the Opera Angel of Music performed by Sarah Brightman All I Ask of You performed by Sarah Brightman and Michael Crawford by Andrew Lloyd Webber choreo. by Miho Kawaume	Never Enough by Loren Allred
2018–2019 [17]	The Lion King by Hans Zimmer choreo. by Miho Kawaume	The Phantom of the Opera Angel of Music performed by Sarah Brightman All I Ask of You performed by Sarah Brightman and Michael Crawford by Andrew Lloyd Webber choreo. by Miho Kawaume	Never Enough by Loren Allred
2017–2018 [18]	The Lion King by Hans Zimmer choreo. by Miho Kawaume	Burlesque You Haven't Seen the Last of Me by Cher Welcome to Burlesque by Cher Show Me How You Burlesque by Christina Aguilera choreo. by Akiko Suzuki
2016–2017	The Sound of Music The Sound of Music My Favorite Things Climb Ev'ry Mountain by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II choreo. by Yuko Hongo	Burlesque You Haven't Seen the Last of Me by Cher Welcome to Burlesque by Cher Show Me How You Burlesque by Christina Aguilera choreo. by Akiko Suzuki
2015–2016	The Sound of Music The Sound of Music My Favorite Things Climb Ev'ry Mountain by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II choreo. by Yuko Hongo	Malagueña choreo. by Yuko Hongo
2014–2015 [19]	Masquerade: Waltz by Aram Khachaturian choreo. by Yuko Hongo	Gypsy music choreo. by Yuko Hongo

Competitive highlights

GP: Grand Prix; CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix

International[6]
Event	10–11	11–12	12–13	13–14	14–15	15–16	16–17	17–18	18–19	19–20	20–21	21–22	22–23
Four Continents												7th
GP France												9th
GP NHK Trophy										4th	8th
GP Rostelecom Cup										6th
GP Skate America												11th
GP Skate Canada													8th
CS Finlandia Trophy										3rd
CS Warsaw Cup												WD
Challenge Cup										2nd
International: Junior[6]
Junior Worlds								6th	9th
JGP Armenia									3rd
JGP Japan					6th
JGP Latvia								5th
JGP Slovakia									6th
Challenge Cup								2nd	1st
International: Advanced novice[20]
Gardena Spring			2nd
National[20][21]
Japan Champ.						11th		8th	7th	5th	8th	12th	19th
Japan Junior				12th	26th	3rd	8th	4th	1st
Japan Novice			6th A
Western Sect.				9th J	4th J	1st J	5th J	5th J	1st J	1st	7th
Chubu Reg.	8th B		4th A	2nd J	1st J	1st J	1st J	1st J	1st J	2nd	4th	2nd	3rd
Team events
Japan Open											1st T 4th P
TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew Levels: A = Novice A; J = Junior T = Team result; P = Personal result. Medals awarded for team result only.

Detailed results

ISU Personal best highlighted in bold.

Senior

2022–23 season
Date	Event	SP	FS	Total
December 21–25, 2022	2022–23 Japan Championships	12 59.78	20 102.09	19 161.87
October 28–30, 2022	2022 Skate Canada	12 54.87	5 123.86	8 178.73
2021–22 season
Date	Event	SP	FS	Total
January 18–23, 2022	2022 Four Continents Championships	12 53.93	6 131.41	7 185.34
December 22–26, 2021	2021–22 Japan Championships	14 59.84	9 124.00	12 183.84
November 19–21, 2021	2021 Internationaux de France	11 52.32	7 124.61	9 176.93
October 22–24, 2021	2021 Skate America	12 54.77	10 119.30	11 174.07
2020–21 season
Date	Event	SP	FS	Total
December 24–27, 2020	2020–21 Japan Championships	16 59.83	6 134.39	8 194.22
November 27–29, 2020	2020 NHK Trophy	5 65.18	8 111.31	8 176.49
2019–20 season
Date	Event	SP	FS	Total
February 20–23, 2020	2020 Challenge Cup	2 73.29	2 141.27	2 214.56
December 18–22, 2019	2019–20 Japan Championships	9 62.90	4 128.02	5 190.92
November 22–24, 2019	2019 NHK Trophy	8 62.67	4 126.87	4 189.54
November 15–17, 2019	2019 Rostelecom Cup	10 56.51	5 126.17	6 182.68
October 11–13, 2019	2019 CS Finlandia Trophy	3 65.09	3 126.81	3 191.90

Junior

2018–19 season
Date	Event	Level	SP	FS	Total
March 4–10, 2019	2019 World Junior Championships	Junior	18 51.61	8 118.56	9 170.17
February 21–24, 2019	2019 Challenge Cup	Junior	1 53.63	1 126.27	1 179.90
December 20–24, 2018	2018–19 Japan Championships	Senior	6 66.27	6 130.10	7 196.37
November 23–25, 2018	2018–19 Japan Junior Championships	Junior	1 61.86	1 119.98	1 181.84
October 10–13, 2018	2018 JGP Armenia	Junior	6 57.62	2 126.47	3 184.09
August 22–25, 2018	2018 JGP Slovakia	Junior	9 51.65	2 121.50	6 173.15
2017–18 season
Date	Event	Level	SP	FS	Total
March 5–11, 2018	2018 World Junior Championships	Junior	8 59.81	4 124.97	6 184.78
February 22–25, 2018	2018 Challenge Cup	Junior	4 54.09	2 115.62	2 169.71
December 20–24, 2017	2017–18 Japan Championships	Senior	9 62.68	6 130.31	8 192.99
November 24–26, 2017	2017–18 Japan Junior Championships	Junior	7 56.89	3 116.08	4 172.97
September 6–9, 2017	2017 JGP Latvia	Junior	5 55.19	3 114.40	5 169.59
2016–17 season
Date	Event	Level	SP	FS	Total
November 18–20, 2016	2016–17 Japan Junior Championships	Junior	10 52.28	7 110.56	8 162.84
2015–16 season
Date	Event	Level	SP	FS	Total
December 24, 2015	2015–16 Japan Junior Championships	Junior	4 60.16	3 117.24	3 177.40
2015–16 season
Date	Event	Level	SP	FS	Total
November 22, 2014	2014–15 Japan Junior Championships	Junior	26 41.27		26 41.27
2013–14 season
Date	Event	Level	SP	FS	Total
November 22, 2013	2013–14 Japan Junior Championships	Junior	23 40.84	9 95.89	12 136.73

References

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External links

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