Tae Satoya (里谷 多英, Satoya Tae, born June 12, 1976, in Sapporo) is a Japanese freestyle skier. She won the Olympic title in the moguls event at the 1998 Winter Olympics, and she finished third at the 2002 games.[1]

Olympic career

Satoya became the first Japanese woman to earn a gold medal in the Winter Olympics after winning a gold medal in the Moguls event at the 1998 Nagano Olympics.

Satoya went on to win a further Bronze medal at the Moguls event in 2002 at Salt Lake City.

She also competed at the 2006 Winter Olympics where she finished in 15th place,[2] and finally in the 2010 Olympics where, reportedly suffering from back problems she finished 19th after falling on her last jump.[3]

Scandal

Satoya was banned by the Ski Association of Japan from participating in the 2005 Freestyle World Ski Championships in Finland following a scandal resulting from an arrest at a Roppongi nightclub[2]

References

  1. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Tae Satoya". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 3 December 2016.
  2. ^ a b Mark D. West (2007). Secrets, Sex, and Spectacle: The Rules of Scandal in Japan and the United States, page 218. University of Chicago Press, ISBN 978-0-226-89408-9
  3. ^ Uemura won't hold back in bid for moguls medal, The Japan Times, japantimes.co.jp. Retrieved 13 February 2010.


Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tae_Satoya
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