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Shizuka Arakawa

Shizuka Arakawa
Shizuka Arakawa, Japanese figure skater and sportscaster

Shizuka Arakawa is a retired Japanese figure skater. She is the 2006 Olympic champion and the 2004 World champion. Arakawa is the first Japanese skater to win an Olympic gold medal in figure skating and the second Japanese skater to win any Olympic medal in figure skating, after Midori Ito, who won silver in 1992. She is also the second Japanese woman to win a gold medal at the Winter Olympics, following skier Tae Satoya. She was the only Japanese medalist at the 2006 Winter Olympics.

29 December 1981

Born on the same birth date (29 December 1981): Anna WoltzJanice Lynn Mather

Born on the same birth day (29 December): Alfred de GraziaAndreas DackellAnna WoltzBranden Jacobs-JenkinsBrian A. HopkinsCharles MacintoshDanny HigginbothamDavid ToplissDerek Ryan (ice hockey)Dina MerrillJane LevyJoe AllbrittonJohannes ZollikoferJon VoightPeter Robinson (Northern Ireland politician)Tyrone BenskinYvonne EllimanZainul Abedin

Born in the same month (December 1981): Agnes MilowkaAndrew WhitworthChristian HolstDavid Moss (ice hockey)Dima BilanEddie KingstonEdwin ValeroFederico BalzarettiGrégory DuferJames Shields (baseball)Jason Kennedy (TV personality)Khalid BoulahrouzMardy FishMario SantanaMarta Fernández (basketball)Moise JosephPatrick SharpRene BourqueTim WieseYuriorkis Gamboa