Yuhana Yokoi (; 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. Her sister, Kinayu, who is four years younger than her, is also a competitive figure skater.
Yokoi studied at the School of Sport Sciences at Chukyo University.
Career Early years Yokoi began learning to skate in 2008. 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.
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.
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. She finished seventh competing in the senior ranks at the 2018–19 Japan Championships in December.
In March, she placed eighteenth in the short, eighth in the free, and ninth overall at the 2019 World Junior Championships in Zagreb, Croatia.
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.
In February 2020, Yokoi won silver at the International Challenge Cup in The Hague, Netherlands.
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. In the free skate, she made several errors, finishing eighth in that segment and dropping to eighth place overall.
Yokoi placed eighth at the 2020–21 Japan Championships.
2021–22 season Yokoi placed eleventh at the 2021 Skate America, her lone Grand Prix assignment. 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."
At the 2021–22 Japan Championships, Yokoi placed twelfth. She was named to the Japanese team for the 2022 Four Continents Championships, where she finished in seventh.
2022–23 season In her lone Grand Prix assignment of the year, Yokoi finished eighth at the 2022 Skate Canada International. After coming nineteenth at the 2022–23 Japan Championships, she announced her retirement from competitive skating.
Programs Season Short program Free skating Exhibition 2022–2023 Kalandéro Hungarian Rhapsody 2021–2022 Malagueña Fat Bottomed Girls We Will Rock You We Are the Champions 2020–2021 Nandemonaiya Tom and Jerry 2019–2020 Ten Dark Women The Phantom of the Opera Angel of Music All I Ask of You Never Enough 2018–2019 The Lion King 2017–2018 Burlesque You Haven't Seen the Last of Me Welcome to Burlesque Show Me How You Burlesque 2016–2017The Sound of Music The Sound of Music My Favorite Things Climb Ev'ry Mountain 2015–2016 Malagueña 2014–2015 Masquerade: Waltz Gypsy music
Competitive highlights GP: Grand Prix; CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix
International 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 France 9th NHK Trophy 4th 8th Rostelecom Cup 6th Skate America 11th Skate Canada 8th Finlandia Trophy 3rd Warsaw Cup WD Challenge Cup 2nd International: Junior Junior Worlds 6th 9th Armenia 3rd Japan 6th Latvia 5th Slovakia 6th Challenge Cup 2nd 1st International: Advanced novice Gardena Spring 2nd National 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 T4th 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
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