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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. 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

Competitive highlights

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

Detailed results

ISU Personal best highlighted in bold.

Senior

Junior

References

1. ^ "Yuhana YOKOI: 2022/2023". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 31 October 2022.
2. "お姉ちゃんと走ってきた横井きな結　「眠れる獅子。早く目覚めよ!」". Asahi. Asahi. Retrieved 31 July 2023.
3. "Kinayu YOKOI: 2018/2019". International Skating Union. International Skating Union. Retrieved 31 July 2023.
4. "山本草太選手、横井ゆは菜選手 スケート部の結果を学園首脳陣に報告しました". Chukyo University. Chukyo University. Retrieved 31 July 2023.
5. ^ "Yuhana YOKOI: 2019/2020". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 13 October 2019.
6. ^ "Competition Results: Yuhana YOKOI". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 17 December 2018.
7. Gallagher, Jack (November 25, 2018). "Yuhana Yokoi, Tatsuya Tsuboi take golds at Japan Junior Championships". The Japan Times.
8. Gallagher, Jack (November 24, 2018). "Koshiro Shimada, Yuhana Yokoi lead after short programs at Japan Junior Championships". The Japan Times.
9. Slater, Paula (November 27, 2020). "Sakamoto soars to lead at NHK Trophy". Golden Skate.
10. Slater, Paula (November 28, 2020). "Sakamoto claims ladies' title at 2020 NHK Trophy". Golden Skate.
11. Slater, Paula (November 20, 2021). "Shcherbakova wins fourth Grand Prix gold in France". Golden Skate.
12. Slater, Paula (January 22, 2022). "Japan's Mai Mihara reclaims Four Continents title". Golden Skate.
13. Mitsuoka, Maria-Laura (December 24, 2022). "Japan's Kaori Sakamoto reclaims national title". Golden Skate.
14. "Yuhana YOKOI: 2021/2022". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 20 October 2021.
15. "Yuhana YOKOI: 2020/2021". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 27 November 2020.
16. "横井 ゆは菜 ｜ スケート∞リンク ～フジスケ～". フジテレビ (in Japanese). Retrieved 2020-06-10.
17. "Yuhana YOKOI: 2018/2019". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 17 December 2018.
18. "Yuhana YOKOI: 2017/2018". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 29 May 2018.
19. "Yuhana YOKOI: 2014/2015". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 21 May 2015.
20. ^ "Yuhana YOKOI". rinkresults.com.
21. "横井 ゆは菜 / YOKOI Yuhana" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 17 December 2018.

External links

Media related to Yuhana Yokoi at Wikimedia Commons

• Yuhana Yokoi at the International Skating Union

• 2000 births
• Japanese female single skaters
• Living people
• Figure skaters from Nagoya
• 21st-century Japanese sportswomen