Sota Yamamoto

January 10, 2000 (age 14)

Osaka Prefecture, Japan

2013-2014 season Yamamoto debuted on the International Skating Union Junior Grand Prix series in 2013-2014 season, placing 11th in Riga, Latvia, his sole assignment. At the Japan Championships, he was 5th in the junior competition and 14th at the senior event. 2014-2015 season Ranked first in the short program and third in the free skate, he finished second overall, behind Shoma Uno and ahead of Alexander Petrov. Nationally, he was the junior silver medalist, behind Shoma Uno, and finished 6th at the senior event. 2015-2016 season These results qualified him for the 2015-2016 JGP Final, where he was awarded the bronze medal. He fractured his right ankle in practice on March 12, causing him to withdraw from the 2016 World Junior Championships in Debrecen.

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山本草太

figure skater

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2013-2014 season

Yamamoto debuted on the International Skating Union Junior Grand Prix series in 2013-2014 season, placing 11th in Riga, Latvia, his sole assignment. At the Japan Championships, he was 5th in the junior competition and 14th at the senior event. 2014-2015 season

Ranked first in the short program and third in the free skate, he finished second overall, behind Shoma Uno and ahead of Alexander Petrov.

Nationally, he was the junior silver medalist, behind Shoma Uno, and finished 6th at the senior event.

2015-2016 season

These results qualified him for the 2015-2016 JGP Final, where he was awarded the bronze medal. He fractured his right ankle in practice on March 12, causing him to withdraw from the 2016 World Junior Championships in Debrecen.

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He is the 2016 Youth Olympic champion, the 2015 World Junior bronze medalist, a two-time Junior Grand Prix Final medalist (silver in 2014, bronze in 2015), and the 2015 Japan junior national champion. During the 2014-2015 JGP series, Yamamoto won silver medals in Courchevel, France and Tallinn, Estonia, which qualified him to the 2014-2015 JGP Final in Barcelona, Spain. At the 2015 World Junior Championships, Yamamoto placed 7th in the short program and 3rd in the free skate to win the bronze medal in his first appearance at that competition. Competing in the 2015-2016 International Skating Union Junior Grand Prix, Yamamoto won the bronze medal in Colorado Springs, Colorado and gold in Toruń, Poland. He won his first junior national title at the 2015 Japanese Junior Championships. In February 2016, Yamamoto won the gold medal in the men"s singles discipline at the Winter Youth Olympics ahead of Latvia"s Deniss Vasiljevs and Russia"s Dmitri Aliev.

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Junior Grand Prix Final; medals in Courchevel, France and Tallinn, Estonia; medal in Colorado Springs, Colorado