Satoko Miyahara

Satoko Miyahara, born 26 March 1998 in Kyoto and now retired, has a medal list that rewards a second look: World silver in 2015, World bronze in 2018, Four Continents champion in 2016 with silvers there in 2014 and 2015, Grand Prix Final silver twice, Skate America champion in 2017 and 2018, and the 2015 NHK Trophy. At 149 cm she was never going to win the era's arms race in jump size, and she did not try to. Her scoring came from the unglamorous places — skating quality, spins, positions held longer and cleaner than the field's. That is the hardest way to reach a World podium, because every point has to be earned again in the next program; there is no single trick that bails you out. In a discipline that increasingly rewards raw rotation, she made precision pay, repeatedly, for years. I think that record ages better than it looked at the time.

Name (English)

Satoko Miyahara

Name (Japanese)

宮原知子

Reading

みやはら さとこ

Born

March 26, 1998 (age 28)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Tiger

Origin

Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

Height

149 cm

Occupation

figure skater

University

Kansai University

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/55satoko/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoko%20Miyahara
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AE%AE%E5%8E%9F%E7%9F%A5%E5%AD%90
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7426349

Tags

• Kyoto Prefecture
• figure skater

Last updated

2026-08-07

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.