Utana Yoshida

Utana Yoshida was born in September 2003 in Kurashiki, Okayama, and skates ice dance with Masaya Morita. The results speak for themselves: silver in the team event at the 2026 Olympics, gold at the 2025 Asian Winter Games, and back-to-back Japanese national titles in 2024-25 and 2025-26. What strikes me is the discipline she chose. Japan has produced world-beating singles skaters for decades, but ice dance has always sat in their shadow domestically, with thinner infrastructure and far less attention. Building a career there means accepting a harder road for smaller applause. It is also the least individual sport imaginable. You can be technically superb and still get nowhere if the partnership does not breathe as one unit, and that synchrony takes years to build. She and Morita clearly have it. She is still in her early twenties, which is the most exciting part of the whole picture.

Name (English)

Utana Yoshida

Name (Japanese)

吉田唄菜

Reading

よしだ うたな

Born

September 6, 2003 (age 22)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Goat

Origin

Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, Japan

Height

153 cm

Occupation

ice dancer

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utana%20Yoshida
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%90%89%E7%94%B0%E5%94%84%E8%8F%9C
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q66828165

Tags

• Okayama Prefecture
• ice dancer

Last updated

2026-08-07

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