Emi Watanabe

Emi Watanabe
nation	Japan
birthday	August 27, 1959
place of birth	Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
size	152 cm
Weight	45 kg
Career
discipline	Single run
society	Senshu University
status	resigned
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 0 × 1 ×
World figure skating championships bronze Vienna 1979 Ladies

Emi Watanabe ( Japanese 渡 部 絵 美 , Watanabe Emi ; born August 27, 1959 in Tokyo Prefecture ) is a former Japanese figure skater who started in a single run .

Watanabe is the daughter of a Japanese father and a Filipino mother. She was Japanese female figure skating champion from 1973 to 1980 . During this period she also took part in world championships . She celebrated her greatest success at the 1979 World Cup in Vienna , where she won the bronze medal behind the Americans Linda Fratianne and Anett Pötzsch from the GDR. It was the first world championship medal for Japan in women's competition. Watanabe represented Japan at two Winter Olympics . In 1976 in Innsbruck she was 13th and in 1980 in Lake Placid she took sixth place.

Results

Competition / year	1973	1974	1975	1976	1977	1978	1979	1980
winter Olympics				13.				6th
World championships	17th	15th	13.	17th	12.	8th.	3.	4th
Japanese championships	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.

Web links

• Emi Watanabe in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Website by Emi Watanabe (Japanese)