Etsuko Inada

Etsuko Inada

Etsuko Inada ( Japanese 稲 田 悦子 , Inada Etsuko ; born February 8, 1924 in Osaka , † July 8, 2003 in Chiba ) was a Japanese figure skater who started in a single run .

Life

Inada attended the Baika Christian Girls School. In 1935 she won the first women's competition at the Japanese figure skating championships and in 1936, when she was twelve, she was the first Japanese woman to take part in all major international tournaments. At the Olympic Games in Garmisch-Partenkirchen as well as at the World Championships in Paris , she was tenth. The European Championship , which at that time was still open to non-Europeans, finished them in ninth place. From 1937 to 1941 Inada was again Japanese champion , but did not appear internationally due to the political tensions caused by the Second Sino-Japanese War . In 1951, ten years after her last national title, she returned once more and became Japanese champion for the seventh and final time. She then played 15 years after her first participation in the World Cup, in Milan, her second and last World Cup. It was the first world championship after World War II that the Japanese were re-admitted. She took 21st place.

Etsuko Inada died of stomach cancer on July 8, 2003 at the age of 79 in a hospital in Chiba . Her memorial service took place in the Buddhist temple Tsukiji Hongan-ji , to which Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko also gave flower arrangements as condolences, among other things because Inada taught the imperial family how to skate.

Results

Competition / year	1935	1936	1937	1938	1939	1940	1941		1951
winter Olympics		10.
World championships		10.							21st
European championships		9.
Japanese championships	1.		1.	1.	1.	1.	1.		1.

Web links

• Etsuko Inada in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} 稲 田悦子 姉 （昭 16 年高 女 卒） ご 逝去 . "Baika School Alumni Association", accessed on September 21, 2013 (Japanese).