Minoru Sano

Minoru Sano
nation	Japan
birthday	June 3, 1955
place of birth	Yamanashi Prefecture
Career
discipline	Single run
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 0 × 1 ×
World figure skating championships bronze Tokyo 1977 Men's

Minoru Sano ( Japanese 佐野 稔 , Sano Minoru ; born June 3, 1955 in Yamanashi Prefecture ) is a former Japanese figure skater who started in a single run .

He was Japanese champion five times in a row from 1972 to 1976 and represented Japan at world championships from 1973 to 1977 . At his last world championship , in 1977, in front of a home audience in Tokyo , he became a national hero when he won the first world championship medal for a Japanese by winning the bronze medal. Until Takeshi Honda also won a bronze medal in 2002 , Sano was the only Japanese man who had succeeded. At the 1976 Olympic Games , he was ninth.

Sano works as a TV commentator and figure skating instructor. Shizuka Arakawa and Yamato Tamura were among his students .

Results

Competition / year	1971	1972	1973	1974	1975	1976	1977
winter Olympics						9.
World championships			14th	8th.	10.	7th	3.
Japanese championships	3.	2.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.

Web links

• Minoru Sano in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )