Tae Satoya
Template:MedalTableTop Template:MedalSport Template:MedalGold Template:MedalBronze Template:MedalBottom Template:Nihongo is a Japanese freestyle skier. She won the Olympic title in the moguls event at the 1998 Winter Olympics, and she finished third at the 2002 games.
Tae became the first Japanese woman to earn a gold medal in the Winter Olympics.
She was banned by the Ski Association of Japan from participating in the 2005 Freestyle World Ski Championships in Finland.<ref name="sja1">Mark D. West (2007). Secrets, Sex, and Spectacle: The Rules of Scandal in Japan and the United States, page 218. University of Chicago Press, ISBN 978-0-226-89408-9</ref>
Although reportedly suffering from back problems, Satoya competed in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Ladies' Moguls where she finished 19th after falling on her last jump.<ref>Uemura won't hold back in bid for moguls medal, The Japan Times, japantimes.co.jp. Retrieved 13 February 2010.</ref>
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- 1976 births
- Living people
- Japanese female freestyle skiers
- Sportspeople from Sapporo
- Olympic freestyle skiers of Japan
- Freestyle skiers at the 1994 Winter Olympics
- Freestyle skiers at the 1998 Winter Olympics
- Freestyle skiers at the 2002 Winter Olympics
- Freestyle skiers at the 2006 Winter Olympics
- Freestyle skiers at the 2010 Winter Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for Japan
- Olympic bronze medalists for Japan
- Olympic medalists in freestyle skiing
- Medalists at the 2002 Winter Olympics
- Medalists at the 1998 Winter Olympics
- Freestyle skiers at the 2003 Asian Winter Games
- Freestyle skiers at the 2011 Asian Winter Games
