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{{MedalSport|Women's [[Freestyle skiing at the Winter Olympics|freestyle skiing]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[1998 Winter Olympics|1998 Nagano]]|[[Freestyle skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics|Moguls]]}}
{{MedalBronze|[[2002 Winter Olympics|2002 Salt Lake City]]|[[Freestyle skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics|Moguls]]}}
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{{nihongo|'''Tae Satoya'''|里谷 多英|Satoya Tae|extra=born on June 12, 1976 in [[Sapporo]], [[Japan]]}} is a [[Japanese people|Japanese]] [[freestyle skiing|freestyle skier]]. She won the [[Olympic games|Olympic]] title in the [[Mogul_skiing|mogul]]s event at the [[1998 Winter Olympics]], and she finished third at the [[2002 Winter Olympics|2002 games]].

Tae became the first Japanese woman to earn a gold medal in the Winter Olympics.

She was banned by the [[List of sports governing bodies in Japan|Ski Association of Japan]] from participating in the [[FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships 2005|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'', [https://books.google.com/books?id=A9CDvNs35ooC&pg=PA218&lpg=PA218&dq=satoya-tae&source=bl&ots=efKxcD-Edq&sig=NX-yRw4Cv4vw7IQEHZQm9XBxNdY&hl=en 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>''[http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/so20100214a3.html ''Uemura won't hold back in bid for moguls medal''], The Japan Times, japantimes.co.jp. Retrieved 13 February 2010.</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.satoya-tae.com/ Official website]

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[[Category:Japanese female freestyle skiers]]
[[Category:Sportspeople from Sapporo]]
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[[Category:Freestyle skiers at the 1994 Winter Olympics]]
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[[Category:Freestyle skiers at the 2006 Winter Olympics]]
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[[Category:Olympic gold medalists for Japan]]
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[[Category:Olympic medalists in freestyle skiing]]
[[Category:Medalists at the 2002 Winter Olympics]]
[[Category:Medalists at the 1998 Winter Olympics]]
[[Category:Freestyle skiers at the 2003 Asian Winter Games]]
[[Category:Freestyle skiers at the 2011 Asian Winter Games]]


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