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Shizuka Arakawa

1981 - Today

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Shizuka Arakawa (荒川 静香, Arakawa Shizuka, born December 29, 1981) is a retired Japanese figure skater. She is the 2006 Olympic champion and the 2004 World champion. Arakawa is the first Japanese skater to win an Olympic gold medal in figure skating and the second Japanese skater to win any Olympic medal in figure skating, after Midori Ito, who won silver in 1992. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shizuka Arakawa has received more than 273,669 page views. Her biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Shizuka Arakawa is the 163rd most popular skater (down from 135th in 2019), the 1,569th most popular biography from Japan (up from 1,688th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Japanese Skater.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.95

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.73

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SKATERS

Among skaters, Shizuka Arakawa ranks 163 out of 315. Before her are Martina Sáblíková, Emese Hunyady, Evgeni Platov, Anna Levandi, Bam Margera, and Andrea Ehrig-Mitscherlich. After her are Gabriella Papadakis, Dorothy Hamill, Kamila Valieva, Nils van der Poel, Maribel Vinson, and Ken Henry.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1981, Shizuka Arakawa ranks 229. Before her are Émilie Dequenne, Taufik Hidayat, Kiera Cass, Cristian Zaccardo, Fandango, and Giourkas Seitaridis. After her are Afonso Alves, Lee Chun-soo, Devendra Banhart, Jürgen Melzer, Willy William, and Jung Ryeo-won.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Shizuka Arakawa ranks 1,569 out of 6,048. Before her are Eri Fukatsu (1973), Haruka Ayase (1985), Satoshi Tsunami (1961), Joe Odagiri (1976), Shin Koyamada (1982), and Masahiro Nakai (1972). After her are Samaire Armstrong (1980), Shigeharu Ueki (1954), Shigemitsu Sudo (1956), One (1986), Mamiko Noto (1980), and Yui (1987).

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Among SKATERS In Japan

Among skaters born in Japan, Shizuka Arakawa ranks 3. Before her are Yuzuru Hanyu (1994) and Midori Ito (1969). After her are Mao Asada (1990), Shoma Uno (1997), Miki Ando (1987), Daisuke Takahashi (1986), Akira Kuroiwa (1961), Hiroyasu Shimizu (1974), Yuko Kavaguti (1981), Nao Kodaira (1986), and Fumie Suguri (1980).

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