Shizuka Arakawa
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Shizuka Arakawa 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 a
Arakawa at the 2009 Festa On Ice.
Arakawa performs a donut spin at the 2003 Skate Canada International in her free skate to Violin Fantasy on the opera Turandot.
Arakawa performs a Kerrigan spiral in her exhibition to "Memory" from Cats at the 2004 NHK Trophy.
Arakawa performs her signature layback Ina Bauer in her exhibition to You Raise Me Up by Celtic Woman at the 2006 Olympics.
Ina Bauer (element)
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An Ina Bauer is a "moves in the field" element in figure skating in which a skater skates on two parallel blades. One foot is on a forward edge and the other leg is on a backwards and different parall
Shizuka Arakawa
…to the other leaders. Arakawa won the free program, skating to Vanessa Mae's Violin Fantasy on Puccini's Turandot by Giacomo Puccini. She performed an Ina Bauer and then did a three jump combination. "Ina Bauer" became a household word in Japan as a result. Although she had planned two triple-triple combinations…
Kim Ye-lim performing an Ina Bauer at Skate Canada 2019
Ina bauer (Veronika Kropotina)
Ina Bauer (front view) Mako Yamashita
Ina bauer (side view) (Joannie Rochette)