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以下是伊藤的英文介绍。英文好的朋友可以看一看。 Midori Ito was born Aug. 13, 1969 in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan. She began ice skating when she was 4 years old and was competing by age 6.
Her first wins came in 1980: winning both the All Japan Juniors and the All Japan Junior Freestyle. Her jumping ability earned her nicknames like "Tsunami Girl" and "The Japanese Jumping Bean."
Midori Ito In March 1988, Midori graduated from Tokai Women's High School. Later that year, in early November 1988, she landed her first triple axel in competition at the Aichi Prefecture Championship (where she won the gold). She landed another triple axel one week later at the NHK Cup competitions (where she again won gold). She had pushed up the technical level for women's skating.
In her free skate in the 1988 Olympics, while she did not land a triple axel, she did land other triple jumps.
At the 1989 World's competition in Paris, she became the first woman to land a triple axel in a major international competition (since then, Tonya Harding is the only other woman skater to land a triple axel in an international competition) and became the first Asian skater to win the World's despite having placed 6th in compulsory figures (which are no longer part of figure skating competitions.
A year later, in March 1990, she Graduated Tokai Gakuen Women's College in Nagoya (Concentrated in Human Relations, Department of Living Studies) and the following month began her sponsorship with Prince Hotel, Inc. During the next two years leading up to the 1992 Winter Olympics, Midori won nine gold and two silver medals out of 12 competitions. At the 1992 Winter Olympics she won the Silver Medal. She publicly apologized to her country for not winning the Gold).
Midori retired from amateur skating after the 1992 Olympics, going professional, winning or placing high in several professional competions including winning the World Professional championship in 1993 (where she became the first, and so far only, woman to perform a triple axel in a professional competition).
She was re-instated as an amateur in June 1995 but a little over a year later, Midori announced her retirement from eligible skating. Due to health problems stemming from hypproteinemia (low protein levels in the blood).
Midori still skates 11 months out of the year in Prince Ice World shows for the Prince Hotels, her long-time sponsor. She is also coaching a Japanese national figure skating team, doing TV commercials and guest television commentary for Japanese amateur skating competitions, and has started a women's labor union.
On January 4, 2001 Midori returned to professional competition, performing in the Japan Open held at the National Yoyogi stadium in Tokyo. In her interpretative skate she put in the triple axel, stepping out of the landing but still scoring high enough to win the bronze. "I thought it would be great," Midori said after the competition, "to compete for the first time in Japan after my long time away."
For the 2002 Winter Olympics, Midori worked as a commentator on the games for Japanese television.
COMPETITIVE HIGHLIGHTS:
1980 All Japan Juniors -- 1st All Japan Junior Freestyle -- 1st
1981 Freestyle -- 1st Worlds Juniors -- 8th
1982 Freestyle -- 1st World Juniors -- 6th
1983 Freestyle -- 1st All-Japan Juniors -- 1st Prague International Championship -- 1st Enia Challenge Cup -- 2nd NHK Cup -- 3rd
1984 All-Japan -- 2nd World Juniors -- 3rd Skate Canada -- 1st NHK Cup -- 1st Freestyle -- 1st Worlds -- 7th
1985 All-Japan -- 1st Worlds -- Missed due to injury NHK Cup -- 1st
1986 All-Japan -- 1st Freestyle -- 1st Worlds -- 11th NHK Cup -- 2nd
1987 All-Japan -- 1st Worlds -- 8th Freestyle -- 1st Fuji Cup -- 1st NHK Cup -- 2nd<
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