# Yuhana Yokoi

Yuhana Yokoi (Japanese: 横井 ゆは菜; born May 19, 2000) is a retired Japanese figure skater. She is the 2019 CS Finlandia Trophy bronze medalist and the 2020 Challenge Cup silver medalist. At the junior level, she is the 2018 JGP Armenia bronze medalist, and two-time Japanese Junior national medalist. She finished within the top ten at two World Junior Championships (2018, 2019).

## Personal life

Yokoi was born on May 19, 2000 in Nagoya, Japan. Her sister, Kinayu, who is four years younger than her, is also a competitive figure skater.
Yokoi studied at the School of Sport Sciences at Chukyo University.

## Career
### Early years

Yokoi began learning to skate in 2008. She made her ISU Junior Grand Prix debut in September 2014, placing sixth in Nagoya, Japan. At the 2015–16 Japan Championships, she won bronze in the junior event and finished eleventh in the senior event.

### 2017–18 season

At the 2017–18 Japan Championships, Yokoi finished fourth in the junior event and eighth in the senior event. In March, she competed at the 2018 World Junior Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria. Ranked eighth in the short and fourth in the free, she finished sixth overall.

### 2018–19 season

In October, Yokoi won bronze at the ISU Junior Grand Prix in Armenia. In November, she became Japan's junior national champion. She finished seventh competing in the senior ranks at the 2018–19 Japan Championships in December.
In March, she placed eighteenth in the short, eighth in the free, and ninth overall at the 2019 World Junior Championships in Zagreb, Croatia.
In April, she was invited to skate in the gala at the 2019 World Team Trophy as the Japan junior national champion.

### 2019–20 season

In October, making her senior international debut, Yokoi won the bronze medal at the 2019 CS Finlandia Trophy. In November, she competed at two Grand Prix events, placing sixth at the 2019 Rostelecom Cup and fourth at the 2019 NHK Trophy. The following month, she finished fifth at the 2019–20 Japan Championships.
In February 2020, Yokoi won silver at the International Challenge Cup in The Hague, Netherlands.

### 2020–21 season

With the COVID-19 pandemic limiting international competitions, Yokoi was assigned to compete at the 2020 NHK Trophy, which was attended almost exclusively by Japanese skaters. She was fifth in the short program, her only error being an under-rotation on her solo triple flip jump. In the free skate, she made several errors, finishing eighth in that segment and dropping to eighth place overall.
Yokoi placed eighth at the 2020–21 Japan Championships.

### 2021–22 season

Yokoi placed eleventh at the 2021 Skate America, her lone Grand Prix assignment. She was ninth at the 2021 Internationaux de France, saying that she was very pleased with her free skate: "I still wonder if I should continue, and when I have a good performance, I am truly happy, and that is why it keeps me going. Today's good performance made me feel that I might be able to continue."
At the 2021–22 Japan Championships, Yokoi placed twelfth. She was named to the Japanese team for the 2022 Four Continents Championships, where she finished in seventh.

### 2022–23 season

In her lone Grand Prix assignment of the year, Yokoi finished eighth at the 2022 Skate Canada International. After coming nineteenth at the 2022–23 Japan Championships, she announced her retirement from competitive skating.

## Programs

| Season | Short program | Free skating | Exhibition |
| 2022–2023 | Kalandéro (from Alegría) by Rene Dupere choreo. by Misao Sato | Hungarian Rhapsody by Franz Liszt choreo. by Akiko Suzuki | |
| 2021–2022 | Malagueña by Ernesto Lecuona choreo. by Kenji Miyamoto | Fat Bottomed Girls We Will Rock You We Are the Champions by Queen choreo. by Kenji Miyamoto |
| 2020–2021 | Nandemonaiya by Yojiro Noda choreo. by Akiko Suzuki | Tom and Jerry by Scott Bradley choreo. by Misao Sato | |
| 2019–2020 | Ten Dark Women by Shu Kanematsu choreo. by Misao Sato | The Phantom of the Opera Angel of Music performed by Sarah Brightman All I Ask of You performed by Sarah Brightman and Michael Crawford by Andrew Lloyd Webber choreo. by Miho Kawaume | Never Enough by Loren Allred |
| 2018–2019 | The Lion King by Hans Zimmer choreo. by Miho Kawaume | The Phantom of the Opera Angel of Music performed by Sarah Brightman All I Ask of You performed by Sarah Brightman and Michael Crawford by Andrew Lloyd Webber choreo. by Miho Kawaume | Never Enough by Loren Allred |
| 2017–2018 | The Lion King by Hans Zimmer choreo. by Miho Kawaume | Burlesque You Haven't Seen the Last of Me by Cher Welcome to Burlesque by Cher Show Me How You Burlesque by Christina Aguilera choreo. by Akiko Suzuki | |
| 2016–2017 | The Sound of Music The Sound of Music My Favorite Things Climb Ev'ry Mountain by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II choreo. by Yuko Hongo | Burlesque You Haven't Seen the Last of Me by Cher Welcome to Burlesque by Cher Show Me How You Burlesque by Christina Aguilera choreo. by Akiko Suzuki | |
| 2015–2016 | The Sound of Music The Sound of Music My Favorite Things Climb Ev'ry Mountain by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II choreo. by Yuko Hongo | Malagueña choreo. by Yuko Hongo | |
| 2014–2015 | Masquerade: Waltz by Aram Khachaturian choreo. by Yuko Hongo | Gypsy music choreo. by Yuko Hongo | |

## Competitive highlights

GP: Grand Prix; CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix
International :
| Event | 10–11 | 12–13 | 13–14 | 14–15 | 15–16 | 16–17 | 17–18 | 18–19 | 19–20 | 20–21 | 21–22 | 22–23 |
| Four Continents | | | | | | | | | | | 7th | |
| GP France | | | | | | | | | | | 9th | |
| GP NHK Trophy | | | | | | | | | 4th | 8th | | |
| GP Rostelecom Cup | | | | | | | | | 6th | | | |
| GP Skate America | | | | | | | | | | | 11th | |
| GP Skate Canada | | | | | | | | | | | | 8th |
| CS Finlandia Trophy | | | | | | | | | 3rd | | | |
| CS Warsaw Cup | | | | | | | | | | | WD | |
| Challenge Cup | | | | | | | | | 2nd | | | |
| International: Junior ||||||||||||||
| Junior Worlds | | | | | | | 6th | 9th | | | | |
| JGP Armenia | | | | | | | | 3rd | | | | |
| JGP Japan | | | | 6th | | | | | | | | |
| JGP Latvia | | | | | | | 5th | | | | | |
| JGP Slovakia | | | | | | | | 6th | | | | |
| Challenge Cup | | | | | | | 2nd | 1st | | | | |
| International: Advanced novice ||||||||||||||
| Gardena Spring | | 2nd | | | | | | | | | | |
| National ||||||||||||||
| Japan Champ. | | | | | 11th | | 8th | 7th | 5th | 8th | 12th | 19th |
| Japan Junior | | | 12th | 26th | 3rd | 8th | 4th | 1st | | | | |
| Japan Novice | | 6th A | | | | | | | | | | |
| Western Sect. | | | 9th J | 4th J | 1st J | 5th J | 5th J | 1st J | 1st | 7th | | |
| Chubu Reg. | 8th B | 4th A | 2nd J | 1st J | 1st J | 1st J | 1st J | 1st J | 2nd | 4th | 2nd | 3rd |
| Team events ||||||||||||||
| Japan Open | | | | | | | | | | 1st T 4th P | | |
| TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew Levels: A = Novice A; J = Junior T = Team result; P = Personal result. Medals awarded for team result only. ||||||||||||||

## Detailed results

ISU Personal best highlighted in bold.

### Senior

2022–23 season :
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
| December 21–25, 2022 | 2022–23 Japan Championships | 12 59.78 | 20 102.09 | 19 161.87 |
| October 28–30, 2022 | 2022 Skate Canada | 12 54.87 | 5 123.86 | 8 178.73 |
| 2021–22 season |||||
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
| January 18–23, 2022 | 2022 Four Continents Championships | 12 53.93 | 6 131.41 | 7 185.34 |
| December 22–26, 2021 | 2021–22 Japan Championships | 14 59.84 | 9 124.00 | 12 183.84 |
| November 19–21, 2021 | 2021 Internationaux de France | 11 52.32 | 7 124.61 | 9 176.93 |
| October 22–24, 2021 | 2021 Skate America | 12 54.77 | 10 119.30 | 11 174.07 |
| 2020–21 season |||||
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
| December 24–27, 2020 | 2020–21 Japan Championships | 16 59.83 | 6 134.39 | 8 194.22 |
| November 27–29, 2020 | 2020 NHK Trophy | 5 65.18 | 8 111.31 | 8 176.49 |
| 2019–20 season |||||
| Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
| February 20–23, 2020 | 2020 Challenge Cup | 2 73.29 | 2 141.27 | 2 214.56 |
| December 18–22, 2019 | 2019–20 Japan Championships | 9 62.90 | 4 128.02 | 5 190.92 |
| November 22–24, 2019 | 2019 NHK Trophy | 8 62.67 | 4 126.87 | 4 189.54 |
| November 15–17, 2019 | 2019 Rostelecom Cup | 10 56.51 | 5 126.17 | 6 182.68 |
| October 11–13, 2019 | 2019 CS Finlandia Trophy | 3 65.09 | 3 126.81 | 3 191.90 |

### Junior

2018–19 season :
| Date | Event | Level | SP | FS | Total |
| March 4–10, 2019 | 2019 World Junior Championships | Junior | 18 51.61 | 8 118.56 | 9 170.17 |
| February 21–24, 2019 | 2019 Challenge Cup | Junior | 1 53.63 | 1 126.27 | 1 179.90 |
| December 20–24, 2018 | 2018–19 Japan Championships | Senior | 6 66.27 | 6 130.10 | 7 196.37 |
| November 23–25, 2018 | 2018–19 Japan Junior Championships | Junior | 1 61.86 | 1 119.98 | 1 181.84 |
| October 10–13, 2018 | 2018 JGP Armenia | Junior | 6 57.62 | 2 126.47 | 3 184.09 |
| August 22–25, 2018 | 2018 JGP Slovakia | Junior | 9 51.65 | 2 121.50 | 6 173.15 |
| 2017–18 season ||||||
| Date | Event | Level | SP | FS | Total |
| March 5–11, 2018 | 2018 World Junior Championships | Junior | 8 59.81 | 4 124.97 | 6 184.78 |
| February 22–25, 2018 | 2018 Challenge Cup | Junior | 4 54.09 | 2 115.62 | 2 169.71 |
| December 20–24, 2017 | 2017–18 Japan Championships | Senior | 9 62.68 | 6 130.31 | 8 192.99 |
| November 24–26, 2017 | 2017–18 Japan Junior Championships | Junior | 7 56.89 | 3 116.08 | 4 172.97 |
| September 6–9, 2017 | 2017 JGP Latvia | Junior | 5 55.19 | 3 114.40 | 5 169.59 |
| 2016–17 season ||||||
| Date | Event | Level | SP | FS | Total |
| November 18–20, 2016 | 2016–17 Japan Junior Championships | Junior | 10 52.28 | 7 110.56 | 8 162.84 |
| 2015–16 season ||||||
| Date | Event | Level | SP | FS | Total |
| December 24, 2015 | 2015–16 Japan Junior Championships | Junior | 4 60.16 | 3 117.24 | 3 177.40 |
| 2015–16 season ||||||
| Date | Event | Level | SP | FS | Total |
| November 22, 2014 | 2014–15 Japan Junior Championships | Junior | 26 41.27 | | 26 41.27 |
| 2013–14 season ||||||
| Date | Event | Level | SP | FS | Total |
| November 22, 2013 | 2013–14 Japan Junior Championships | Junior | 23 40.84 | 9 95.89 | 12 136.73 |