Sara Crispino

**Sara Crispino** (サーラ・クリスピーノ, *Sāra Kurisupīno*) is a ladies' singles figure skater from Italy featured in *Yuri!!! on Ice* and the younger twin sister of Michele Crispino.

## Appearance

Sara is a beautiful tan-skinned young woman with long, straight black hair that she usually has it down with bangs styled on either side of her face, dark purple eyes and full nude-colored lips.

When Sara performs, her hair is tied into a bun, she wears performance makeup, and white skates. Outside of performances, she is usually seen wearing a dark track suit with **Italy** printed on the back, sneakers, and an I.D. badge on a lanyard.

## Personality

Sara is a rather carefree (**free from anxiety or responsibility**) young woman who is indifferent to Michele Crispino's attempts to keep her away from potential suitors. However, she recognizes that her relationship with her brother is very co-dependent and knows that neither of them will improve as people nor as skaters if this continues. She is supportive of most other skaters and sometimes lightly flirts with the male skaters, much to the disapproval of her brother.

Sara is also easily emotionally moved by the people around her, such as being angry at Seung-gil Lee for being rude to her or crying during Michele's free skate performance .

## Background

Sara began figure skating with her brother, Michele Crispino, at a young age. Sara was bullied by other male skaters who claimed they just thought she was cute, but her brother always came to her defense.

She and Michele are from Naples, Italy  where she is currently ranked fourth in the world in Ladies' Singles .

## Skills

### Jumps

Sara is one of the better jumpers in the ladies' division, as she is able to land difficult combination jumps like her signature Triple Lutz-Triple Loop.

## Relationships

### Michele Crispino

Michele, **Mickey**, is Sara's older fraternal twin brother. They are shown to be quite close and get along very well. She is supportive of him during his skating events but recognizes that he is too dependent on her and wishes for him to learn to be strong on his own.

Despite their close relationship, Sara is shown to be somewhat frustrated by how protective Michele is of her and that he tries to keep any/all male admirers away; most likely due to seeing how she was picked on when they were younger.

### Emil Nekola

Sara and Emil are on friendly terms, although it is unclear how they truly see each other.

### Mila Babicheva

Despite being competitors, Sara and Mila are seen to be on friendly terms with each other where Sara sits with Mila in the audience during the Rostelecom Cup free skate and the Grand Prix Final and Mila is concerned for Sara when Sara starts crying during Michele's performance.

### Seung-gil Lee

Sara seems to be interested in getting to know Seung-gil better that she even calls him during the Grand Prix Final short program, but Seung-gil does not seem interested in her.

## Quotes

* "*Mickey has to reach a place where he can win without my being around. At this rate, if things don't change the both of us will become no good.*"  (monologue after Michele Crispino's short program)

* *"I am not every woman in the world!"* (to Michele)

* *"I'm sorry I said all those mean things to you. They must have hurt, right? But I'm glad I did, we are better apart after all!"* (to Michele)

## Etymology

* The name **Sara** means "lady"/"princess"/"noblewoman" in Hebrew.
	+ Her name was originally romanized as **Sala**, but it has been officially changed to **Sara**.

* Sara's surname **Crispino** means "cobbler" in Italian.

## Trivia

* Sara's Instagram is sala-crispino.

* Sara was originally designed with the same brown hair as Michele Crispino, but her hair color was changed to black late in development.
	+ However, she is still depicted with brown hair in the ending credits.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 *Yuri!!! on Ice* Episode 8
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 *Yuri!!! on Ice* Episode 9
3. ↑ *Pash! Magazine* March 2017 Issue
4. ↑ *Yuri!!! on Ice*Official Website Character Profiles
5. ↑ *Yuri!!! on Ice* Episode 10