Etsuko Inada
Etsuko Inada (Japanese稲 田 悦子, Inada Etsuko, born February 8, 1924 in Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, † July 8, 2003 in Chiba, Chiba Prefecture) was a Japanese figure skater who started in a single run.
Inada visited the Christian Baika - girls school. In 1935 she won the inaugural women's competition at the Japan Figure Skating Championships in 1936 and took twelve years old as the first Japanese woman at all major international tournaments. At the Olympic Games in Garmisch -Partenkirchen as well as at the World Championships in Paris, she was ten. The Championship, which still open non-Europeans at that time, she finished in ninth place. From 1937 to 1941 Inada was again Japanese champion, but resigned because of international political tensions during the Second Sino-Japanese War not in appearance. 1951, ten years after their last national title, she returned again and became the seventh and last time Japanese champion. She denied then 15 years after their first world championship is in Milan their second and final World Cup. It was the first World Cup after the Second World War, were admitted to the Japanese again. She won the 21th Place.
Etsuko Inada died on 8 July 2003 with 79 years in a hospital in Chiba from stomach cancer. Your funeral was held at Tsukiji Hongan -ji Buddhist temple to the Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko floral decorations gave a condolence, among other things, because Inada of the imperial family who taught skating.