Sae Miyakawa

Sae Miyakawa (宮川 紗江, Miyagawa Sae) is a Japanese artistic gymnast. She represented Japan at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics and won a bronze medal on vault.[1] She also competed at the 2015 World Championships where she finished fourth on floor. She was a member of the team that won gold at the 2015 Asian Championships, and individually she won silver on vault and bronze on floor.

Sae Miyakawa
Country represented Japan
Born (1999-09-10) September 10, 1999
Years on national team2013 - present
ClubSaints Gymnastics Club
Head coach(es)Hayami Yuto
Music2013: "Diablo Rojo" by Rodrigo y Gabriela
2014-2015: "This is Berk" from How to Train Your Dragon
Medal record
Representing  Japan
Asian Championships
2015 HiroshimaTeam
2015 HiroshimaVault
2015 HiroshimaFloor Exercise
Youth Olympic Games
2014 NanjingVault

Junior career

Miyakawa made her international debut at the 2013 International Gymix where Japan won the bronze medal in the Junior Cup.[2][3] At the 2013 Japan Junior International, Miyakawa finished twelfth all-around,[4] fifth on vault, and won a bronze on floor.[5]

Miyakawa began the 2014 season at the City of Jesolo Trophy. The Japanese junior team finished in fourth,[6] and Miyakawa finished seventh all-around with a 53.200.[7] She also finished seventh in the vault and beam event finals.[8] At the Junior Asian Championships, the Japanese team won gold, and Miyakawa won bronze all-around with a 53.650.[9] She also won gold on vault and floor. Miyakawa was selected to compete for Japan at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics. She finished fifth in the all-around final with a 53.300.[10] She won a bronze medal in the vault final behind Wang Yan of China and Ellie Downie of Great Britain.[11] Downie and Miyakawa had tied for second place with 14.566. For the tiebreaker, the highest scoring vault for each gymnast was used to determine who won the silver and who won the bronze. Downie's highest vault score was 14.866, and Miyakawa's was 14.800.[12] Miyakawa ended her junior career at the Élite Gym Massilia where she finished seventh with her team and twenty-eighth all-around.[13][14]

Senior career

Miyakawa's senior international debut was the 2015 WOGA Classic. She finished for sixth in the all-around with a 54.350, and she won a silver on vault, finished fourth on bars and seventh on floor.[15] She finished seventh all-around at the Japanese National Championships,[16] and she finished sixth all-around at the NHK Cup.[17] At the Japanese Individual Event Championships, Miyakawa won gold on vault with a 14.925 average and finished fifth on floor.[18] She was then named to the Japanese team for the 2015 World Championships along with Natsumi Sasada, Aiko Sugihara, Asuka Teramoto, Yuki Uchiyama, and Sakura Yumoto.[19] At the 2015 Asian Championships, Miyakawa and the Japanese team won gold by almost a point over China.[20] Miyakawa won a silver on vault behind Wang Yan with a 14.812 average,[21] and she won a bronze on floor with a 13.600.[22] At the 2015 World Championships, the Japanese team finished in fifth.[23] In the floor final, Miyakawa scored a 14.933 and tied for fourth with Shang Chunsong.[24]

Competitive history
Year Event Team AA VT UB BB FX
2013International Gymnix3rd
Japan Junior International12th5th3rd
2014City of Jesolo Trophy4th7th7th7th
Junior Asian Championships1st3rd1st1st
National Championships10th
NHK Cup7th
Individual National Championships1st2nd
Youth Olympic Games5th3rd5th
Élite Gym Massilia7th28th
2015WOGA Classic6th2nd4th7th
National Championships7th
NHK Cup6th
Individual National Championships1st5th
2015 Asian Championships1st2nd3rd
World Championships5th4th

References
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  22. "6th Senior Artistic Gymnastics Asian Championships Women's Finals Apparatus Result Floor" (PDF). Gymnastics Results. 2 August 2015. Retrieved 6 February 2016.
  23. "46th ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, GLASGOW (GBR) Women's Team Final" (PDF). Gymnastics Results. 27 October 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 February 2016. Retrieved 6 February 2016.
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