 Yanetani in 2012 | ||||||||||||
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| Nationality | Japanese | |||||||||||
| Born | June 7, 1984 Kobe, Japan [1] | |||||||||||
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| Sport | Snowboarding | |||||||||||
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Eri Yanetani (born 7 June 1984 in Kobe) is a Japanese snowboarder.
Yanetani competed in the women's parallel giant slalom event at the 2006 Winter Olympics, placing 18th, and the 2010 Winter Olympics, placing 21st. [1]
At the 2017 Asian Winter Games she won a silver medal in the slalom event [2] and a gold medal in the giant slalom event. [3]
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