Yotaro Sato

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Yotaro Sato
Personal information
NationalityJapanese
Born (2004-08-10) 10 August 2004 (age 20) [1]
Height180 cm (5 ft 11 in)
Sport
CountryJapan
Sport Artistic swimming
Partner Tomoka Sato
Medal record
Men's artistic swimming
Representing Flag of Japan.svg  Japan
Event1st2nd3rd
World Championships 121
Total121
World Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2023 Fukuoka Mixed duet technical routine
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2022 Budapest Mixed duet technical
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2022 Budapest Mixed duet free
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2023 Fukuoka Team acrobatic routine
World Junior Artistic Swimming Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2022 Quebec Mixed duet technical
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2022 QuebecMixed duet free
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2022 QuebecSolo technical
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2022 QuebecSolo free
World Youth Artistic Swimming Championships
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2019 SamorinMixed duet

Yotaro Sato (born 10 August 2004) is a Japanese artistic swimmer. He won the silver medal in the mixed duet technical routine at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships with his older sister Tomoka Sato, which was the first medal for Japan in the event at a FINA World Aquatics Championships other than a bronze medal, as well as a silver medal in the mixed duet free routine. As part of the 2022 FINA Artistic Swimming World Series, he won one gold medal and one silver medal in the mixed duet free routine and one gold medal in the mixed duet technical routine. At the 2022 World Junior Championships, he became the first male artistic swimmer to win the silver medal each in the solo technical routine and the solo free routine at a World Junior Championships.

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Background

Sato and his older sister by approximately three years, Tomoka Sato, compete together as professional artistic swimming partners in mixed duet events. [2]

Career

2019 World Youth Championships

Competing at the 2019 World Youth Artistic Swimming Championships, held in Šamorín, Slovakia, when he was 15 years old, Sato placed fourth in the solo figures with a score of 70.0078 points, which was less than four-tenths of a point behind bronze medalist Jozef Solymosy of Slovakia. [3] He also won the bronze medal in the mixed duet event with a score of 147.8146 points, which included 76.9332 points for the free routine portion and 70.8814 points for the figures portion of the event. [4]

2022 Artistic Swimming World Series

For the 2022 FINA Artistic Swimming World Series, Sato and his partner Tomoka Sato won the silver medal in the mixed duet free routine on the first leg of the World Series, a virtual event hosted jointly by Canada and the United States in March, scoring 82.7000 points for their routine choreographed in the theme "Samori". [5] On the first day of the fourth leg of the World Series, hosted in virtual format by Australia for the first time in May, the duo won the gold medal in the mixed duet technical routine for their performance inspired by jungle animals, which earned 83.5156 points from the judges. [6] The following day, they won the gold medal in the mixed duet free routine with a score of 83.2667 points. [7]

2022 World Aquatics Championships

2022 World Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg mixed duet technical 86.5939
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg mixed duet free 89.7333

On the second day of artistic swimming competition at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships in Budapest, Hungary in June, Sato and his partner Tomoka Sato ranked second in the preliminaries of the mixed duet technical routine with a score of 85.8086 points and advanced to the final. [8] Achieving a final mark of 86.5939 points in the final, the duo won the silver medal. [9] [10] Their silver medal was the highest place finish ever for Japan in the event at a FINA World Aquatics Championships. [2] [11] Four days later, in the preliminaries of the mixed duet free routine, they qualified for the final ranking second with a score of 88.9000 points. [12] [13] He and his sister won the silver medal in the final with a score of 89.7333 points, contributing to a new record number of 7 medals achieved by artistic swimmers representing Japan at a single FINA World Aquatics Championships. [14] [15] They scored within 1.3 points of gold medalists Giorgio Minisini and Lucrezia Ruggiero of Italy. [16]

2022 World Junior Championships

At the 2022 World Junior Artistic Swimming Championships, held in August in Quebec City, Canada, Sato competed in the solo free routine on day three, scoring 83.3000 points and finishing ahead of bronze medalist Eduard Kim of Kazakhstan to win the silver medal. [17] Two days earlier in the Championships, he won the silver medal in the solo technical routine with a score of 80.9088 points. [18] [19] The Championships was the first World Junior Artistic Swimming Championships to include male solo technical and free routines in the program. [20] One day after the silver medal in the solo technical routine, he and Ayano Shimada won the gold medal in the mixed duet technical routine with a score of 84.0251 points, outscoring the silver medal duo from Spain by 0.7933 points. [21] On 26 August, day four of competition, he won a second gold medal, this time helping score 85.7000 points in the mixed duet free routine. [22]

International championships

Meetsolo figuressolo technicalsolo freemixed duet technicalmixed duet freemixed duet
Junior level
WYC 20194th
(70.0078)		————Bronze medal icon.svg
(147.8146)
WJC 2022 —Silver medal icon.svg
(80.9088)		Silver medal icon.svg
(83.3000)		Gold medal icon.svg
(84.0251)		Gold medal icon.svg
(85.7000)		—
Senior level
WC 2022 ———Silver medal icon.svg
(86.5939)		Silver medal icon.svg
(89.7333)		—

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