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Aiko Uemura
Personal information
Born (1979-12-09) December 9, 1979 (age 45)
Itami, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan
Height156 cm (5 ft 1 in)
Weight49 kg (100 lb)
Sport
Country Japan
SportFreestyle skiing
Medal record
Representing  Japan
FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships
Gold medal – first place 2009 Inawashiro Moguls
Gold medal – first place 2009 Inawashiro Dual Moguls
Bronze medal – third place 2001 Whistler Moguls
Bronze medal – third place 2005 Ruka Dual Moguls

Aiko Uemura (上村 愛子, Uemura Aiko, born on December 9, 1979 in Itami, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese freestyle skier. She participates in moguls and dual moguls.

Her family moved to Hakuba town, Nagano Prefecture, Japan in 1986. She graduated from Hakuba High School in 1998, and works for the Kitano Construction Corporation in Nagano city, Japan.

She is the first Japanese woman to win the 2007–08 World Cup in moguls, and also won two gold medals at FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships 2009. She took part in the Winter Olympic Games in 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, and 2014.

In June 2009, she married alpine skier Kentaro Minagawa.

At the 2014 Sochi Olympics, she was beaten for bronze by Hannah Kearney, the previous Olympic champion.


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