Utana Yoshida
Utana Yoshida (吉田 唄菜) is a Japanese ice dancer born on September 6, 2003, in Kurashiki, Japan. She currently competes with Masaya Morita (since 2023) and trains at the Kinoshita Skate Academy in Kyoto, coached by Cathy Reed and Rie Arikawa. Yoshida/Morita are the 2025 Asian Winter Games champions, two-time Japanese national champions (2024–25 and 2025–26), and the 2023–24 Japanese national bronze medalists. They were selected to represent Team Japan at the 2026 Winter Olympics in the team event and won silver at the 2025 World Team Trophy.
Her former partner was Shingo Nishiyama. Together, they were two-time Japanese national junior champions (2019–20, 2020–21) and won gold in the team event at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics. Yoshida began skating in 2010 after being inspired by Mao Asada and started as a singles skater before switching to ice dance in 2016 with Takumi Sugiyama. The pair placed fourth at the 2016–17 Japan Junior Championships and won advanced novice gold at the 2017 Mentor Toruń Cup before splitting.
Yoshida graduated from N High School. She looks up to famous ice dance teams Carreira/Ponomarenko and Lajoie/Lagha. She is 1.54 meters tall.
This page was last edited on 2 February 2026, at 06:05 (CET).