What is Shizuka Arakawa?
[[File:Shizuka Arakawa.jpg|thumb|right|Shizuka Arakawa]] '''Shizuka Arakawa''' ({{lang-ja|荒川 静香}}) is a [[figure skating|figure skater]] from [[Japan]]. She went to the [[Olympic Games|Olympics]] in 1998 for the first time at age 16. They were held in Nagano, Japan. She won the gold medal in single skating at the Olympics in 2006. That was the only medal for Japan at the 2006 Olympics. She also won the World Championships in 2004. == Other websites == * [http://shizuka-arakawa.com/ Shizuka-Arakawa.com] * [http://www.isufs.org/bios/isufs00000324.htm International Skating Union page] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080514141553/http://www.isufs.org/bios/isufs00000324.htm |date=2008-05-14 }} {{Japan-sports-bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Arakawa, Shizuka}} [[Category:Japanese figure skaters]] [[Category:1981 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Olympic gold medalists for Japan]] [[Category:Sportspeople from Tokyo]]