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| Born | Itami, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 156 cm (5 ft 1 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 49 kg (100 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Freestyle skiing | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Aiko Uemura (上村 愛子, Uemura Aiko) 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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- 1979 births
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- Olympic freestyle skiers for Japan
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- Freestyle skiers at the 2002 Winter Olympics
- Freestyle skiers at the 2006 Winter Olympics
- Freestyle skiers at the 2010 Winter Olympics
- Freestyle skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics
- People from Itami, Hyōgo
- Japanese female freestyle skiers
- Asian Games medalists in freestyle skiing
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