Kazumi Yamashita

Kazumi Yamashita, a figure skating hopeful, is training to compete in the Sapporo Olympics. She is a beautiful, well-balanced, knobby beauty, which is rare for Japanese athletes, training hard for her participation in the Sapporo Olympics. She is the biggest hope in the figure skating world to compete in the Sapporo Olympics. Her mother is former All-Japan champion Tsuyako Yamashita (nee Ikuta), and like a frog's offspring, she recently won her second consecutive Japan title with a spectacular skating performance. She first emerged at the age of 16, after winning three consecutive inter-high school competitions. After winning three consecutive inter-high championships, she competed in the 1968 Olympics in Grenoble, fulfilling a dream that her mother had been unable to achieve. Kazumi Yamashita practicing for her participation in the Sapporo Olympics at the Osaka Rink in Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture; photo by Yoshinori Ishikawa, December 1969.