Utana Yoshida

is a Japanese ice dancer, who currently competes with Masaya Morita. Together, they are 2026 Olympic team event silver medalists, the 2025 Asian Winter Games champions, and two-time Japanese national champions (2024–25, 2025–26).

With her former skating partner, Shingo Nishiyama, she was a two-time Japanese national junior ice dance champion (2019–20, 2020–21) and a 2020 Winter Youth Olympics champion in the team event.

Personal life Yoshida was born on September 6, 2003, in Kurashiki, Japan. Originally a ladies' singles skater, she placed seventh at the novice level at the Chu-Shikoku-Kyushu Regional in 2014, and thus failed to advance to the 2014–15 Japan Championships.

Partnership with Seiji Urano 2021–2022 season In May 2021, Yoshida announced her partnership with American skater Seiji Urano for Japan.

Yoshida/Urano did not appear in any major international or domestic events before announcing their split in December 2021.

Ice dance with Masaya Morita 2023–2024 season: Debut of Yoshida/Morita In April 2023, then partnerless Japanese ice dancer, Masaya Morita sent a DM to Yoshida's Instagram account, asking if she would be interested in having a tryout with him which she agreed to. The two would meet up at the Okayama International Skating Rink in Okayama, where their tryout was monitored by Morita's coach, Cathy Reed and Yoshida's coach, Rie Arikawa. This tryout would prove successful and end with Yoshida/Morita agreeing to pair up on that same day. Yoshida would move to Uji, Kyoto to train with Morita at the Kinoshita Skate Academy under coaches, Reed and Arikawa.

Yoshida/Morita made their international competitive debut on the Challenger circuit at the 2023 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb, where they finished in fifth place.

Going on to compete at the 2025 Asian Winter Games in Harbin, China, Yoshida/Morita won the gold medal. They subsequently competed at the 2025 Four Continents Championships in Seoul, South Korea, finishing in eighth place.

Selected to compete for Team Japan at the 2025 World Team Trophy, Yoshida/Morita placed sixth in all segments of the ice dance event and Team Japan won the silver medal overall.

They subsequently competed at the 2025 CS Trialeti Trophy, placing fifth overall. Selected as host picks at the 2025 NHK Trophy, Yoshida/Morita finished the event in tenth place overall.

In late December, Yoshida/Morita competed at the Japan Championships, winning their second consecutive national title. The following month, they finished seventh at the 2026 Four Continents Championships in Beijing, China. The following day, they placed fifth in the free dance. "Since yesterday, including today, everyone really delivered amazing performances," noted Yoshida. "We also got in the rink today hoping to follow that flow as well. We think we were able to do that, even if just a little." With their combined placements, Team Japan won the silver medal overall.

The following month, Yoshida/Morita competed at the 2026 World Championships in Prague, Czech Republic. They earned a personal best in the rhythm dance segment and placed fifteenth thus qualifying for the free dance. Yoshida/Morita went on to place eighteenth in the free dance to finish in nineteenth place overall.

Programs Ice dance with Masaya Morita Season Rhythm dance Free dance Exhibition 2026–2027 Danse Macabre Carnival Chant Batería 2025–2026 Stomp to My Beat Butterfly Stomp to My Beat Rise of the Phoenix X-X Rise of the Phoenix

Violin Fantasy on Puccini’s Turandot I Wanna Dance 2024–2025

One I Can Do That Medley

Entree of Basil Pas de Deux Hip Hip Chin Chin

One I Can Do That Medley 2019–2020