Tomoe Kawabata
| Tomoe Kawabata | |
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 Kawabata at the 2019 World Junior Championships | |
| Native name | 川畑 和愛 |
| Born | January 12, 2002 Nisshin, Aichi, Japan |
| Hometown | Tokyo, Japan |
| Height | 1.57 m (5 ft 2 in) |
| Figure skating career | |
| Country | Japan |
| Coach | Yutaka Higuchi, Yukina Ohta |
| Skating club | N High School FSC |
| Began skating | 2008 |
Tomoe Kawabata (川畑 和愛, Kawabata Tomoe, born January 12, 2002)[1] is a Japanese figure skater. She is the 2019–20 Japanese national bronze medalist. She has represented Japan at two World Junior Championships.
Career
Early years
Kawabata began learning to skate in 2008.[1] Making her junior debut, she placed 15th at the 2015 Japan Championships. She competed as a senior at the 2018 Japan Championships and finished in 21st place. In January 2018, she won gold in the junior ladies' category at the Bavarian Open.[2]
2018–2019 season
Kawabata received two 2018–19 Junior Grand Prix (JGP) assignments.[3] She placed fifth in the short program, sixth in the free skate, and fifth overall at JGP Slovakia, held in Bratislava, Slovakia,[4] and had the same final result at JGP Slovenia held in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
She finished 12th at the 2019 World Junior Championships. She was coached by former ice dancer Nakako Tsuzuki in Yokohama and Kanawaga.[5]
2019–2020 season
Kawabata made a coaching change in July 2019, joining Yukina Ota and Yutaka Higuchi at the Meiji Jingu rink in Tokyo.[6] She again placed fifth at both of her JGP assignments. At the Japan Championships, she won silver in the junior event and then bronze in the senior event.[7][8]
Finishing the season at the 2020 World Junior Championships, Kawabata placed fourteenth.[9]
Programs
| Season | Short program | Free skating | Exhibition |
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| 2019–2020 [1] |
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| 2018–2019 [5] |
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| 2017–2018 |
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Competitive highlights
JGP: Junior Grand Prix
| International[2] | |||||||||
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| Event | 11–12 | 12–13 | 13–14 | 14–15 | 15–16 | 16–17 | 17–18 | 18–19 | 19–20 |
| Junior Worlds | 12th | 14th | |||||||
| JGP France | 5th | ||||||||
| JGP Poland | 5th | ||||||||
| JGP Slovakia | 5th | ||||||||
| JGP Slovenia | 5th | ||||||||
| Bavarian Open | 1st J | ||||||||
| Printemps | WD | ||||||||
| National[10] | |||||||||
| Japan | 21st | 10th | 3rd | ||||||
| Japan Junior | 15th | 27th | 27th | 6th | 3rd | 2nd | |||
| Japan Novice | 9th B | 4th B | 36th A | 6th A | |||||
References
- ^ a b c "Tomoe KAWABATA: 2019/2020". International Figure Skating. Archived from the original on November 16, 2019.
- ^ a b "Competition Results: Tomoe KAWABATA". International Figure Skating. Archived from the original on November 20, 2019.
- ^ "2018-2019 JGP Ladies Assignments". www.isuresults.com. Retrieved 2018-10-06.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ "2018 JGP Slovakia Ladies' Results". www.isuresults.com. Retrieved 2018-10-06.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ a b "Tomoe KAWABATA: 2018/2019". International Figure Skating. Archived from the original on March 31, 2019.
- ^ Gallagher, Jack (August 8, 2019). "Top junior Tomoe Kawabata poised for a breakout season". The Japan Times.
- ^ Gallagher, Jack (November 17, 2019). "Yuma Kagiyama, Mana Kawabe leave rivals in dust to win at Japan Junior Championships". The Japan Times.
- ^ Slater, Paula (December 21, 2019). "Rika Kihira claims first Japanese National title". Golden Skate.
- ^ "ISU World Junior Figure Skating Championships Results – Junior Ladies". International Skating Union.
- ^ "川畑 和愛 KAWABATA Tomoe" (in Japanese). Japan Skating Federation. Archived from the original on 30 November 2019.
External links
Media related to Tomoe Kawabata at Wikimedia Commons