Yuna Shiraiwa

Yuna Shiraiwa
Native name	白岩 優奈
Born	(2001-11-26) November 26, 2001 Kyoto, Japan
Height	1.45 m (4 ft 9 in)
Figure skating career
Country	Japan
Coach	Mie Hamada, Yamato Tamura, Haruko Okamoto
Skating club	Kyoto Daigo FSC
Began skating	2006

Yuna Shiraiwa (白岩 優奈, Shiraiwa Yūna, born November 26, 2001) is a Japanese figure skater. She has won gold medals at two ISU Junior Grand Prix events.

Career

Early years

Shiraiwa began skating in 2006. She competed at the 2014–15 Japan Junior Championships but did not qualify for the free skate, having ranked 27th in the short program.

2015–16 season

Shiraiwa debuted on the ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) circuit during the 2015–16 season. At her first JGP assignment, in Colorado Springs, Colorado, she placed fifth in the short program and first in the free skate, winning the gold medal by a margin of 8.06 points ahead of silver medalist Marin Honda. Ranked third in the short and first in the free, she outscored Russia's Alisa Fedichkina by 0.42 for gold at the JGP in Logroño, Spain. Shiraiwa's results qualified her for the JGP Final in Barcelona.

In November, Shiraiwa won the silver medal at the 2015-16 Japanese Junior Championships behind Wakaba Higuchi.

A month later, at the JGP Final, Shiraiwa finished 5th.

Making her debut at the Japan Championships on the senior level, Shiraiwa placed 5th, and was named as a member of the Youth Olympic and the Junior World teams.

Programs

Season	Short program	Free skating	Exhibition
2015–2016	Over the Rainbow by Harold Arlen choreo. by Cathy Reed	A Little Night Music: Night Waltz Send in the Clowns Night Waltz by Stephen Sondheim choreo. by Tom Dickson	Defying Gravity (from Wicked) performed by Idina Menzel
2014–2015		Giselle by Adolphe Adam

Competitive highlights

JGP: Junior Grand Prix

International: Junior, Novice
Event	2012–13	2013–14	2014–15	2015–16
Youth Olympics				4th
Junior Worlds				4th
JGP Final				5th
JGP Spain				1st
JGP United States				1st
Bavarian Open			2nd N.
National
Japan Champ.				5th
Japan Junior			27th	2nd
Japan Novice	3rd	5th	4th
Team events
Youth Olympics				5th T (1st P)
N. = Advanced novice level T = Team result; P = Personal result; Medals awarded for team result only.

Detailed results

2015–16 season
Date	Event	Level	SP	FS	Total
14–20 March 2016	2016 World Junior Championships	Junior	8 56.23	5 115.36	4 171.59
12–21 February 2016	2016 Youth Olympic Games	Junior	1 60.87	5 105.79	4 166.66
24–27 December 2015	2015–16 Japan Championships	Senior	6 61.92	5 124.41	5 186.33
10–13 December 2015	2015−16 JGP Final	Junior	5 60.68	5 113.14	5 173.82
21–23 November 2015	2015–16 Japanese Junior Championships	Junior	2 62.77	2 121.39	2 184.16
30 September–4 October 2015	2015 JGP Spain	Junior	3 62.51	1 124.29	1 186.80
2–5 September 2015	2015 JGP United States	Junior	5 56.26	1 108.24	1 164.50
2014–15 season
Date	Event	Level	SP	FS	Total
11–15 February 2015	2014 Bavarian Open	Novice	2 39.03	2 70.43	2 109.46
22–24 November 2014	2014–15 Japanese Junior Championships	Junior	27 40.07	-	-

External links

• Yuna Shiraiwa at the International Skating Union