Tomoe Kawabata

Tomoe Kawabata
Kawabata at the 2021 Cup of Austria
Native name川畑 和愛
Born (2002-01-12) January 12, 2002 (age 22)
Nisshin, Aichi, Japan
HometownTokyo, Japan
Height1.57 m (5 ft 2 in)
Figure skating career
CountryJapan
CoachYutaka Higuchi
Yukina Ota
Skating clubWaseda University
Began skating2008
Retired9 March, 2024
Japan Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2019–20 Tokyo Singles

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 at the 2019 World Junior Championships

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 twelfth 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]

2020–2021 season

Kawabata was invited to compete at the Japan Open as part of Team Red. She subsequently placed fifth at the domestic Eastern Sectionals Championship to qualify to the national championships.[10] Kawabata made her senior debut on the Grand Prix at the 2020 NHK Trophy, where she was tenth.[11] She placed eleventh at the 2020–21 Japan Championships.

Programs

Season Short program Free skating Exhibition
2021–2022
[citation needed]
2020–2021
[12][13]
2019–2020
[1]
2018–2019
[5]
  • Scheherazade
    by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
    choreo. by Nakako Tsuzuki
2017–2018
[citation needed]

Competitive highlights

GP: Grand Prix; CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix

International[2]
Event 11–12 12–13 13–14 14–15 15–16 16–17 17–18 18–19 19–20 20–21 21–22 22–23
GP NHK Trophy 10th
CS Cup of Austria 9th
International: Junior[2]
Junior Worlds 12th 14th
JGP France 5th
JGP Poland 5th
JGP Slovakia 5th
JGP Slovenia 5th
Bavarian Open 1st
Printemps WD
National[14][15]
Japan Champ. 21st 10th 3rd 11th WD
Japan Junior 15th 27th 27th 6th 3rd 2nd
Japan Novice 9th B 4th B 36th A 6th A
Eastern Sect. 4th J 3rd J 5th J 1st J 3rd J 5th 4th 8th
Kanto Reg. 8th
Tokyo Reg. 7th B 4th B 5th A 5th J 2nd J 4th 12th
Team Events[citation needed]
Japan Open 2nd T
3rd P
TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew
T = Team result; P = Personal result. Medals awarded for team result only.
Levels: A = Novice A; B = Novice B; J = Junior

Detailed results

Small medals for short and free programs awarded only at ISU Championships.

Senior results

2021–2022 season
Date Event SP FS Total
November 11–14, 2021 2021 CS Cup of Austria 6
54.34 		15
95.62 		9
149.96
2020–2021 season
Date Event SP FS Total
December 24–27, 2020 2020–21 Japan Championships 9
64.56 		12
121.62 		11
186.18
November 27–29, 2020 2020 NHK Trophy 8
59.83 		12
102.41 		10
162.24
2019–2020 season
Date Event SP FS Total
December 18–22, 2019 2020 Japan Championships 7
65.53 		3
128.43 		3
193.96
2018–2019 season
Date Event SP FS Total
December 20–24, 2018 2019 Japan Championships 7
64.66 		10
118.45 		10
183.11
2017–2018 season
Date Event SP FS Total
December 20–24, 2017 2018 Japan Championships 22
52.13 		19
106.03 		21
158.16

Junior results

2019–2020 season
Date Event SP FS Total
March 2–8, 2020 2020 World Junior Championships 10
62.85 		16
96.62 		14
159.47
November 15–17, 2019 2020 Japan Junior Championships 2
63.55 		2
115.40 		2
178.95
September 18–21, 2019 2019 JGP Poland 2
67.70 		7
110.16 		5
177.86
August 21–24, 2019 2019 JGP France 6
57.75 		4
113.92 		5
171.67
2018–2019 season
Date Event SP FS Total
March 4–10, 2019 2019 World Junior Championships 9
57.65 		13
99.82 		12
157.47
November 23–25, 2018 2019 Japan Junior Championships 12
52.05 		3
106.11 		3
158.16
October 3–10, 2018 2018 JGP Slovenia 1
66.85 		9
100.64 		5
167.49
August 22–25, 2018 2018 JGP Slovakia 5
58.89 		6
114.95 		5
173.84
2017–2018 season
Date Event SP FS Total
January 26–31, 2018 2018 Bavarian Open 1
61.39 		1
107.66 		1
169.05
November 24–26, 2017 2018 Japan Junior Championships 3
61.49 		6
106.03 		6
167.52

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c "Tomoe KAWABATA: 2019/2020". International Figure Skating. Archived from the original on November 16, 2019.
  2. ^ a b c "Competition Results: Tomoe KAWABATA". International Figure Skating. Archived from the original on November 20, 2019.
  3. ^ "2018-2019 JGP Ladies Assignments". www.isuresults.com. Retrieved October 6, 2018.
  4. ^ "2018 JGP Slovakia Ladies' Results". www.isuresults.com. Retrieved October 6, 2018.
  5. ^ a b "Tomoe KAWABATA: 2018/2019". International Figure Skating. Archived from the original on March 31, 2019.
  6. ^ Gallagher, Jack (August 8, 2019). "Top junior Tomoe Kawabata poised for a breakout season". The Japan Times.
  7. ^ Gallagher, Jack (November 17, 2019). "Yuma Kagiyama, Mana Kawabe leave rivals in dust to win at Japan Junior Championships". The Japan Times.
  8. ^ Slater, Paula (December 21, 2019). "Rika Kihira claims first Japanese National title". Golden Skate.
  9. ^ "ISU World Junior Figure Skating Championships Results – Junior Ladies". International Skating Union.
  10. ^ "2020 JAPAN OPEN & NATIONALS UPDATE". International Figure Skating.
  11. ^ "ISU GP NHK Trophy 2020". International Skating Union.
  12. ^ "Tomoe KAWABATA: 2020/2021". International Figure Skating. Archived from the original on November 27, 2020.
  13. ^ "2020 Dreams on Ice" (in Japanese). TBS. September 13, 2020.
  14. ^ "川畑 和愛 KAWABATA Tomoe" (in Japanese). Japan Skating Federation. Archived from the original on November 30, 2019.
  15. ^ "Tomoe KAWABATA". SkatingScores.