Mao Shimada
Japanese figure skater / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mao Shimada (島田 麻央, Shimada Mao, born October 30, 2008) is a Japanese figure skater. She is the 2024 Youth Olympic champion, a two-time World Junior champion (2023, 2024), a two-time ISU Junior Grand Prix Final champion (2022–23, 2023–24), a four-time ISU Junior Grand Prix gold medalist, a two-time Japanese national bronze medalist, and a three-time Japanese junior national champion (2021–2023). She is the twenty-first woman in history to have successfully landed a triple Axel jump, fifteenth woman to successfully land a quadruple jump and second Japanese women to land a quadruple toeloop in competition.
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Native name | 島田 麻央 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (2008-10-30) October 30, 2008 (age 15) Koganei, Tokyo, Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hometown | Uji, Kyoto | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.50 m (4 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coach | Mie Hamada, Satsuki Muramoto, Hiroaki Sato | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Skating club | Kinoshita Academy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Began skating | 2014 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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