Tim Koleto

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Tim Koleto
2018 Rostelecom Cup Misato Komatsubara Tim Koleto 2018-11-17 16-13-05 (2).jpg
Koleto and Komatsubara at the 2018 Rostelecom Cup
Personal information
Full nameTimothy Koleto
Alternative namesTakeru Komatsubara (小松原 尊)
Country represented Japan
Former country(ies) representedNorway
South Korea
United States
Born (1991-06-17) June 17, 1991 (age 30)
Kalispell, Montana, United States
Height1.87 m (6 ft 1+1⁄2 in)
PartnerMisato Komatsubara
Former partnerThea Rabe
Yura Min
CoachMarie-France Dubreuil
Patrice Lauzon
Romain Haguenauer
Rie Arikawa
Cathy Reed
Former coachIgor Shpilband
Adrienne Lenda
Fabian Bourzat
Greg Zuerlein
Barbara Fusar-Poli
Stefano Caruso
ChoreographerRomain Haguenauer
Skating clubMontreal International School of Skating
Former skating clubKurashiki FSC
Trondheim SC
SC of Novi
Training locationsMontreal
Former training locationsMilan, Novi, Michigan
Began skating1998
ISU personal best scores
Combined total167.81
2021 World Championships
Short dance68.02
2021 World Championships
Free dance100.82
2021 World Team Trophy
Medal record

Timothy Koleto (小松原 尊, Komatsubara Takeru, born June 17, 1991) is an American-born Japanese ice dancer. With his wife, Misato Komatsubara, he is the 2020 NHK Trophy gold medalist and a three-time Japanese national champion.

Earlier in his career, Koleto competed with Yura Min for South Korea, winning the 2014 national title and placing tenth at the 2014 Four Continents. He also competed with Thea Rabe for Norway.

Personal life[]

Koleto was born June 17, 1991, in Kalispell, Montana.[1] He married Misato Komatsubara in January 2017 in Okayama, Japan.[2][3] He is studying Japanese.[4] Koleto became a Japanese citizen on November 19, 2020.[5]

Career[]

Early years[]

Koleto began learning to skate in 1998.[1] He placed 6th in the junior men's category at the 2012 U.S. Championships. He dislocated his knee and partially tore his hamstring and lateral collateral ligament while practicing a triple Axel jump in June 2012.[6] During practice in December, he twisted his ankle and tore the tibiofibular ligament.[6]

Partnership with Min[]

2013–14 season[]

Koleto switched to ice dancing and teamed up with Yura Min in April 2013.[7] They placed 9th at the 2013 Ukrainian Open in December 2013. They were the only senior ice dance team competing at the 2014 South Korean Championships and they won with a score of 105.49. Representing South Korea, the duo placed tenth at the 2014 Four Continents Championships. At the 2014 Bavarian Open, they placed tenth.

2014–15 season[]

They placed eighth at an ISU Challenger Series event, the 2014 CS Nebelhorn Trophy. They finished fifth at their last event together, the International Cup of Nice in October 2014. Igor Shpilband and Greg Zuerlein coached them in Novi, Michigan.[8]

Partnership with Rabe[]

Koleto had tryouts with Norway's Thea Rabe in November 2014 in Lyon, France, and the following month in Novi, Michigan.[9] They agreed to skate together for Norway. In May 2015, Rabe moved to the United States to train with Koleto.[10] Igor Shpilband, Adrienne Lenda, Fabian Bourzat, and Greg Zuerlein coached the team in Novi, Michigan.[11]

2015–16 season[]

After being released by South Korea and sitting out one year, as required by the International Skating Union, Koleto became eligible to compete for Norway beginning October 20, 2015.[9] Making their international debut, Rabe/Koleto won the bronze medal at the Volvo Open Cup in November 2015. They placed 8th at both the Open d'Andorra and the CS Warsaw Cup. Despite qualifying to the 2016 European Championships, they decided to end their partnership a few weeks before the event.[10][12] They were Norway's first-ever ice dancing team.[9]

Partnership with Komatsubara[]

2016–17 season[]

Koleto teamed up with Misato Komatsubara following a tryout in Milan in April 2016.[2] They decided to train together in Milan under Barbara Fusar-Poli.[13] They received the bronze medal at the 2016–17 Japan Championships in December 2016.

2017–18 season[]

Making their international debut for Japan, Komatsubara/Koleto placed 8th at the CS Lombardia Trophy in September 2017. They finished 10th at their sole Grand Prix event, the 2017 NHK Trophy. In December, the two won the silver medal at the 2017–18 Japan Championships. They placed 10th at the 2018 Four Continents Championships with a historic personal best score of 138.18. They placed 4th at the 2018 Toruń Cup.

2018–19 season[]

In March 2018, Komatsubara/Koleto announced that they had moved to Montreal, Quebec, Canada, to train under Marie-France Dubreuil, Patrice Lauzon, and Romain Haguenauer.[14] They won bronze at both of their ISU Challenger Series events, the 2018 CS Asian Open Trophy and 2018 CS US International Classic. They then competed at two Grand Prix assignments, placing eighth at the 2018 NHK Trophy and eighth at the 2018 Rostelecom Cup.

Following the 2018 Rostelecom Cup, they moved to train in Japan (coached by Rie Arikawa) in order for Koleto to meet a residency requirement for a future citizenship application.[4] At the 2018–19 Japanese Championships, they won the event after placing first in both segments. They placed ninth at the 2019 Four Continents Championships after placing ninth in both segments. Komatsubara/Koleto represented Japan at their first World Championships, held in Saitama, where they placed twenty-first in the rhythm dance, missing the free dance by one ordinal.

To conclude the season, they participated in the 2019 World Team Trophy as part of Team Japan, which won the silver medal, though Komatsubara/Koleto placed sixth of sixth competitors in each of their segments. Komatsubara served as the Japanese team captain.[15]

2019–20 season[]

Initially scheduled to begin the season at the 2019 CS Autumn Classic International, Komatsubara/Koleto withdrew early in the preseason, as a result of Komatsubara having sustained multiple concussions that necessitated time away from training.[16] They later made their season debut at a different Challenger, the 2019 CS Asian Open, where they finished ninth.[17] On the Grand Prix, they were tenth out of ten teams at the 2019 Cup of China, and then withdrew from the 2019 NHK Trophy.

Returning to competition at the 2019–20 Japan Championships, they won their second consecutive national title.[18][19] Komatsubara/Koleto finished eleventh at the 2020 Four Continents Championships. They were also assigned to compete at the World Championships in Montreal, but these were cancelled as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.[20]

2020–21 season[]

With the pandemic continuing to affect international travel, the ISU opted to base the Grand Prix primarily on geographic location, and Komatsubara/Koleto were assigned to compete at the 2020 NHK Trophy in a field consisting of only three Japanese dance teams, including the newly debuted pairing of former national champion Kana Muramoto and former Olympic medalist singles skater Daisuke Takahashi. The event occurred a week after Koleto successfully obtained Japanese citizenship, making the team eligible to represent Japan at the Winter Olympics, and he said it was "great to share this moment with the Japanese audience." They placed first in the rhythm dance by over six points.[21] Winning the free dance as well, they took the title, the first Japanese dance team to win the NHK Trophy in its history.[22]

Competing at the 2020–21 Japan Championships, Komatsubara/Koleto placed first in the rhythm dance, four points ahead of Muramoto/Takahashi.[23] They won the free dance by almost twenty points, with both the silver and bronze medalists making serious errors, and took their third consecutive national title. They were named as Japan's representatives to the 2021 World Championships in Stockholm.[24] They placed nineteenth, making the free dance for the first time.[25] Komatsubara/Koleto's result qualified a berth for a Japanese dance team at the 2022 Winter Olympics.[26]

Komatsubara/Koleto finished the season at the 2021 World Team Trophy, where they placed fifth in both of their segments of the competition and Team Japan won the bronze medal.[27][28][29]

Programs[]

With Komatsubara[]

Season Rhythm dance Free dance Exhibition
2020–2021
[30]
2019–2020
[31]
2018–2019
[32]
  • Tango: El Sol Sueno
    by Gidon Kremer
  • Tango: Sueno de Barrilete
    by Susana Rinaldi
    choreo. by Marie-France Dubreuil, Romain Haguenauer
Short dance Free dance Exhibition
2017–2018
[1][2][33]
  • Salsa: Ahora Quien
    by Marc Anthony
  • Rhumba: Ahora Quien
    by Marc Anthony
  • Samba: Samba do Brasil (Radio Remix)
    by Bellini
    choreo. by Barbara Fusar-Poli
2016–2017

[33]

With Rabe[]

Season Short dance Free dance
2015–2016
[11][9]
  • Peer Gynt
    by Edvard Grieg
    • Morning
    • In the Hall of the Mountain King
      choreo. by Igor Shpilband, Fabian Bourzat

With Min[]

Season Short dance Free dance
2014–2015
[8][6]
2013–2014
[34]
  • Quickstep: Kap'n Kid
  • Foxtrot: Un mate in luca
    by Raphael Gualazzi
  • Quickstep: Kap'n Kid

Competitive highlights[]

GP: Grand Prix; CS: Challenger Series

With Komatsubara for Japan[]

International[35]
Event 16–17 17–18 18–19 19–20 20–21 21–22
Worlds 21st C 19th
Four Continents 10th 9th 11th
GP Cup of China 10th
GP NHK Trophy 10th 8th WD 1st TBD
GP Rostelecom 8th
GP Skate America TBD
CS Asian Open 3rd 9th
CS Autumn Classic WD
CS Lombardia 8th
CS U.S. Classic 3rd
Toruń Cup 4th
National[36]
Japan Champ. 3rd 2nd 1st 1st 1st
Team events
World Team Trophy 2nd T
6th P		 3rd T
5th P
TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew; C = Event cancelled
T = Team result; P = Personal result. Medals awarded for team result only.

With Rabe for Norway[]

International[37]
Event 2015–16
CS Warsaw Cup 8th
Volvo Open Cup 3rd
Open d'Andorra 8th

With Min for South Korea[]

International[38]
Event 2013–14 2014–15
Four Continents Champ. 10th
CS Nebelhorn Trophy 8th
Bavarian Open 10th
Cup of Nice 5th
Ukrainian Open 9th
National
South Korean Champ. 1st

Men's singles[]

National[39]
Event 07–08 08–09 09–10 10–11 11–12 12–13
U.S. Championships 11th N 10th J 6th J
Midwestern Sectionals 4th N 3rd J 1st J 5th
Southwestern Regionals 5th N 7th N 2nd N
Levels: N = Novice; J = Junior

Detailed results[]

With Komatsubara for Japan[]

ISU personal best scores highlighted in bold. Historic (ie before the 2018–19 season) ISU personal best scores highlighted in bold and italicized.

2020–21 season
Date Event RD FD Total
April 15–18, 2021 2021 World Team Trophy 5
66.42 		5
100.82 		3T/5P
167.24
March 22–28, 2021 2021 World Championships 18
68.02 		20
99.79 		19
167.81
December 24–27, 2020 2020–21 Japan Championships 1
71.74 		1
103.49 		1
175.23
November 27–29, 2020 2020 NHK Trophy 1
70.76 		1
108.29 		1
179.05
2019–20 season
Date Event SD FD Total
February 4 – 9, 2020 2020 Four Continents Championships 11
61.45 		10
95.75 		11
157.20
December 18–22, 2019 2019–20 Japan Championships 1
63.79 		1
99.52 		1
163.31
November 8–10, 2019 2019 Cup of China 10
56.60 		10
88.75 		10
145.35
October 30 - November 3, 2019 2019 CS Asian Open Trophy 9
55.39 		9
86.70 		9
142.09
2018–19 season
Date Event RD FD Total
April 11–14, 2019 2019 World Team Trophy 6
60.93 		6
99.31 		2T/6P
160.24
March 18–24, 2019 2019 World Championships 21
60.98 		- 21
60.98
February 7-10, 2019 2019 Four Continents Championships 9
54.94 		9
94.20 		9
149.14
December 20–24, 2018 2018–19 Japan Championships 1
52.21 		1
100.39 		1
152.60
November 16–18, 2018 2018 Rostelecom Cup 8
52.99 		8
90.29 		8
143.28
November 9–11, 2018 2018 NHK Trophy 9
59.40 		8
94.87 		8
154.27
September 12–16, 2018 2018 CS US International Classic 4
53.42 		3
89.51 		3
142.93
August 1–5, 2018 2018 CS Asian Open Trophy 3
61.28 		2
93.47 		3
154.75
2017–18 season
Date Event SD FD Total
Jan. 30–Feb. 4, 2018 2018 Toruń Cup 4
58.90 		4
88.96 		4
147.86
January 22–28, 2018 2018 Four Continents Championships 10
52.45 		9
85.73 		10
138.18
December 20–24, 2017 2017–18 Japan Championships 2
56.65 		2
92.82 		2
149.47
November 10–12, 2017 2017 NHK Trophy 10
53.83 		10
78.58 		10
132.41
September 14–17, 2017 2017 CS Lombardia Trophy 9
49.80 		6
78.48 		8
128.28
2016–17 season
December 22–25, 2016 2016–17 Japan Championships 3
51.47 		3
73.85 		3
125.12

With Rabe for Norway[]

2015–16 season
Date Event SD FD Total
November 27–29, 2015 2015 CS Warsaw Cup 8
42.66 		8
65.14 		8
107.80
November 19–22, 2015 2015 Open d'Andorra 6
47.63 		8
61.31 		8
108.94
November 4–8, 2015 2015 Volvo Open Cup 4
47.96 		4
74.07 		3
122.03

With Min for South Korea[]

2014–15 season
Date Event SD FD Total
October 15–19, 2014 2014 International Cup of Nice 6
40.04 		4
68.84 		5
108.88
September 24–27, 2014 2014 CS Nebelhorn Tropy 8
40.10 		8
63.36 		8
103.46
2013–14 season
Date Event SD FD Total
January 29–February 2, 2014 2014 Bavarian Open 10
44.53 		10
65.68 		10
110.21
January 22–28, 2018 2014 Four Continents Championships 8
45.12 		10
66.11 		10
111.23
January 3–5, 2014 2014 South Korean Championships 1
41.64 		1
63.85 		1
105.49
December 18–20, 2013 2013 Ukrainian Open 8
41.26 		10
63.43 		9
104.69

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