Tomoe Kawabata

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Tomoe Kawabata
Tomoe Kawabata at the 2019 Junior World Championships - FS.jpg
Kawabata at the 2019 World Junior Championships
Personal information
Native name川畑 和愛
Country representedJapan
Born (2002-01-12) January 12, 2002 (age 19)
Nisshin, Aichi, Japan
Home townTokyo, Japan
Height1.57 m (5 ft 2 in)
CoachYutaka Higuchi
Yukina Ota
Former coachNakako Tsuzuki
ChoreographerStéphane Lambiel
Former choreographerNakako Tsuzuki
Skating clubWaseda University
Former skating clubN High School FSC
Training locationsYokohama, Japan
Began skating2008
ISU personal best scores
Combined total177.86
2019 JGP Poland
Short program67.70
2019 JGP Poland
Free skate114.95
2018 JGP Slovakia

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 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
2020–2021
[12][13]
2019–2020
[1]
2018–2019
[5]
  • Scheherazade
    by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
    choreo. by Nakako Tsuzuki
2017–2018

Competitive highlights[]

GP: Grand Prix; 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
GP NHK Trophy 10th
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]
Japan Champ. 21st 10th 3rd 11th
Japan Junior 15th 27th 27th 6th 3rd 2nd
Japan Novice 9th B 4th B 36th A 6th A
Team Events
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

Detailed results[]

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

Senior results[]

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

Junior results[]

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

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Tomoe KAWABATA: 2019/2020". International Figure Skating. Archived from the original on November 16, 2019.
  2. ^ Jump up to: 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 2018-10-06.
  4. ^ "2018 JGP Slovakia Ladies' Results". www.isuresults.com. Retrieved 2018-10-06.
  5. ^ Jump up to: 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 30 November 2019.

External links[]

Media related to Tomoe Kawabata at Wikimedia Commons

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