Tomoe Kawabata

Japanese figure skater

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Tomoe Kawabata

Kawabata at the 2019 World Junior Championships

Native name| 川畑 和愛
Born|  (2002-01-12) January 12, 2002 (age 22)
Nisshin, Aichi, Japan
Hometown| Tokyo, Japan
Height| 1.57 m (5 ft 2 in)
Figure skating career
Country| Japan
Coach| Yutaka Higuchi
Yukina Ota
Skating club| Waseda University
Began skating| 2008

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[edit]

### Early years[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

Season  | Short program | Free skating | Exhibition

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2021–2022
[citation needed] |

* Les Parapluies de Cherbourg
by Michel Legrand
performed by Nana Mouskouri

* Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35
by Erich Korngold

2020–2021
[12][13] |

* Tasogare no Waltz
by Takashi Kako
performed by Taro Hakase
choreo. by David Wilson

* Yumeji's Theme
(from Yumeji)
by Shigeru Umebayashi
* Sikuriadas
by Inti-Illimani
choreo. by Stéphane Lambiel

* The Blue Danube
by Johann Strauss II
choreo. by Stéphane Lambiel

2019–2020
[1] |

* The Blue Danube
by Johann Strauss II
choreo. by Stéphane Lambiel

* Yumeji's Theme
(from Yumeji)
by Shigeru Umebayashi
* Sikuriadas
by Inti-Illimani
choreo. by Stéphane Lambiel

* La La Land
by Justin Hurwitz

2018–2019
[5] |

* Scheherazade
by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
choreo. by Nakako Tsuzuki

* Concerto in F
by George Gershwin
performed by André Previn
choreo. by Nakako Tsuzuki

* Scheherazade
by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
choreo. by Nakako Tsuzuki

2017–2018
[citation needed] |

* The Swan
(from Carnival of the Animals)
by Camille Saint-Saëns

* La La Land
by Justin Hurwitz

## Competitive highlights[edit]

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[edit]

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

### Senior results[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

* Biography portal
* Sports portal
* Japan portal

## References[edit]

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.

## External links[edit]

* Media related to Tomoe Kawabata at Wikimedia Commons
* Tomoe Kawabata at the International Skating Union