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Mao Shimada

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Mao Shimada (島田 麻央 Shimada Mao) is a Japanese figure skater born on 30 October 2008 in Tokyo.

She is the 2024 Youth Olympic champion, a four-time World Junior champion, a three-time ISU Junior Grand Prix Final champion, a seven-time ISU Junior Grand Prix gold medalist, a three-time Japanese national medalist, and a five-time Japanese junior national champion.

Achievements
First skater to win four consecutive Junior World titles.

First skater to win four consecutive JGP Final titles.

Second Japanese woman ever to land a quad toe.

ISU Personal Bests

Personal Best Total Score230.8401.03.2025ISU World Junior Championships 2025
Personal Best Score Short Program74.6827.02.2025ISU World Junior Championships 2025
Personal Best Score Free Skating156.1601.03.2025ISU World Junior Championships 2025

Programs
2025-2026
SP: "Get Happy;" "Sing Sing Sing;" choreo by Kaitlyn Weaver
FS: "Miracle" composed by Yoshiki; choreo by Marie France Dubreuil

2024-2025:
SP: "Defying Gravity" by Kristin Chenoweth, Idina Menzel, Stephen Schwartz
FS: "Mado Kara Mieru" by Christopher Tin, Lia, Aoi Tada, Kaori Omura; choreo by Lori Nichol; Kaitlyn Weaver

2023-2024:
SP: "Americano” by Lady Gaga and Judy Kang; "Composition" by Judy Kang, Karl Hugo
FS: "Benedictus" by Karl Jenkins; choreo by Kaitlyn Weaver, Lori Nichol

2022-2023:
SP: Lion King soundtrack; choreo by Cathy Reed
FS: "Passepied;" choreo by Lori Nicol

Competition History​

CompetitionLevelPlacement
2025-2026
2026 World Junior ChampionshipsJunior1
2025-26 Japanese NationalsSenior2
2025-26 Junior Grand Prix FinalJunior1
2025 JGP UAEJunior1
2025 JGP ThailandJunior1
2024-2025
2025 World Junior ChampionshipsJunior1
2024 Japanese NationalsSenior2
2024 Junior Grand Prix FinalJunior1
2024 JGP Solidarity CupJunior1
2024 JGP Riga CupJunior1
2024 Gensan Summer CupJunior1
2024 Kinoshita TrophyJunior1
2023-2024
2024 Junior World ChampionshipsJunior1
2023 Japanese NationalsSenior3
2023-24 Junior Grand Prix FinalJunior1
2023 Japanese Junior NationalsJunior1
2023 JGP YerevanJunior1
2023 JGP OsakaJunior1
2022-2023
2023 World Junior ChampionshipsJunior1
2023 Japanese NationalsSenior
Grand Prix and Junior Grand Prix Final 2022Junior1
Japan Junior Championships 2022Junior1
Western Section Championships 2022Junior1
JGP Gdansk 2022Junior1
JGP Ostrava 2022Junior1
2021-2022
Japan Junior Championships 2021Junior1
Japan Novice Championships 2021Advanced novice
Kinki Regional Championships 2021Advanced novice
2020-2021
Japan Junior Championships 2020Junior3
Japan Novice Championships 2020Advanced novice (A)
Kinki Regional Championships 2020Advanced novice (A)
2019-2020
Japan Novice Championships 2019Intermediate novice (B)
Tokyo Regional Championships 2019Intermediate novice (B)
2018-2019
Japan Novice Championships 2018Basic novice B
Tokyo Regional Championships 2018Basic novice B

Videos
Here are the videos of her winning programs.

Mao's Quad Toe! March 2021

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2021 junior gold FS
2021 junior SP
2021 novice A gold
2020 junior nationals bronze
2020 Novice A gold
2019 novice B gold
 
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Happy birthday to Mao!

Any news about her SP music this season? I'm looking forward junior nats. The battle for the podium will be fierce. Teammates Ayumi Shibayama and Hana Yoshida and others like Rion Sumiyoshi and Ami Nakai have strong arguments too.
 
Mao won junior nats with two clean skates (including aa 4T in the free program).
I don't recall a novice winning junior nats.
And i just checked, among Japanese ladies, i think that so far she got the highest TES for domestic comps (76.03) and is only 2nd to Mihara when we take into account international scores. That's with one less technical element than seniors :laugh:
 
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Post-competition interview with Mao Shimada (translation roughly):

www.nikkansports.com

島田麻央　荒川静香以来27年ぶり飛び級Ｖ「イナバウアーの印象」一問一答 - フィギュア : 日刊スポーツ

1つ下のカテゴリーとなるノービスの全日本女王、13歳の島田麻央（木下アカデミー）が“飛び級”で初優勝の快挙を成し遂げた。ノービス年代のジュニア制覇は94年の荒… - 日刊スポーツ新聞社のニュースサイト、ニッカンスポーツ・コム（nikkansports.com）
www.nikkansports.com www.nikkansports.com

*Shimada won the 21' Jr. Women's Nationals, as the current NvA Women's National Champion. This is since 94' when Shizuka Arakawa won the Jr. Nationals' title as the NvA Champion of that year (At that time Arakawa was a 1st-year high school student).

- In general, Mao said she was happy about the winning, and about landing the 4T in the FS program.
- She wasn't able to jump the 4T during the 6-min warming up, and she sensed that her jumping axis was off. So she made the adjustment afterwards.
- To be able to land 4T in the recent competitions including regional, NvA Nationals, and now at Jr. Nationals have helped her gain confidence.
- Comparing to NvA level skating, she had to add one more jump (and 30 sec longer) to make the Jr. program. Mao said she failed with the Jr. level program at first. So she's happy she can make the program works.
- For the future competitions (she'll turn Jr. next season), she wants to work more on the skating skills in addition to jumps, and paying attention to PCS. As for jumps, she will want to try 2 quads, and perhaps to start with 2 4Ts.
- She's happy to follow Arakawa's step and win the Jr. Nationals as NvA level skater (and her impression of Arawkawa is of course...the Ina Bauer!)
 
cohkaix said:
Post-competition interview with Mao Shimada (translation roughly):

www.nikkansports.com

島田麻央　荒川静香以来27年ぶり飛び級Ｖ「イナバウアーの印象」一問一答 - フィギュア : 日刊スポーツ

1つ下のカテゴリーとなるノービスの全日本女王、13歳の島田麻央（木下アカデミー）が“飛び級”で初優勝の快挙を成し遂げた。ノービス年代のジュニア制覇は94年の荒… - 日刊スポーツ新聞社のニュースサイト、ニッカンスポーツ・コム（nikkansports.com）
www.nikkansports.com www.nikkansports.com

*Shimada won the 21' Jr. Women's Nationals, as the current NvA Women's National Champion. This is since 94' when Shizuka Arakawa won the Jr. Nationals' title as the NvA Champion of that year (At that time Arakawa was a 1st-year high school student).

- In general, Mao said she was happy about the winning, and about landing the 4T in the FS program.
- She wasn't able to jump the 4T during the 6-min warming up, and she sensed that her jumping axis was off. So she made the adjustment afterwards.
- To be able to land 4T in the recent competitions including regional, NvA Nationals, and now at Jr. Nationals have helped her gain confidence.
- Comparing to NvA level skating, she had to add one more jump (and 30 sec longer) to make the Jr. program. Mao said she failed with the Jr. level program at first. So she's happy she can make the program works.
- For the future competitions (she'll turn Jr. next season), she wants to work more on the skating skills in addition to jumps, and paying attention to PCS. As for jumps, she will want to try 2 quads, and perhaps to start with 2 4Ts.
- She's happy to follow Arakawa's step and win the Jr. Nationals as NvA level skater (and her impression of Arawkawa is of course...the Ina Bauer!)
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Oh so Shizuka did the same thing. I hope Mao has the same bright future (with more consistency though).
Seems like her team gave up on 3A. She tried it at her first novice A nats. Too bad.
 
Are there any videos of Mao's performances at this past weekend's Kyoto Prefectural Championships?
 
Congratulation to Mao on her resounding victory. I was amazed by her performance in the SP and even more in the LP. Mao Shimada's freeskate to me was stunning in its beauty mixed with elegance and power. Despite the fall on her quad toe, she still landed a tremendous triple axel, but there were so many other fine features that impressed me even more. First of all, she conveyed a true sense of emotional resonance to the audience and engaged them in her performance by skating so close to the boards demonstrating great skating skills and rink coverage. She also had erect posture, balletic grace and extension and held a picturesque and flexible arabesque spiral for such a long time while doing a complete 360 on the ice. Furthermore, she had a really quick transition between her deep-seated sit spin and a one-handed camel position as well as doing great transitions: like the back spiral transitioning into her tano triple lutz with such model posture, lovely extension of her arms and marvelous, crisp edges with fast flow through her whole program including her jumps which had very good height and rotation. Furthermore, she is actually able to hold difficult positions and increase her speed in spins, particularly on the Biellmann and I spin.
 
I am so impressed with her. I think it is so wrong that she won't be eligible for the Olympics until she is 21 years old in 2030. Is it possible that a rule change might take place where you only have to be 17 at the time of the Games? Or just make the cutoff December 31 of their birth year, which I believe is what gymnastics does? Sofya Akatyeva is in the same situation. Ridiculous.
 
Saw her first time this week, and the girl was amazing. Normally, I don't follow JGP, with the 3A generation being the exception, but I am certainly glad that I checked some of the videos of the juniors. Especially that of Mao and Minkyu Seo.:clap:
 
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