- Japan’s Shimada feels stronger after tough senior debut season
- Sudden death of Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya sends shock waves through skating world
- World Junior title a ‘springboard’ for Andrei Mozalev
- Repetition is key for USA’s Alysa Liu
- Panfilova and Rylov: ‘We need to move on’
- Andrew Torgashev: ‘I’ve grown a lot over the years’
All posts tagged "Wakaba Higuchi"
-
Kihira defends title at Four Continents
Embed from Getty Images 2020 Four Continents Ladies’ Free Skate Japan’s Rika Kihira defended her title on...
-
Japan’s Kihira leads ladies at Four Continents
Embed from Getty Images 2020 Four Continents Ladies’ Short Program Rika Kihira of Japan took the lead in...
-
Rika Kihira claims first Japanese National title
Embed from Getty Images 2019-20 Japanese Figure Skating Championships Ladies’ Free Skate Surprises were in abundance at...
-
Rika Kihira leads ladies at Japanese Nationals
Embed from Getty Images 2019-20 Japanese Figure Skating Championships Ladies’ Short Program Rika Kihira took first in...
-
Russia’s Alena Kostornaia takes gold in Grand Prix debut
2019 Internationaux de France Ladies’ Free Skate In her Grand Prix debut, Russia’s Alena Kostornaia took the gold...
-
Alena Kostornaia of Russia leads ladies in Grand Prix debut
2019 Internationaux de France Ladies’ Short Program In her Grand Prix debut, Russia’s Alena Kostornaia sits in...
-
Shcherbakova of Russia captures gold at Skate America in Grand Prix debut
2019 Skate America Ladies’ Free Skate In her debut on the Grand Prix circuit, Anna Shcherbakova of...
-
USA’s Bradie Tennell leads at 2019 Skate America
2019 Skate America Ladies Short Program USA’s Bradie Tennell took the lead in the Ladies’ Short Program...
-
Sakamoto shakes it up at Japanese Nationals; win’s first title
2018-19 Japanese Figure Skating Championships Ladies Kaori Sakamoto edged out Rika Kihira to claim her first national...
-
Tuktamysheva cruises to the lead at Skate Canada
2018 Skate Canada Ladies’ Figure Skating Elizaveta Tuktamysheva of Russia took the lead in the Ladies’ Short...
-
Canada’s Osmond cinches gold at Worlds
2018 World Figure Skating Championships: Ladies Free Skate In what was a surprising turn of events in...
-
Miyahara captures fourth national title in Tokyo
Figure Skating News Satoko Miyahara won her fourth consecutive national title at the 2017-18 Japanese National Figure...
-
Zagitova pockets gold at Grand Prix Final debut
Figure Skating News Alina Zagitova of Russia captured the gold in her debut at the 2017-18 Grand...
-
Zagitova captures gold in Grand Prix debut
Figure Skating News Alina Zagitova jumped from fourth place after the short program to win the ISU...
-
Medvedeva: ‘Discipline’ is key to success
Two-time World Champion Evgenia Medvedeva achieved another breakaway victory in Moscow by scoring 231.21 points to win...
-
Japan’s “power girl” Higuchi gears up for Olympic year
Following the retirement of Mao Asada and Kanako Murakami, the attention in Japan is shifting to the...
-
Japan wins World Team Trophy
Japan’s up and coming Mai Mihara and Wakaba Higuchi carried their team to the gold medal at...
-
Miyahara claims third consecutive national title
Having captured the national title for the last two years, Satoko Miyahara, the reigning Grand Prix Final...
-
Anna Pogorilaya shines in Sapporo
Anna Pogorilaya of Russia continued her successful season with a second Grand Prix gold medal at 2016...
-
Evgenia Medvedeva unbeatable again in Paris
Evgenia Medvedeva of Russia once more reigned supreme and won the Ladies competition at 2016 Trophee de...
Did You Know?
Jackson Haines (1840–1875) was an American ballet dancer and figure skater who is regarded as the father of modern figure skating. He was the inventor of the sit spin—one of the three basic spin types, and was inducted into both the World and United States Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 1976.
