All posts tagged "Wakaba Higuchi"

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...
Japan’s Marin Honda ends Russia’s golden streak

Marin Honda of Japan ended Russia’s golden streak in the Ladies event at the 2016 ISU World...
Higuchi shows promise for Japanese ladies

Japan’s Wakaba Higuchi took the junior scene by storm this season, showing all the qualities to become...

Sonja Henie (8 April 1912 – 12 October 1969) was a Norwegian figure skater who won more Olympic gold medals and World titles than any other ladies figure skater. She was a three-time Olympic Champion (1928, 1932, 1936), a ten-time World Champion (1927–1936) and a six-time European Champion (1931–1936).