Japanese figure skater and coach
Mie Hamada |
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Native name | 濱田 美栄 |
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Born | (1959-10-29) October 29, 1959 (age 64) Kyoto, Japan |
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Mie Hamada (濱田 美栄, Hamada Mie, born October 29, 1959)[1] is a Japanese figure skating coach and former competitor.
Hamada graduated from Doshisha University in 1983.[2] She coached at the Kansai University Skating Club in Takatsuki, Osaka with Yamato Tamura before relocating to the Kinoshita Academy Kyoto Ice Arena in Uji in 2020.[3]
Her current students include:
- Ayaka Hosoda,[4] 8th at 2019 Japanese Nationals
- Vincent Zhou,[5] 2017 World Junior Champion and 2019 World bronze medalist
- Yuto Kishina,[6] JGP Lithuania and 2020 Bavarian Open bronze medalist
- Lucas Tsuyoshi Honda,[7] 2021 CS Cup of Austria silver medalist, 2020 NHK Trophy bronze medalist and 2020–21 Japan junior national champion
- Hana Yoshida,[8] 2022 Junior Grand Prix Courchevel gold medalist, 2019-20 Japan junior national bronze medalist, 2020–21 Japan junior national silver medalist, and Bavarian Open junior champion
- Mao Shimada,[9] 2023 World Junior champion, two-time Japanese Junior National Champion (2022, 2023) champion, 2022–23 Junior Grand Prix Final champion and 2022 Egna Trophy advanced novice champion
- Ayumi Shibayama,[10] 2022 Junior Grand Prix Courchevel silver medalist
- Ikura Kushida,[11] 2022 Junior Grand Prix Ostrava bronze medalist, 2023 Challenge Cup junior silver medalist
- Rika Kihira,[12] two-time Four Continents champion and 2018-19 Grand Prix Final gold medalist
- Ryoga Morimoto,[13] 2022 Junior Grand Prix Courchevel bronze medalist
- Shunsuke Nakamura,[14] 2022 Junior Grand Prix Courchevel champion, fourth place at 2022–23 Junior Grand Prix Final
- Haruya Sasaki[15]
- Mone Chiba,[16] 2024 Four Continents champion
- Haruna Murakami[17]
- Tomoki Hiwatashi[18]
- Yuna Nagaoka / Sumitada Moriguchi[19]
Her former students include:
- Kim Chae-hwa,[20]
- Yuna Shiraiwa,[21] 2015–16 Japanese Junior and 2016–17 Japanese Junior silver medalist
- Satoko Miyahara (from the age of seven),[2][22] 2015 World silver medalist and 2018 World bronze medalist and 4-time Japanese National champion (2014-2017) and 2016 Four Continents gold medalist
- Mariko Kihara[23]
- Aki Sawada,[24] 2005 ISU Junior Grand Prix Final silver medalist
- Akiko Kitamura[25]
- Taichi Honda[26]
- Marin Honda,[27] 2016 Junior World Champion, 2017 Junior Silver Medalist, and 2015–16 Junior JGP Final bronze medalist
- Riona Kato[28]
- Kana Muramoto[29] (as a singles skater)
- Satsuki Muramoto[citation needed]
- Yukina Ōta,[30] 2003 World Junior Champion
- Sara Honda
- Mana Kawabe,[31] 2019–20 Japanese Junior gold medalist
- Azusa Tanaka[32]
- Haruna Murakami / Sumitada Moriguchi,[33] 2023 Japanese Junior champions
- Young You,[34] 2020 Four Continents silver medalist, 4-time South Korean National champion (2015, 18–20) and 2019 Skate Canada bronze medalist.
Hamada is a member of the Japan Figure Skating Instructor Association.[35] Based in Kyoto until her rink closed in 2005, she now coaches at Kansai University in Takatsuki, Osaka.[2]