is a retired Japanese figure skater. She is the 2019–20 Japanese national bronze medalist. She has represented Japan at two World Junior Championships.
Career Early years Kawabata began learning to skate in 2008. 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.
2018–2019 season
Kawabata received two 2018–19 Junior Grand Prix (JGP) assignments. She placed fifth in the short program, sixth in the free skate, and fifth overall at JGP Slovakia, held in Bratislava, Slovakia, 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.
2019–2020 season Kawabata made a coaching change in July 2019, joining Yukina Ota and Yutaka Higuchi at the Meiji Jingu rink in Tokyo. 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.
Finishing the season at the 2020 World Junior Championships, Kawabata placed fourteenth.
2020–2021 season 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. Kawabata made her senior debut on the Grand Prix at the 2020 NHK Trophy, where she was tenth. She placed eleventh at the 2020–21 Japan Championships.
Programs Season Short program Free skating Exhibition 2021–2022 Les Parapluies de Cherbourg Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35 2020–2021 Tasogare no Waltz Yumeji's Theme SikuriadasThe Blue Danube 2019–2020 The Blue DanubeLa La Land 2018–2019 Scheherazade Concerto in F Scheherazade 2017–2018 The Swan La La Land
Competitive highlights GP: Grand Prix; CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix
International Event 14–15 15–16 16–17 17–18 18–19 19–20 20–21 21–22 NHK Trophy 10th Cup of Austria 9th International: Junior Junior Worlds 12th 14th France 5th Poland 5th Slovakia 5th Slovenia 5th Bavarian Open 1st Printemps WD National Japan Champ. 21st 10th 3rd 11th WD Japan Junior 15th 27th 27th 6th 3rd 2nd Team Events Japan Open 2nd T3rd P
Detailed results
Small medals for short and free programs awarded only at ISU Championships.
Senior results 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 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
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