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Mie Hamada
Japanese figure skater and coach
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] In the 2024 ISU Skating Awards, she won the "Best Coach" award.[4]
Her current students include:
- Ayaka Hosoda,[5] 8th at 2019 Japanese Nationals
- Vincent Zhou,[6] 2017 World Junior Champion and 2019 World bronze medalist
- Yuto Kishina,[7] JGP Lithuania and 2020 Bavarian Open bronze medalist
- Lucas Tsuyoshi Honda,[8] 2021 CS Cup of Austria silver medalist, 2020 NHK Trophy bronze medalist and 2020–21 Japan junior national champion
- Hana Yoshida,[9] 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,[10] 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,[11] 2022 Junior Grand Prix Courchevel silver medalist
- Ikura Kushida,[12] 2022 Junior Grand Prix Ostrava bronze medalist, 2023 Challenge Cup junior silver medalist
- Rika Kihira,[13] two-time Four Continents champion and 2018-19 Grand Prix Final gold medalist
- Ryoga Morimoto,[14] 2022 Junior Grand Prix Courchevel bronze medalist
- Shunsuke Nakamura,[15] 2022 Junior Grand Prix Courchevel champion, fourth place at 2022–23 Junior Grand Prix Final
- Haruya Sasaki[16]
- Mone Chiba,[17] 2024 Four Continents champion
- Haruna Murakami[18]
- Tomoki Hiwatashi[19]
- Yuna Nagaoka / Sumitada Moriguchi[20]
Her former students include:
- Kim Chae-hwa,[21]
- Yuna Shiraiwa,[22] 2015–16 Japanese Junior and 2016–17 Japanese Junior silver medalist
- Satoko Miyahara (from the age of seven),[2][23] 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[24]
- Aki Sawada,[25] 2005 ISU Junior Grand Prix Final silver medalist
- Akiko Kitamura[26]
- Taichi Honda[27]
- Marin Honda,[28] 2016 Junior World Champion, 2017 Junior Silver Medalist, and 2015–16 Junior JGP Final bronze medalist
- Riona Kato[29]
- Kana Muramoto[30] (as a singles skater)
- Satsuki Muramoto[citation needed]
- Yukina Ōta,[31] 2003 World Junior Champion
- Sara Honda
- Mana Kawabe,[32] 2019–20 Japanese Junior gold medalist
- Azusa Tanaka[33]
- Haruna Murakami / Sumitada Moriguchi,[34] 2023 Japanese Junior champions
- Young You,[35] 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.[36] Based in Kyoto until her rink closed in 2005, she now coaches at Kansai University in Takatsuki, Osaka.[2]
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