Yasmine Kimiko Yamada

Yasmine Kimiko Yamada
Yasmine Kimiko Yamada.jpg
Yamada in 2017
Personal information
Country represented Switzerland
Born (1997-08-30) 30 August 1997
Zürich, Switzerland
Height 1.58 m (5 ft 2 in)
Coach Igor Samohin, Stanislav Samohin
Former coach Bettina Ariza-Hügin
Choreographer Irina Samohin, Olga Volozhinskaya
Former skating club Eislauf-Club Zürich
Training locations Poway, California
Former training locations Zürich
Began skating 2002
ISU personal best scores
Combined total 131.37
2017 CS Lombardia Trophy
Short program 49.76
2017 CS Lombardia Trophy
Free skate 81.61
2017 CS Lombardia Trophy

Yasmine Kimiko Yamada (born 30 August 1997) is a Swiss figure skater. She is the 2017 Swiss national champion and 2016 Sportland Trophy bronze medalist. She has competed at two World Championships.

Career

Yamada began learning to skate in 2002.[1] Making her junior international debut, she took the bronze medal at the NRW Trophy in December 2011. Coached by Bettina Ariza-Hügin in Zürich, she competed at her first ISU Junior Grand Prix assignment in September 2012, placing 15th in Istanbul, Turkey.[2]

Yamada's senior international debut came in November 2014, at the NRW Trophy. She trained in Switzerland under Ariza-Hügin until 2015.[3] Igor Samohin began coaching her in California in the 2015–2016 season.[4] Yamada won the bronze medal at the Sportland Trophy in early March 2016. Later in the same month, she appeared at her first ISU Championship, placing 34th at the World Championships in Boston.

In the 2016–2016 season, Yamada became the Swiss national champion.[5] She placed 27th at the 2017 European Championships in Ostrava, Czech Republic, and 33rd at the 2017 World Championships in Helsinki, Finland.

Programs

Season Short program Free skating
2016–2017
[1]
2015–2016
[4]
  • Danzarin
    by Tango Lorca
  • Je suis malade
    performed by Lara Fabian
2014–2015
[3]
2013–2014
[6]
  • Adiós Nonino
    by Astor Piazzolla
2012–2013
[2]
  • Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46
    Morning Mood
    by Edvard Grieg

Competitive highlights

CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix

International[7]
Event 11–12 12–13 13–14 14–15 15–16 16–17 17–18
World Champ.34th33rd
European Champ.27th
CS Finlandia18th
CS Lombardia17th
CS U.S. Classic15th11th
CS Warsaw Cup17th
Bavarian Open8th
Challenge Cup16th
Cup of Tyrol5th
Merano Cup7th7th
NRW Trophy14th
Philadelphia SI8th
Printemps6th
Santa Claus Cup6th
Seibt Memorial12th
Sportland Trophy3rd
Volvo Open6th
International: Junior[7]
JGP Czech Republic20th
JGP Slovakia19th
JGP Turkey15th
Bavarian Open2nd J3rd J6th J
Cup of Nice9th J
Ice Challenge3rd J
Merano Cup4th J
NRW Trophy3rd J
National[7]
Swiss Champ.5th7th6th3rd1st
J = Junior level

References

  1. 1 2 "Yasmine Kimiko YAMADA: 2016/2017". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 6 April 2017.
  2. 1 2 "Yasmine Kimiko YAMADA: 2012/2013". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 16 February 2013.
  3. 1 2 "Yasmine Kimiko YAMADA: 2014/2015". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 22 May 2015.
  4. 1 2 "Yasmine Kimiko YAMADA: 2015/2016". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 28 May 2016.
  5. ↑ "Stéphane Walker und Yasmine Yamada sind Schweizer Meister im Eiskunstlauf" [Stéphane Walker and Yasmine Yamada win Swiss national titles in figure skating] (in German). Luzerner Zeitung. 17 December 2016. Archived from the original on 10 April 2017.
  6. ↑ "Yasmine Kimiko YAMADA: 2013/2014". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 24 March 2014.
  7. 1 2 3 "Competition Results: Yasmine Kimiko YAMADA". International Skating Union.
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