Miki Ando

Miki Ando is a retired Japanese figure skater who was born in Nagoya in 1987 and began skating at the age of eight. She won the World Championships in 2007 and 2011, the Four Continents Championships in 2011 and the World Junior Championships in 2004, and she was Japanese national champion three times, in 2003, 2004 and 2010. At the Junior Grand Prix Final of 2002 to 2003 in The Hague she became the first woman to land a quadruple jump in competition, a quadruple Salchow, and she remained the only woman to have done so until January 2018. She competed at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. In January 2013 she left Toyota, and her daughter Himawari was born that April.