Rika Kihira is a Japanese figure skater, born in 2002 in Nishinomiya. She began skating in 2007, and as a junior won the 2016 Junior Grand Prix in Slovenia and the 2017 Japanese junior national title. As a senior she won the 2018 Grand Prix Final, the Four Continents Championships in 2019 and 2020, and two Japanese national titles. She became the first woman to land a triple Axel and triple toe loop combination in competition, and the first to land eight clean triple jumps in a free skate, which she did as a junior. In 2020 she announced that she would study at Waseda University through correspondence courses.
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born 21 July 2002
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she is a two-time Four Continents champion
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As a singles skater, she is a two-time Four Continents champion (2019, 2020), the 2018 Grand Prix Final champion, a four-time Grand Prix series medalist (2018 NHK Trophy gold, 2018 Internationaux de France gold, 2019 Skate Canada silver, 2019 NHK Trophy silver), a two-time International Challenge Cup champion, and a two-time Japanese national champion (2019, 2020).
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a Japanese figure skater
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Kihira was chosen to represent Japan at the 2021 World Championships
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