Rika Kihira

Rika Kihira
nation	Japan
birthday	21st July 2002 (age 18)
place of birth	Nishinomiya , Japan
size	154 cm
Career
discipline	Single run
Trainer	Mie Hamada , Yamato Tamura , H. Okamoto, Cathy Reed
choreographer	David Wilson , Tom Dickson
Medal table
VKM medals 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Four continents championships gold Anaheim 2019 Ladies
Personal best
Total points 233.12 GP final 2018/19  Freestyle 83.97 (WR) World Team Trophy 2019  Short program 154.72 NHK Trophy 2018

Rika Kihira ( Japanese 紀 平 梨花 , Kihira Rika ; born July 21, 2002 in Nishinomiya ) is a Japanese figure skater who starts in a single run .

At the beginning of her first senior season in 2018/19, she immediately won her two Grand Prix , then the Grand Prix Final and the Four Continents Championships .

Athletic career

Season 2018/19

Kihira competed for the first time in the ISU Grand Prix series at the NHK Trophy in early November 2018 . She won gold with a difference of 4.86 points over Satoko Miyahara . At the end of November she won her second appearance, the Internationaux de France , with a difference of 3.11 points ahead of Mai Mihara . With two gold medals she qualified for the Grand Prix final 2018/19 and she won this event with a lead of 6.59 points over the second-placed Russian Olympic champion Alina Sagitova .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rika KIHIRA - Biography ( en ) ISU . Retrieved December 25, 2018.

Web links

Commons : Rika Kihira  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Rika Kihira in the database of the International Skating Union (English)