Mao Shimada
Shimada during the short program at the 2024–25 Junior Grand Prix Final | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Native name | 島田 麻央 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | October 30, 2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Home town | Uji, Kyoto | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.51 m (4 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Figure skating career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country | Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Women's singles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coach | Mie Hamada, Satsuki Muramoto, Hiroaki Sato, Noriyuki Kanzaki | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Skating club | Kinoshita Academy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Began skating | 2014 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Mao Shimada (島田 麻央, Shimada Mao; born October 30, 2008) is a Japanese figure skater. She is the 2024 Youth Olympic champion, a four-time World Junior champion (2023, 2024, 2025, 2026), a four-time ISU Junior Grand Prix Final champion (2022–23, 2023–24, 2024–25, 2025-26), an eight-time ISU Junior Grand Prix gold medalist, a three-time Japanese national medalist (silver in 2025, bronze in 2023 and 2024), and a five-time Japanese junior national champion (2021–2025). She is the twenty-first woman in history to have successfully landed a triple Axel jump, fourteenth woman to successfully land a quadruple jump and second Japanese woman to land a quadruple toeloop in competition.
Not yet age eligible for senior events, Shimada has won all 19 international events she has competed in, accomplishing a Junior Golden Slam as well as 4 consecutive Junior Grand Slams, making her the most dominant skater in the junior field in the history of figure skating.