Misato Komatsubara
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Komatsubara/Koleto at the 2019 Four Continents
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Native name | 小松原 美里 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Country represented | Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||
Former country(ies) represented | Italy | |||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Tokyo, Japan |
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Partner | Tim Koleto | |||||||||||||||||||||
Former partner | Andrea Fabbri Kaoru Tsuji Kokoro Mizutani |
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Coach | Marie-France Dubreuil Patrice Lauzon Romain Haguenauer Rie Arikawa Cathy Reed |
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Former coach | Barbara Fusar-Poli Stefano Caruso Nozomi Watanabe |
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Choreographer | Romain Haguenauer | |||||||||||||||||||||
Former choreographer | Corrado Giordani Natalia Linichuk |
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Skating club | Montreal International School of Skating | |||||||||||||||||||||
Former skating club | Agora Skating Team Milan Okayama High School |
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Training locations | Montreal, Canada | |||||||||||||||||||||
Former training locations | Milan, Italy Yokohama, Japan |
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Began skating | 2001 | |||||||||||||||||||||
ISU personal best scores | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Combined total | 172.20 2021 NHK Trophy |
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Short dance | 68.13 2021 NHK Trophy |
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Free dance | 104.07 2021 NHK Trophy |
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Medal record
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Misato Komatsubara (小松原 美里 Komatsubara Misato?, born July 28, 1992) is a Japanese ice dancer. She currently represents her home country, in partnership with her husband Tim Koleto, with whom she is the 2020 NHK Trophy champion and a four-time Japanese national champion. Together, they also earned a bronze medal from the team event at the 2022 Winter Olympics.
She previously represented Italy with Andrea Fabbri, with whom she won five international medals, including silver at the 2015 CS Ice Challenge.
Contents
Personal life
Komatsubara was born on July 28, 1992, in Tokyo.[1] She speaks Japanese, English, and Italian.[2] She is vegan.[3]
Komatsubara and Tim Koleto began a relationship after partnering on-ice in 2016, and they married in January 2017 in Okayama, Japan.[4][5] Koleto adopted Komatsubara's surname upon his becoming a Japanese citizen in 2020, feeling that "to be Japanese but ask my wife to change to a foreign surname I thought was quite strange."[6]
Career
Early years
Komatsubara began learning to skate in 2001.[7] She competed for Japan with Kokoro Mizutani in the 2009–10 and 2010–11 seasons. In 2010, the two received a pair of Junior Grand Prix assignments. They were coached by Nozomi Watanabe in Yokohama, Japan.[8]
During the next two seasons, Komatsubara skated with Kaoru Tsuji. Their partnership ended in 2013. After a pause, she decided to continue skating and resumed training under Rie Arikawa in Okayama.[9]
Partnership with Fabbri
2014–15 season
Komatsubara teamed up with Italy's Andrea Fabbri. The two were coached by Barbara Fusar-Poli in Milan from December 2013.[10] They represented Italy on the senior level. Their international debut came in October 2014 at the Ondrej Nepela Trophy, a Challenger Series (CS) event where they finished 6th. After winning bronze medals at the Santa Claus Cup and Italian Championships, they were sent to the 2015 European Championships in Stockholm, where they placed 23rd. The two ended their season with gold at the Bavarian Open.
2015–16 season
In 2015–16, Komatsubara/Fabbri took bronze at the Lombardia Trophy and then appeared at two Challenger Series events, winning silver at the 2015 Ice Challenge. After obtaining another silver medal, at the 2015 Santa Claus Cup, they repeated as national bronze medalists and went on to compete at the 2016 European Championships in Bratislava, where they finished 21st. They were coached by Fusar-Poli and Stefano Caruso in Milan, Italy.[9][7]
Komatsubara and Fabbri ended their partnership in April 2016.[11]
Partnership with Koleto
2016–17 season
Komatsubara teamed up with Timothy Koleto following a tryout in Milan in April 2016.[4] They decided to train together in Milan under Barbara Fusar-Poli.[10] They received the bronze medal at the 2016–17 Japan Championships in December 2016.
2017–18 season
Making their international debut for Japan, Komatsubara/Koleto placed 8th at the CS Lombardia Trophy in September 2017. They finished 10th at their only Grand Prix assignment, the 2017 NHK Trophy. In December, the two won the silver medal at the 2017–18 Japan Championships. They placed 10th at the 2018 Four Continents Championships in late January. In early February, they placed 4th at the 2018 Toruń Cup.
2018–19 season
In March 2018, Komatsubara/Koleto announced that they had moved to Montreal, Quebec, Canada, to train under Marie-France Dubreuil, Patrice Lauzon, and Romain Haguenauer.[12] They won bronze at both of their ISU Challenger Series events, the 2018 CS Asian Open Trophy and 2018 CS US International Classic. They then competed at two Grand Prix assignments, placing eighth at the 2018 NHK Trophy and eighth at the 2018 Rostelecom Cup.
Following the Rostelecom Cup, the team moved to train in Japan (coached by Rie Arikawa) in order for Koleto to meet a residency requirement for a future citizenship application.[2] They won their first ice dance title at the 2018-19 Japan Championships in December 2018. They placed ninth at the 2019 Four Continents Championships after placing ninth in both segments. Komatsubara/Koleto represented Japan at their first World Championships, held in Saitama, where they placed twenty-first in the rhythm dance, missing the free dance by one ordinal.
To conclude the season, they participated in the 2019 World Team Trophy as part of Team Japan, which won the silver medal, though Komatsubara/Koleto placed sixth of sixth competitors in each of their segments. Komatsubara served as the Japanese team captain.[13]
2019–20 season
Initially scheduled to begin the season at the 2019 CS Autumn Classic International, Komatsubara/Koleto withdrew early in the preseason, as a result of Komatsubara having sustained multiple concussions that necessitated time away from training.[14] They later made their season debut at a different Challenger, the 2019 CS Asian Open, where they finished ninth.[15] On the Grand Prix, they were tenth out of ten teams at the 2019 Cup of China, and then withdrew from the 2019 NHK Trophy.
Returning to competition at the 2019–20 Japan Championships, they won their second consecutive national title.[16][17] Komatsubara/Koleto finished eleventh at the 2020 Four Continents Championships. They were also assigned to compete at the World Championships in Montreal, but these were cancelled as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.[18]
2020–21 season
With the pandemic continuing to affect international travel, the ISU opted to base the Grand Prix primarily on geographic location, and Komatsubara/Koleto were assigned to compete at the 2020 NHK Trophy in a field consisting of only three Japanese dance teams, including the newly debuted pairing of former national champion Kana Muramoto and former Olympic medalist singles skater Daisuke Takahashi. The event occurred a week after Koleto successfully obtained Japanese citizenship, making the team eligible to represent Japan at the Winter Olympics, and he said it was "great to share this moment with the Japanese audience." They placed first in the rhythm dance by over six points.[19] Winning the free dance as well, they took the title, the first Japanese dance team to win the NHK Trophy in its history.[20]
Competing at the 2020–21 Japan Championships, Komatsubara/Koleto placed first in the rhythm dance, four points ahead of Muramoto/Takahashi.[21] They won the free dance by almost twenty points, with both the silver and bronze medalists making serious errors, and took their third consecutive national title. They were named as Japan's representatives to the 2021 World Championships in Stockholm.[22] They placed nineteenth, making the free dance for the first time.[23] Komatsubara/Koleto's result qualified a berth for a Japanese dance team at the 2022 Winter Olympics.[24]
Komatsubara/Koleto finished the season at the 2021 World Team Trophy, where they placed fifth in both of their segments of the competition and Team Japan won the bronze medal.[25][26][27]
2021–22 season
In preparing their programs for the Olympic season, Komatsubara and Koleto briefly contemplated a Japanese theme for their rhythm dance, but opted against it because Koleto felt "it could be difficult for me as a Caucasian man to skate to a Japanese style. How can I respectfully portray my country that I care so much about in a way that doesn’t feel like a Halloween costume, in a way that doesn’t feel like a joke." Instead they chose a free dance to John Williams' score for Memoirs of a Geisha, as Komatsubara felt "there were pieces of our story, pieces of our road, all inside of this music in this movie."[6]
Komatsubara/Koleto made their season debut at the 2021 Skate America, where they placed fifth.[28] At their second event on the Grand Prix, the 2021 NHK Trophy, they finished in seventh place, 7.30 points behind domestic rivals Muramoto/Takahashi. Koleto said afterward "there were a lot of things that didn’t go as we wanted them," but expressed satisfaction at having achieved new personal bests. He said that their goal was to score over 180 points at the national championships.[29]
The 2021–22 Japan Championships, the final national qualification event for the 2022 Winter Olympics, pitted Komatsubara/Koleto against Muramoto/Takahashi for the second time that season. They won the rhythm dance despite Komatsubara having a twizzle error due to their rivals both falling. Second in the free dance, they won the title overall, and were subsequently named to the Japanese Olympic team.[30]
Komatsubara/Koleto began the 2022 Winter Olympics as the Japanese entries in the rhythm dance segment of the Olympic team event. They placed seventh in the segment, securing four points for Team Japan.[31] They went on to finish fifth of the five dance teams in the free segment, taking six points for Japan. The Japanese team ultimately won the bronze medal, making the podium in the team event for the first time.[32] In the dance event, Komatsubara/Koleto were twenty-second in the rhythm dance, missing the cut for the free dance.[33]
Programs
With Koleto
Season | Rhythm dance | Free dance | Exhibition |
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2021–2022 [34] |
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2020–2021 [35][36] |
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2019–2020 [37] |
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2018–2019 [38] |
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2017–2018 [1][4][39] |
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2016–2017 |
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With Fabbri
Season | Short dance | Free dance |
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2015–2016 [7] |
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2014–2015 [40] |
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With Mizutani
Season | Short dance | Free dance |
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2010–2011 [8] |
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Competitive highlights
GP: Grand Prix; CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix
With Koleto for Japan
International[28] | |||||||
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Event | 16–17 | 17–18 | 18–19 | 19–20 | 20–21 | 21–22 | 22–23 |
Olympics | 22nd | ||||||
Worlds | 21st | C | 19th | ||||
Four Continents | 10th | 9th | 11th | ||||
GP Cup of China | 10th | ||||||
GP NHK Trophy | 10th | 8th | WD | 1st | 7th | ||
GP Rostelecom | 8th | ||||||
GP Skate America | 6th | ||||||
GP Skate Canada | TBD | ||||||
CS Asian Open | 3rd | 9th | WD | ||||
CS Autumn Classic | WD | ||||||
CS Lombardia | 8th | ||||||
CS U.S. Classic | 3rd | ||||||
CS Warsaw Cup | WD | ||||||
Toruń Cup | 4th | ||||||
National[41] | |||||||
Japan Champ. | 3rd | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | |
Team events | |||||||
Olympics | 3rd T | ||||||
World Team Trophy | 2nd T 6th P |
3rd T 5th P |
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TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew; C = Event cancelled T = Team result; P = Personal result. Medals awarded for team result only. |
With Fabbri for Italy
International[42] | ||
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Event | 14–15 | 15–16 |
European Champ. | 23rd | 21st |
CS Denkova-Staviski Cup | 4th | |
CS Ice Challenge | 5th | 2nd |
CS Nepela Trophy | 6th | |
Bavarian Open | 1st | |
Lombardia Trophy | 3rd | |
Santa Claus Cup | 3rd | 2nd |
National[42] | ||
Italian Champ. | 3rd | 3rd |
With Tsuji for Japan
National | ||
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Event | 11–12 | 12–13 |
Japan Championships | 4th | |
Japan Junior Champ. | 1st |
With Mizutani for Japan
International[43] | ||
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Event | 09–10 | 10–11 |
World Junior Champ. | 14th PR | |
JGP Germany | 15th | |
JGP Japan | 11th | |
Bavarian Open | 5th J | |
National[44] | ||
Japan Junior Champ. | 1st | 1st |
J = Junior level; PR = Preliminary round |
Women's singles
National[44] | |
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Event | 07–08 |
Japan Junior Champ. | 23rd |
Detailed results
Senior results
With Koleto for Japan
2021–22 season | ||||
Date | Event | RD | FD | Total |
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February 12–14, 2022 | 2022 Winter Olympics | 22 65.41 |
— | 22 65.41 |
February 4–7, 2022 | 2022 Winter Olympics — Team event | 7 66.54 |
5 98.66 |
3T |
December 22–26, 2021 | 2021–22 Japan Championships | 1 68.16 |
2 110.01 |
1 178.17 |
November 12–14, 2021 | 2021 NHK Trophy | 7 68.13 |
7 104.07 |
7 172.20 |
October 22–24, 2021 | 2021 Skate America | 7 63.56 |
6 100.76 |
6 164.32 |
2020–21 season | ||||
Date | Event | RD | FD | Total |
April 15–18, 2021 | 2021 World Team Trophy | 5 66.42 |
5 100.82 |
3T/5P 167.24 |
March 22–28, 2021 | 2021 World Championships | 18 68.02 |
20 99.79 |
19 167.81 |
December 24–27, 2020 | 2020–21 Japan Championships | 1 71.74 |
1 103.49 |
1 175.23 |
November 27–29, 2020 | 2020 NHK Trophy | 1 70.76 |
1 108.29 |
1 179.05 |
2019–20 season | ||||
Date | Event | RD | FD | Total |
February 4–9, 2020 | 2020 Four Continents Championships | 11 61.45 |
10 95.75 |
11 157.20 |
December 18–22, 2019 | 2019–20 Japan Championships | 1 63.79 |
1 99.52 |
1 163.31 |
November 8–10, 2019 | 2019 Cup of China | 10 56.60 |
10 88.75 |
10 145.35 |
October 30 - November 3, 2019 | 2019 CS Asian Open Trophy | 9 55.39 |
9 86.70 |
9 142.09 |
2018–19 season | ||||
Date | Event | RD | FD | Total |
April 11–14, 2019 | 2019 World Team Trophy | 6 60.93 |
6 99.31 |
2T/6P 160.24 |
March 18–24, 2019 | 2019 World Championships | 21 60.98 |
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February 7-10, 2019 | 2019 Four Continents Championships | 9 54.94 |
9 94.20 |
9 149.14 |
December 20–24, 2018 | 2018–19 Japan Championships | 1 52.21 |
1 100.39 |
1 152.60 |
November 16–18, 2018 | 2018 Rostelecom Cup | 8 52.99 |
8 90.29 |
8 143.28 |
November 9–11, 2018 | 2018 NHK Trophy | 9 59.40 |
8 94.87 |
8 154.27 |
September 12–16, 2018 | 2018 CS US International Classic | 4 53.42 |
3 89.51 |
3 142.93 |
August 1–5, 2018 | 2018 CS Asian Open Trophy | 3 61.28 |
2 93.47 |
3 154.75 |
2017–18 season | ||||
Date | Event | SD | FD | Total |
Jan. 30–Feb. 4, 2018 | 2018 Toruń Cup | 4 58.90 |
4 88.96 |
4 147.86 |
January 22–28, 2018 | 2018 Four Continents Championships | 10 52.45 |
9 85.73 |
10 138.18 |
December 20–24, 2017 | 2017–18 Japan Championships | 2 56.65 |
2 92.82 |
2 149.47 |
November 10–12, 2017 | 2017 NHK Trophy | 10 53.83 |
10 78.58 |
10 132.41 |
September 14–17, 2017 | 2017 CS Lombardia Trophy | 9 49.80 |
6 78.48 |
8 128.28 |
2016–17 season | ||||
Date | Event | SD | FD | Total |
December 22–25, 2016 | 2016–17 Japan Championships | 3 51.47 |
3 73.85 |
3 125.12 |
With Fabbri for Italy
2015–16 season | ||||
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Date | Event | SD | FD | Total |
January 25–31, 2016 | 2016 European Championships | 21 49.56 |
DNQ | 21 49.56 |
December 16–19, 2015 | 2016 Italian Championships | 3 56.50 |
3 87.84 |
3 144.34 |
Nov. 28–Dec. 4, 2015 | 2015 Santa Claus Cup | 3 54.32 |
2 88.23 |
2 142.55 |
October 20–25, 2015 | 2015 CS Denkova-Staviski Cup | 5 48.14 |
4 82.74 |
4 245.95 |
October 27–31, 2015 | 2015 CS Ice Challenge | 2 51.76 |
3 74.90 |
2 126.66 |
September 17–20, 2015 | 2015 Lombardia Trophy | 3 47.05 |
3 76.83 |
3 123.88 |
2014–15 season | ||||
Date | Event | SD | FD | Total |
February 11–15, 2015 | 2015 Bavarian Open | 1 | 1 | 1 142.38 |
Jan. 26–February 1, 2015 | 2015 European Championships | 23 42.83 |
DNQ | 23 42.83 |
December 20–21, 2014 | 2015 Italian Championships | 3 59.75 |
4 80.68 |
3 140.43 |
December 1–7, 2014 | 2014 Santa Claus Cup | 3 51.60 |
3 77.77 |
3 129.37 |
November 11–16, 2014 | 2014 CS Ice Challenge | 4 50.16 |
6 76.98 |
5 127.14 |
October 1–5, 2014 | 2014 CS Ondrej Nepela Trophy | 6 42.98 |
5 65.50 |
6 108.48 |
With Tsuji for Japan
2012–13 season | ||||
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Date | Event | SD | FD | Total |
December 20–24, 2012 | 2012 Japanese Championships | 4 34.27 |
3 57.90 |
4 92.17 |
Junior results
With Tsuji for Japan
2011–12 season | ||||
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Date | Event | SD | FD | Total |
November 25–27, 2011 | 2011 Japanese Junior Championships | 1 33.04 |
1 40.86 |
1 73.92 |
With Mizutani for Japan
2010–11 season | |||||
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Date | Event | PR | SD | FD | Total |
Feb. 28–March. 6, 2011 | 2011 World Junior Championships | 14 48.87 |
DNQ | DNQ | 28 |
February 9–13, 2011 | 2011 Bavarian Open | – | 8 36.16 |
5 59.31 |
5 95.47 |
November 26–28, 2010 | 2010 Japanese Junior Championships | – | 1 42.02 |
1 61.85 |
1 103.87 |
November 10–12, 2017 | 2010 SBC Cup | – | 11 35.86 |
11 53.18 |
11 89.04 |
September 14–17, 2017 | 2010 Pokal der Blauen Schwerter | – | 11 38.16 |
16 51.56 |
15 89.72 |
2009–10 season | |||||
Date | Event | CD | OD | FD | Total |
November 21–23, 2009 | 2009 Japanese Junior Championships | 1 23.49 |
1 37.50 |
1 61.61 |
1 122.60 |
References
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External links
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- Olympic figure skaters of Japan
- Olympic bronze medalists for Japan
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- Olympic medalists in figure skating