Miyabi Oba

Miyabi Oba
Born August 8, 1995
Tokoname, Aichi
Hometown Seto, Aichi
Height 1.61 m (5 ft 3+1⁄2 in)
Figure skating career
Country Japan
Coach Yuko Monna
Skating club Tokai Tokyo FH
Began skating 2005

Miyabi Oba (大庭 雅, Ōba Miyabi, born August 8, 1995) is a Japanese figure skater who competes in ladies' singles. She has won silver medals on the senior international level at the 2014 Cup of Nice, 2014 Gardena Spring Trophy, and 2013 Triglav Trophy.

Career

Oba started skating at age 10.

Oba made her international debut at the 2010 Cup of Nice. Competing on the senior level, she finished 7th. After winning the bronze medal at the 2010–11 Japanese Junior Championships, she was assigned to the 2011 World Junior Championships, where she finished 8th. The following season, she received her first ISU Junior Grand Prix assignment.

In the 2012–13 season, Oba won her first JGP medal, silver, competing at an event in Germany and placed 4th in her other JGP assignment in Turkey. Nationally, Oba placed 6th on the junior level and 11th as a senior. She ended her season with her first senior international medal, also silver, at the 2013 Triglav Trophy.

In the 2013–14 Junior Grand Prix, Oba placed 7th in Poland and then won a bronze medal in Estonia. She ended her season with another senior international silver medal at the 2014 Gardena Spring Trophy.

In the 2014–15 season, Oba made her senior Grand Prix debut at the Rostelecom Cup, where she placed 6th with a personal best free skate and total score.

Programs

Season Short program Free skating Exhibition
2023–24
2022–23
2021–22
2020–21
2019–20

2018–19

2017–18
2016–17
2015–16
2014–15
2013–14
  • Les Misérables
    by Claude-Michel Schönberg
2012–13
  • Tempest
    by Gaetano Pugnani, Fritz Kreisler
2011–12
  • Tempest
    by Gaetano Pugnani, Fritz Kreisler
2010–11
  • Polovtsian Dances
    (from Prince Igor)
    by Alexander Borodin

Competitive highlights

GP: Grand Prix; CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix

International
Event 09–10 10–11 11–12 12–13 13–14 14–15 15–16 16–17 17–18 18–19 19–20 20–21 21–22 22–23 23–24
GP Rostelecom 6th
Cup of Nice 7th 2nd
Gardena Trophy 2nd
Triglav Trophy 2nd
Universiade 7th
International: Junior
Junior Worlds 8th
JGP Estonia 3rd
JGP Germany 2nd
JGP Latvia 7th
JGP Poland 7th
JGP Turkey 4th
National
Japan Champ. 8th 13th 11th 10th 12th 17th 13th 19th 28th 19th 20th 21st
Japan Junior 9th 3rd 5th 6th
Japan Western Sect. 5th J 2nd J 2nd 1st 9th 3rd 14th 4th 11th 21st 7th 6th 5th
Chubu Reg. 2nd J 1st 2nd 3rd 2nd 4th 3rd 6th 4th 4th 4th
J: Junior level