Rika Kihira

Rika Kihira
Kihira at the 2019 Four Continents
Native name	紀平 梨花 (Kihira Rika)
Born	(2002-07-21) 21 July 2002 (age 22) Nishinomiya, Japan
Height	1.55 m (5 ft 1 in)
Figure skating career
Country	Japan
Discipline	Women's singles
Coach	Brian Orser Tracy Wilson Paige Aistrop Mie Hamada
Skating club	Toyota Motor Corporation (training at Toronto CSCC)
Began skating	2007
Competitive	2014–present
Highest WS	1st (2020–2021)
Four Continents Championships 2019 Anaheim Singles 2020 Seoul Singles Grand Prix Final 2018–19 Vancouver Singles Japan Championships 2019–20 Tokyo Singles 2020–21 Nagano Singles 2018–19 Osaka Singles 2017–18 Tokyo Singles World Team Trophy 2019 Fukuoka Team 2021 Osaka Team

Rika Kihira (Japanese: 紀平 梨花; born 21 July 2002) is a Japanese figure 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). As of 25 March 2022, Kihira is the twelfth highest ranked women's singles skater in the world by the International Skating Union.

On the junior level, she is the 2016 JGP Slovenia champion, the 2016 JGP Czech Republic silver medalist, the 2017 JGP Latvia silver medalist, and the 2017 Japanese junior national champion.

Kihira is the seventh woman to have landed the triple Axel jump in an International Skating Union competition, the first ever woman to land a triple Axel-triple toe loop combination,^[1] the first woman to land eight clean triples in a free skate,^[2] the second woman to land four clean triples in the short program,^[3] and the third woman to land twelve clean triples in one competition (all the maximum allowed under the Zayak rule).