Mako Yamashita (Japanese: 山下 真瑚; born December 31, 2002) is a Japanese figure skater. She is the 2018 Skate Canada silver medalist and a two-time medalist at the ISU Challenger Series. On the junior level, she is the 2018 World Junior bronze medalist, a four-time medalist on the ISU Junior Grand Prix series, and the 2017–18 Japanese junior national silver medalist.[4]
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Native name | 山下 真瑚 | |||||||||||||
Country represented | ![]() | |||||||||||||
Born | (2002-12-31) December 31, 2002 (age 19) Nagoya, Japan | |||||||||||||
Home town | Nagoya, Japan | |||||||||||||
Height | 1.51 m (4 ft 11+1⁄2 in) | |||||||||||||
Coach | Machiko Yamada Mihoko Higuchi | |||||||||||||
Choreographer | Machiko Yamada Mihoko Higuchi | |||||||||||||
Skating club | Chukyo High School SC | |||||||||||||
Former skating club | Grand Prix Tokai SC | |||||||||||||
Training locations | Nagoya | |||||||||||||
Began skating | 2009 | |||||||||||||
Season's bests | 15 (2018–19)[1] 24 (2017–18)[2] 33 (2016–17)[3] | |||||||||||||
ISU personal best scores | ||||||||||||||
Combined total | 203.06 2018 Skate Canada | |||||||||||||
Short program | 66.30 2018 Skate Canada | |||||||||||||
Free skate | 136.76 2018 Skate Canada | |||||||||||||
Medal record
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Yamashita was born on 31 December 2002 in Nagoya, Japan.
Yamashita won two bronze medals at the ISU Junior Grand Prix series.
In September 2017, Yamashita won the bronze medal at the ISU Junior Grand Prix in Salzburg, Austria behind Anastasia Tarakanova (Russia) and Lim Eun-soo (South Korea). She then won the silver medal at her next JGP event, held in Zagreb, Croatia, behind Sofia Samodurova (Russia).
In March 2018, Yamashita won the bronze medal at the 2018 World Junior Figure Skating Championships.
In August 2018, Yamashita won the bronze medal at the 2018 CS Asian Trophy, behind Lim Eun-soo and Yuna Shiraiwa. In September, she also won the bronze medal at the 2018 CS Lombardia Trophy, behind Elizaveta Tuktamysheva and Sofia Samodurova.
In October, Yamashita debuted on the ISU Grand Prix series in the 2018–19 season. She won the silver medal at 2018 Skate Canada behind Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, and ahead of Evgenia Medvedeva, the 2018 Olympic silver medalist. She then competed at 2018 Rostelecom Cup where she placed seventh.
Yamashita began the season with a sixth place at the 2019 CS Ondrej Nepela Memorial. She finished twelfth out of twelve skaters at the 2019 Skate America.[5] Yamashita fared better at the 2019 NHK Trophy, where she placed fifth.[6]
At the 2019–20 Japanese Championships, Yamashita was fifth in the short program, but dropped to eleventh place overall after finishing sixteenth in the free skate.[7]
Yamashita was invited to be a part of Team Red at the Japan Open after the withdrawal of Marin Honda.[8] Competing domestically, she placed sixth at Western Sectionals.[9]
With the COVID-19 pandemic prompting the ISU to assign the Grand Prix based primarily on geographic location to limit international travel, Yamashita was assigned to compete at the 2020 NHK Trophy as part of a field of Japanese skaters and South Korea's You Young. She placed third in the short program.[10] In the free skate, Yamashita attempted a quad Salchow in international competition for the first time, landing it with a full downgrade, as well as making errors on two other jumps. She dropped to fifth place overall.[11]
Yamashita placed thirteenth at the 2020–21 Japan Championships.[12]
Yamashita placed thirteenth for the second consecutive year at the 2021–22 Japan Championships.[12]
Season | Short program | Free skating | Exhibition |
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2021–2022 |
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2020–2021 [13] |
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2019–2020 [14][15] |
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2018–2019 [16] |
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2017–2018 [17] |
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2016–2017 [18] |
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2015–2016 |
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GP: Grand Prix; CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix
International[12] | ||||||||||
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Event | 12–13 | 13–14 | 14–15 | 15–16 | 16–17 | 17–18 | 18–19 | 19–20 | 20–21 | 21–22 |
GP NHK Trophy | 5th | 5th | ||||||||
GP Rostelecom | 7th | |||||||||
GP Skate America | 12th | |||||||||
GP Skate Canada | 2nd | |||||||||
CS Asian Open | 3rd | |||||||||
CS Lombardia | 3rd | |||||||||
CS Ondrej Nepela | 6th | |||||||||
International: Junior[12] | ||||||||||
Junior Worlds | 3rd | |||||||||
JGP Austria | 3rd | |||||||||
JGP Croatia | 2nd | |||||||||
JGP Estonia | 3rd | |||||||||
JGP Japan | 3rd | |||||||||
Asian Open | 4th | |||||||||
National[19] | ||||||||||
Japan Champ. | 10th | 6th | 11th | 13th | 13th | |||||
Japan Junior | 9th | 16th | 2nd | |||||||
Japan Novice | 15th B | 3rd B | 14th A | 2nd A | ||||||
Team Events | ||||||||||
Japan Open | 2nd T 1st P | |||||||||
TBD = Assigned T = Team Result; P = Personal Result; Medals awarded for team result only. Levels: A = Novice A; B = Novice B |
2021–22 season | ||||
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Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
December 22–26, 2021 | 2021–22 Japan Championships | 12 61.84 |
13 117.77 |
13 179.61 |
2020–21 season | ||||
Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
December 24–27, 2020 | 2020–21 Japan Championships | 4 67.28 |
13 118.28 |
13 185.56 |
November 27–29, 2020 | 2020 NHK Trophy | 3 67.56 |
7 118.57 |
5 186.13 |
2019–20 season | ||||
Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
December 18–22, 2019 | 2019–20 Japan Championships | 5 66.64 |
16 104.11 |
11 170.75 |
November 22–24, 2019 | 2019 NHK Trophy | 5 65.70 |
5 123.55 |
5 189.25 |
October 18–20, 2019 | 2019 Skate America | 12 46.21 |
11 96.19 |
12 142.40 |
September 19–21, 2019 | 2019 CS Nepela Memorial | 7 55.99 |
6 107.55 |
6 163.54 |
2018–19 season | ||||
Date | Event | SP | FS | Total |
December 20–24, 2018 | 2018–19 Japan Championships | 9 62.94 |
5 134.20 |
6 197.14 |
November 16–18, 2018 | 2018 Rostelecom Cup | 9 51.00 |
7 110.22 |
7 161.22 |
October 26–28, 2018 | 2018 Skate Canada International | 3 66.30 |
2 136.76 |
2 203.06 |
September 12–16, 2018 | 2018 CS Lombardia Trophy | 5 55.33 |
3 126.89 |
3 182.22 |
August 1–5, 2018 | 2018 CS Asian Open Trophy | 6 50.97 |
3 112.48 |
3 163.45 |
Small medals for short and free programs awarded only at ISU Championships.
2017–18 season | |||||
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Date | Event | Level | SP | FS | Total |
March 5–11, 2018 | 2018 World Junior Championships | Junior | 3 66.79 |
3 128.38 |
3 195.17 |
December 21–24, 2017 | 2017–18 Japan Championships | Senior | 15 57.80 |
10 125.54 |
10 183.34 |
November 24–26, 2017 | 2017–18 Japan Junior Championships | Junior | 1 65.13 |
2 124.90 |
2 190.03 |
September 27–30, 2017 | 2017 JGP Croatia | Junior | 2 65.22 |
2 110.53 |
2 175.75 |
August 31–September 2, 2017 | 2017 JGP Austria | Junior | 3 64.49 |
3 116.55 |
3 181.04 |
August 2–5, 2017 | 2017 Asian Open Trophy | Junior | 4 54.45 |
4 114.35 |
4 168.80 |
2016–17 season | |||||
Date | Event | Level | SP | FS | Total |
November 18–20, 2016 | 2016–17 Japan Junior Championships | Junior | 22 42.28 |
12 97.53 |
16 139.81 |
September 28 – October 2, 2016 | 2016 JGP Estonia | Junior | 2 62.65 |
3 121.41 |
3 184.06 |
September 7–11, 2016 | 2016 JGP Japan | Junior | 2 64.86 |
4 117.57 |
3 182.43 |
2015–16 season | |||||
Date | Event | Level | SP | FS | Total |
November 21–23, 2015 | 2015–16 Japan Junior Championships | Junior | 12 51.40 |
9 107.81 |
9 159.21 |
October 23–25, 2015 | 2015–16 Japan Novice Championships | Novice | – | 2 99.91 |
2 99.91 |
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