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Mone Chiba (千葉 百音, Chiba Mone, born May 1, 2005) is a Japanese figure skater. She is the 2022 JGP Poland I silver medalist, 2022 Egna Trophy bronze medalist, 2021–22 Japanese Junior National bronze medalist and two-time Challenge Cup junior champion.

Mone Chiba
Personal information
Native name	千葉 百音
Country represented	Japan
Born	(2005-05-01) May 1, 2005 (age 17) Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan
Home town	Sendai
Height	1.55 m (5 ft 1 in)
Coach	Soshi Tanaka
Former coach	Suguru Namioka, Ai Musha [1]
Choreographer	Kenji Miyamoto, Akiko Suzuki
Former choreographer	Eiji Iwamoto
Skating club	Tohoku High School
Former skating club	Sendai FSC
Training locations	Sendai
Began skating	2010
ISU personal best scores
Combined total	205.82 2022 JGP Poland
Short program	70.16 2022 JGP Poland
Free skate	135.66 2022 JGP Poland

Personal life

Chiba was born on 1 May 2005 in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. In an interview, she said that she admires her hometown and former training mate Yuzuru Hanyu, who used to play with her before moving to Toronto, Canada.[2]

Career

Early years

Chiba began skating in 2010. She placed twenty-first at 2015–16 Japan Novice B Championships and twenty-ninth at 2016–17 Japan Novice A Championships.

2017–18 season

Chiba was first after the short program at 2017 Asian Open in advanced novice category. In the free program, she downgraded a jump and had a fall. She finished in fifth place. Chiba placed sixth at 2017–18 Japan Novice A Championships.

2018–19 season

She competed at the 2018–19 Japan Junior Championships and finished in eighteenth place.

2019–20 season

Chiba placed sixth at the 2019–20 Japan Junior Championships and was then invited to compete in the senior event because forth place Momoka Hatasaki was still a novice skater. She finished in eighteenth place. She then won the 2020 Challenge Cup in junior category.

2020–21 season

She finished eighth place at the 2020–21 Japan Junior Championships and was invited to the 2020–21 Japan Championships, placing in twentieth there.

2021–22 season

At 2021–22 Japan Junior Championships, Chiba was seventh after the short. However, after a clean free program she won the bronze medal behind Rion Sumiyoshi and Mao Shimada. She finished eleventh at the senior event.

Chiba was selected to 2022 Challenge Cup in junior category and managed to win the competition once again. Two months later she was sent to 2022 Egna Trophy, now competing in the senior category. Chiba got third place behind South Korea's Hae-in Lee and Japan's Hana Yoshida.

2022–23 season

Chiba was initially scheduled to make her Junior Grand Prix debut at the Armenian stop on the 2022–23 circuit.[3] However, that was cancelled as a result of the September conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia, and skaters meant to attend were reassigned elsewhere.[4][5] Instead, she debuted at the Junior Grand Prix event in Gdańsk, Poland. In her short program, she received an edge call on her combination, but otherwise gave a clean skate which placed her first with a score of 70.16 points.[6] During the free skate, Chiba landed all her jumps, albeit with a Lutz landed on a quarter. Chiba finished in second place behind Mao Shimada.[7]

Chiba received another spot at Junior Grand Prix in Italy due to her previous results. Beyond an edge call on the triple Lutz and the triple Toe landed on a quarter, she struggled to finish the Flying Camel spin, then placing third in the short program. During the free, Chiba under-rotated her triple Toe on the first triple Lutz-triple Toe combination and fell on the second triple Lutz, receiving edge calls on both. She placed fourth overall and was named the first of three alternates for 2022–23 Junior Grand Prix Final.

Programs

Season	Short program	Free skating	Exhibition
2022–2023 [8] [9] [10]	Schindler's List by John Williams, Itzhak Perlman choreo. by Akiko Suzuki	Butterfly Lovers Concerto by Ssu-Yu Huang choreo. by Kenji Miyamoto
2021–2022 [11]	Finale (from East Of Eden) by Lee Holdridge choreo. by Akiko Suzuki	Butterfly Lovers Concerto by Ssu-Yu Huang choreo. by Kenji Miyamoto
2020–2021 [12]	Evergreen by Two Steps From Hell choreo. by Eiji Iwamoto	An American in Paris by George Gershwin choreo. by Eiji Iwamoto
2019–2020 [12]	Giselle by Adolphe Adam choreo. by Eiji Iwamoto	An American in Paris by George Gershwin choreo. by Eiji Iwamoto
2018–2019	Giselle by Adolphe Adam choreo. by Eiji Iwamoto	Csárdás by Vittorio Monti
2017–2018	Lohengrin, act III: Prelude by Richard Wagner	Csárdás by Vittorio Monti

Competitive highlights

JGP: Junior Grand Prix

International
Event	15–16	16–17	17–18	18–19	19–20	20–21	21–22	22–23
Egna Trophy							3rd
International: Junior
JGP Armenia								C
JGP Italy								4th
JGP Poland								2nd
Challenge Cup					1st		1st
International: Advanced novice
Asian Open			5th
National
Japan					18th	20th	11th
Japan Junior				18th	6th	8th	3rd
Japan Novice	21st B	29th A	6th A
A = Novice A; B = Novice B; C = Cancelled; TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew

Detailed results

Senior level

2021–22 season
Date	Event	SP	FS	Total
April 7–10, 2022	2022 Egna Springs Trophy	2 67.78	3 110.82	3 178.60
December 22–26, 2021	2021–22 Japan Championships	9 64.41	12 119.89	11 184.30
2020–21 season
Date	Event	SP	FS	Total
December 24–27, 2020	2020–21 Japan Championships	24 54.45	18 103.77	20 158.22
2019–20 season
Date	Event	SP	FS	Total
December 18–22, 2019	2019–20 Japan Championships	17 52.76	19 97.74	18 150.50

Junior level

2022–23 season
Date	Event	SP	FS	Total
October 12–15, 2022	2022 JGP Italy	3 64.07	4 121.66	4 185.73
September 28 – October 1, 2022	2022 JGP Poland I	1 70.16	2 135.66	2 205.82
2021–22 season
Date	Event	SP	FS	Total
February 24–27, 2022	2022 Challenge Cup	1 66.42	1 108.87	1 175.29
November 19–21, 2021	2021–22 Japan Junior Championships	7 58.97	2 116.44	3 175.41
2020–21 season
Date	Event	SP	FS	Total
November 21–23, 2020	2020–21 Japan Junior Championships	13 53.17	8 99.30	8 152.47
2019–20 season
Date	Event	SP	FS	Total
February 20–23, 2020	2020 Challenge Cup	1 64.65	1 117.21	1 181.86
November 15–17, 2019	2019–20 Japan Junior Championships	7 56.51	6 105.08	6 161.59
2018–19 season
Date	Event	SP	FS	Total
November 23–25, 2018	2018–19 Japan Junior Championships	8 53.50	19 83.41	18 136.91

Novice level

2017–18 season
Date	Event	SP	FS	Total
October 20–22, 2017	2017–18 Japan Novice Championships	–	6 84.11	6 84.11
August 2–5, 2017	Asian Open Trophy	1 41.35	5 59.22	5 100.57
2016–17 season
Date	Event	SP	FS	Total
October 21-23, 2016	2016–17 Japan Novice A Championships	–	29 65.11	29 65.11
2015–16 season
Date	Event	SP	FS	Total
October 23-25, 2015	2015–16 Japan Novice B Championships	–	21 53.73	21 53.73

References

External links

• Mone CHIBA at the International Skating Union
• CHIBA Mone at the Japan Skating Federation

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