Mao Asada

Mao Asada
Mao Asada at the 2014 World Championships.
Native name	浅田 真央
Born	(1990-09-25) 25 September 1990 (age 33) Meitō-ku, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
Height	1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)
Figure skating career
Country	Japan
Discipline	Women's singles
Skating club	Chukyo University
Began skating	1995
Competitive	1999–2017
Professional	2017–present
Highest WS	1st (2007, 2008, 2014)
Medal record
Event Olympic Games 0 1 0 World Championships 3 1 1 Four Continents Championships 3 2 1 Grand Prix Final 4 2 0 Japanese Championships 6 3 2 World Team Trophy 0 0 2 World Junior Championships 1 1 0 Junior Grand Prix Final 1 0 0 Medal list Olympic Games 2010 Vancouver Singles World Championships 2008 Gothenburg Singles 2010 Turin Singles 2014 Saitama Singles 2007 Tokyo Singles 2013 London Singles Four Continents Championships 2008 Goyang Singles 2010 Jeonju Singles 2013 Osaka Singles 2011 Taipei Singles 2012 Colorado Springs Singles 2009 Vancouver Singles Grand Prix Final 2005–06 Tokyo Singles 2008–09 Goyang Singles 2012–13 Sochi Singles 2013–14 Fukuoka Singles 2006–07 St. Petersburg Singles 2007–08 Turin Singles Japanese Championships 2006–07 Nagoya Singles 2007–08 Kadoma Singles 2008–09 Nagano Singles 2009–10 Kadoma Singles 2011–12 Kadoma Singles 2012–13 Sapporo Singles 2004–05 Yokohama Singles 2005–06 Tokyo Singles 2010–11 Kadoma Singles 2013–14 Saitama Singles 2015–16 Sapporo Singles World Team Trophy 2009 Tokyo Team 2013 Tokyo Team World Junior Championships 2005 Kitchener Singles 2006 Ljubljana Singles Junior Grand Prix Final 2004–05 Helsinki Singles

Mao Asada (浅田 真央, Asada Mao, born 25 September 1990) is a Japanese former competitive figure skater. She is the 2010 Olympic silver medalist, a three-time World champion (2008, 2010, 2014), a three-time Four Continents champion (2008, 2010, 2013), and a four-time Grand Prix Final champion (2005–06, 2008–09, 2012–13, 2013–14). She is the first female figure skater who has landed three triple Axel jumps in one competition, which she achieved at the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Asada is also the 2005 World Junior champion, the 2004–05 Junior Grand Prix Final champion, and a six-time Japanese national champion (2006–2009, 2011–2012).

She is the former world record holder for the ladies' short program score, which she set at the 2014 World Championships and held until it was broken by Evgenia Medvedeva in 2016.^[1] A former prodigy, Asada is the fifth woman and the first junior girl to land the triple Axel, accomplishing this at the 2004–05 Junior Grand Prix Final. She won her first Grand Prix Final at the age of 15. Considered by many to be the best figure skater in the world at that time, Asada was 87 days too young to compete at the 2006 Winter Olympics. She is the first figure skater in a singles discipline from Asia to win multiple world championships. At the 2013 Skate America, she became the first singles skater, male or female, to win all seven of the current events on the Grand Prix series.^[2] She holds 15 Grand Prix series titles, the second-highest total among ladies and the sixth-highest total among skaters of all four disciplines.

Due to her collection of ISU titles surpassing any other ladies singles figure skater during her time, she has established herself as one of the most highly recognized athletes in Japan and is widely considered to be among the best ladies figure skaters of all time.^[3][4] She is credited with being one of the pioneering ladies skaters that truly combined athleticism and artistry. Notable athletes including Yuzuru Hanyu and Shoma Uno regard Asada as their role model.