née The birth name is the name of the person given upon their birth. The term may be applied to the surname, the given name or to the entire name. Where births are required to be officially registered, the entire name entered onto a births registe ...

, is a Japanese

figure skating Figure skating is a sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform on figure skates on ice. It was the first winter sport to be included in the Olympic Games, with its introduction occurring at the Figure skating at the 1908 Summer Olympi ...

coach and former competitor. She won gold medals at the 1977

Nebelhorn Trophy The Nebelhorn Trophy is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union (ISU), organized and hosted by the German Ice Skating Union () and held in Oberstdorf, Germany. The competition debuted in 1969 and is na ...

, 1977 Grand Prix International St. Gervais, and 1980–81 Japan Championships. Kobayashi has coached

Mao Asada is a Japanese former competitive figure skater. She is the Figure skating at the 2010 Winter Olympics - Ladies' singles, 2010 Olympic silver medalist, a three-time World Figure Skating Championships, World champion (2008, 2010, 2014), a three-t ...

, Risa Shoji, and Haruna Suzuki.

Competitive highlights

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kobayashi, Reiko 1961 births Japanese female single skaters Japanese figure skating coaches Living people Sportspeople from Hiroshima Prefecture 20th-century Japanese sportswomen