Yasmine Kimiko Yamada (born 30 August 1997) is a Swiss

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. She is the 2019 Open Ice Mall Cup champion, the 2016 Sportland Trophy bronze medalist, the 2019

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bronze medalist, and the 2017 Swiss national champion. She competed in the final segment at the 2019 European Championships.

Career

Yamada began learning to skate in 2002. Making her junior international debut, she took the bronze medal at the

NRW Trophy The NRW Trophy (also known as the NRW Summer Trophy or the NRW Autumn Trophy) is an annual international figure skating competition organized by the Skating Union of North Rhine-Westphalia. Since 2007, it has been sanctioned by the Deutsche Eisla ...

in December 2011. Coached by Bettina Ariza-Hügin in

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, she competed at her first

ISU Junior Grand Prix The ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating (titled the ISU Junior Series in the 1997–98 season) is a series of international figure skating competition, junior-level competitions organized by the International Skating Union. Medals are awarded ...

assignment in September 2012, placing 15th in

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, Turkey. Yamada's senior international debut came in November 2014 at the NRW Trophy. She trained in Switzerland under Ariza-Hügin until 2015. Igor Samohin began coaching her in California in the 2015–2016 season. Yamada won the bronze medal at the Sportland Trophy in early March 2016. Later in the same month, she appeared at her first ISU Championship, placing 34th at the

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. In the 2016–2017 season, Yamada became the Swiss national champion. She placed 27th at the 2017 European Championships in

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, Czech Republic, and 33rd at the 2017 World Championships in

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, Finland.

Programs

Competitive highlights

''CS: Challenger Series; JGP:

Junior Grand Prix The ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating (titled the ISU Junior Series in the 1997–98 season) is a series of international junior-level competitions organized by the International Skating Union. Medals are awarded in the disciplines of men ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Yamada, Yasmine Kimiko 1997 births Swiss female single skaters Living people Figure skaters from Zurich Swiss people of Japanese descent 21st-century Swiss sportswomen