Miyabi Oba

Miyabi Oba (大庭 雅, Ōba Miyabi; born August 8, 1995) is a Japanese figure skater. She is the 2014 Cup of Nice silver medalist, 2014 Gardena Spring Trophy silver medalist, and 2013 Triglav Trophy silver medalist. At the Junior level, she is the 2012 JGP Germany silver medalist, 2013 JGP Estonia bronze medalist, and the 2010 Japanese Junior national bronze medalist.

Miyabi Oba
Born	(1995-08-08) August 8, 1995 (age 30) Tokoname, Aichi
Hometown	Seto, Aichi
Height	1.61 m (5 ft 3+1⁄2 in)
Figure skating career
Country	Japan
Coach	Yuko Monna
Skating club	Tokai Tokyo FH
Began skating	2005

Career

Oba started skating at age 10.

Oba made her international debut at the 2010 Cup of Nice. Competing on the senior level, she finished 7th. After winning the bronze medal at the 2010–11 Japanese Junior Championships, she was assigned to the 2011 World Junior Championships, where she finished 8th. The following season, she received her first ISU Junior Grand Prix assignment.

In the 2012–13 season, Oba won her first JGP medal, silver, competing at an event in Germany and placed 4th in her other JGP assignment in Turkey. Nationally, Oba placed 6th on the junior level and 11th as a senior. She ended her season with her first senior international medal, also silver, at the 2013 Triglav Trophy.

In the 2013–14 Junior Grand Prix, Oba placed 7th in Poland and then won a bronze medal in Estonia. She ended her season with another senior international silver medal at the 2014 Gardena Spring Trophy.

In the 2014–15 season, Oba made her senior Grand Prix debut at the Rostelecom Cup, where she placed 6th with a personal best free skate and total score.

Programs

Season	Short program	Free skating	Exhibition
2024–25 [1][2]	Mizu Hyakkei (水百景) by Ikuko Kawai choreo. by Satoko Miyahara	Iryū Team Medical Dragon Aesthetic Spirit (Strings Version) by Hiroyuki Sawano choreo. by Miyabi Oba and Miki Ando
2023–24 [3]	Jonetsu Tairiku by Taro Hakase choreo. by Miki Ando
2022–23	Send in the Clowns by Stephen Sondheim choreo. by Miyabi Oba
2021–22		Titanic by James Horner choreo. by Miki Ando
2020–21
2019–20 [4]	Firedance (from Riverdance) by Bill Whelan choreo. by Miki Ando
2018–19 [4]		East Of Eden by Lee Holdridge choreo. by Miki Ando
2017–18	Gabriel's Oboe (from The Mission) choreo. by Miki Ando
2016–17		The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by Harry Gregson-Williams choreo. by Kenji Miyamoto
2015–16 [5]	Resphoina by Joe Hisaishi choreo. by Kenji Miyamoto
2014–15 [6]		Les Misérables by Claude-Michel Schönberg
2013–14 [7]	Tempest by Gaetano Pugnani, Fritz Kreisler
2012–13 [8]		The Firebird by Igor Stravinsky
2011–12 [9]		Polovtsian Dances (from Prince Igor) by Alexander Borodin	Shall We Dance? (from The King and I)
2010–11 [10]	Liberty Fanfare by John Williams

Competitive highlights

GP: Grand Prix; CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix

International[11]
Event	09–10	10–11	11–12	12–13	13–14	14–15	15–16	16–17	17–18	18–19	19–20	20–21	21–22	22–23	23–24	24–25
GP Rostelecom						6th
Cup of Nice		7th				2nd
Gardena Trophy					2nd
Triglav Trophy				2nd
Universiade						7th
International: Junior[11]
Junior Worlds		8th
JGP Estonia					3rd
JGP Germany				2nd
JGP Latvia			7th
JGP Poland					7th
JGP Turkey				4th
National[12]
Japan Champ.		8th	13th	11th	10th	12th	17th	13th		19th	28th		19th	20th	21st	21st
Japan Junior	9th	3rd	5th	6th