Tomoe Kawabata
Tomoe Kawabata is a Japanese figure skater. She is the 2019–20 Japanese national bronze medalist. She has represented Japan at two World Junior Championships.
Career
Early years
Kawabata began learning to skate in 2008. Making her junior debut, she placed 15th at the 2015 Japan Championships. She competed as a senior at the 2018 Japan Championships and finished in 21st place. In January 2018, she won gold in the junior ladies' category at the Bavarian Open.2018–2019 season
Kawabata received two 2018–19 Junior Grand Prix assignments. She placed fifth in the short program, sixth in the free skate, and fifth overall at JGP Slovakia, held in Bratislava, Slovakia, and had the same final result at JGP Slovenia held in Ljubljana, Slovenia.She finished twelfth at the 2019 World Junior Championships. She was coached by former ice dancer Nakako Tsuzuki in Yokohama and Kanawaga.
2019–2020 season
Kawabata made a coaching change in July 2019, joining Yukina Ota and Yutaka Higuchi at the Meiji Jingu rink in Tokyo. She again placed fifth at both of her JGP assignments. At the Japan Championships, she won silver in the junior event and then bronze in the senior event.Finishing the season at the 2020 World Junior Championships, Kawabata placed fourteenth.