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Yuma Kagiyama
Yuma Kagiyama (鍵山 優真, Kagiyama Yūma; born May 5, 2003) is a Japanese figure skater. He is the 2022 and 2026 Olympic silver medalist, a four-time World silver medalist (2021, 2022, 2024, 2026), the 2024 Four Continents Champion, a two-time Olympic silver medalist in the team event (2022, 2026), a three-time Grand Prix Final medalist, a nine-time Grand Prix medalist (eight gold, one bronze), a three-time ISU Challenger Series medalist (two gold, one silver) and a two-time Japanese national champion (2024–25, 2025–26). At the junior level, Kagiyama is the 2020 Youth Olympic champion, the 2020 World Junior silver medalist, and the 2019–20 Japan Junior national champion.
Kagiyama is the former world junior record holder for the free skate and combined total score under the ISU Judging System. He is known for his speed, skating skills, and consistency.
Yuma Kagiyama was born in Karuizawa, Nagano, Japan, and is the son of two-time Olympian Masakazu Kagiyama. He went to Karuizawa Chubu Elementary School before moving to Kanagawa Prefecture where he attended Rokkakubashi Junior High School in Yokohama. Kagiyama graduated from SEISA Kokusai High School in Yokohama in 2022 and enrolled at Chukyo University in Nagoya later that year. He is majoring in sports science.
Kagiyama's hobbies include gaming, listening to music, photography, and watching anime. He looks up to Yuzuru Hanyu, Shoma Uno, and Nathan Chen.
Kagiyama began skating at the age of 5 at the Kazakoshi Park Ice Arena in Karuizawa where his father was working as a coach. He has been coached by his father since the beginning of his career and describes his father as an impartial coach whose strictness helped to mold him into the skater he is today. Kagiyama slowly began making a name for himself and won the gold in the Novice A Class at the 2014 Kanto Regional Figure Skating Championships at the age of 11.
Kagiyama's father and coach Masakazu suffered an intracerebral hemorrhage, was hospitalized for most of the season, and could not work on coaching the technical aspects. He instead spent time working with choreographer Misao Sato to improve his expression during this period.
Kagiyama opened his season at the 2018 Asian Open Trophy, where he won the junior title ahead of his teammate Tatsuya Tsuboi. He placed fourth at his first Junior Grand Prix event, 2018 JGP Canada. Kagiyama won his first JGP medal, a silver, at 2018 JGP Armenia. He placed fifth at the 2018–19 Japan Junior Championships, and as a result, was invited to the senior championships. Kagiyama placed sixth at the senior level and was chosen as the first alternate for the 2019 World Junior Championships team. He competed as a senior at the 2019 Challenge Cup and won the silver medal behind teammate Sōta Yamamoto.
Kagiyama won gold at 2019 JGP France with a new junior world record for the combined score. His total was 34.16 points higher than that of silver medalist Aleksa Rakic of Canada. His quadruple toe loop in the free skate set the junior record for the highest valued single jump, before being surpassed by Daniel Grassl's quadruple Lutz at 2019 JGP Italy. Kagiyama set a new junior world record in the free skating at 2019 JGP Poland, and surpassed his junior world record for the total score. However, he eventually won silver behind Daniil Samsonov of Russia, who broke his junior world records for free skating and the total score after Kagiyama skated. Kagiyama's results qualified him to the 2019–20 Junior Grand Prix Final, where he placed fourth.
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Yuma Kagiyama
Yuma Kagiyama (鍵山 優真, Kagiyama Yūma; born May 5, 2003) is a Japanese figure skater. He is the 2022 and 2026 Olympic silver medalist, a four-time World silver medalist (2021, 2022, 2024, 2026), the 2024 Four Continents Champion, a two-time Olympic silver medalist in the team event (2022, 2026), a three-time Grand Prix Final medalist, a nine-time Grand Prix medalist (eight gold, one bronze), a three-time ISU Challenger Series medalist (two gold, one silver) and a two-time Japanese national champion (2024–25, 2025–26). At the junior level, Kagiyama is the 2020 Youth Olympic champion, the 2020 World Junior silver medalist, and the 2019–20 Japan Junior national champion.
Kagiyama is the former world junior record holder for the free skate and combined total score under the ISU Judging System. He is known for his speed, skating skills, and consistency.
Yuma Kagiyama was born in Karuizawa, Nagano, Japan, and is the son of two-time Olympian Masakazu Kagiyama. He went to Karuizawa Chubu Elementary School before moving to Kanagawa Prefecture where he attended Rokkakubashi Junior High School in Yokohama. Kagiyama graduated from SEISA Kokusai High School in Yokohama in 2022 and enrolled at Chukyo University in Nagoya later that year. He is majoring in sports science.
Kagiyama's hobbies include gaming, listening to music, photography, and watching anime. He looks up to Yuzuru Hanyu, Shoma Uno, and Nathan Chen.
Kagiyama began skating at the age of 5 at the Kazakoshi Park Ice Arena in Karuizawa where his father was working as a coach. He has been coached by his father since the beginning of his career and describes his father as an impartial coach whose strictness helped to mold him into the skater he is today. Kagiyama slowly began making a name for himself and won the gold in the Novice A Class at the 2014 Kanto Regional Figure Skating Championships at the age of 11.
Kagiyama's father and coach Masakazu suffered an intracerebral hemorrhage, was hospitalized for most of the season, and could not work on coaching the technical aspects. He instead spent time working with choreographer Misao Sato to improve his expression during this period.
Kagiyama opened his season at the 2018 Asian Open Trophy, where he won the junior title ahead of his teammate Tatsuya Tsuboi. He placed fourth at his first Junior Grand Prix event, 2018 JGP Canada. Kagiyama won his first JGP medal, a silver, at 2018 JGP Armenia. He placed fifth at the 2018–19 Japan Junior Championships, and as a result, was invited to the senior championships. Kagiyama placed sixth at the senior level and was chosen as the first alternate for the 2019 World Junior Championships team. He competed as a senior at the 2019 Challenge Cup and won the silver medal behind teammate Sōta Yamamoto.
Kagiyama won gold at 2019 JGP France with a new junior world record for the combined score. His total was 34.16 points higher than that of silver medalist Aleksa Rakic of Canada. His quadruple toe loop in the free skate set the junior record for the highest valued single jump, before being surpassed by Daniel Grassl's quadruple Lutz at 2019 JGP Italy. Kagiyama set a new junior world record in the free skating at 2019 JGP Poland, and surpassed his junior world record for the total score. However, he eventually won silver behind Daniil Samsonov of Russia, who broke his junior world records for free skating and the total score after Kagiyama skated. Kagiyama's results qualified him to the 2019–20 Junior Grand Prix Final, where he placed fourth.