# 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.

## 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 | 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 | Jonetsu Tairiku by Taro Hakase choreo. by Miki Ando | Iryū Team Medical Dragon Aesthetic Spirit (Strings Version) by Hiroyuki Sawano choreo. by Miyabi Oba and Miki Ando | |
| 2022–23 | Send in the Clowns by Stephen Sondheim choreo. by Miyabi Oba | Iryū Team Medical Dragon Aesthetic Spirit (Strings Version) by Hiroyuki Sawano choreo. by Miyabi Oba and Miki Ando | |
| 2021–22 | Send in the Clowns by Stephen Sondheim choreo. by Miyabi Oba | Titanic by James Horner choreo. by Miki Ando | |
| 2020–21 | Send in the Clowns by Stephen Sondheim choreo. by Miyabi Oba | Titanic by James Horner choreo. by Miki Ando | |
| 2019–20 | Firedance (from Riverdance) by Bill Whelan choreo. by Miki Ando | Titanic by James Horner choreo. by Miki Ando | |
| 2018–19 | Firedance (from Riverdance) by Bill Whelan choreo. by Miki Ando | East Of Eden by Lee Holdridge choreo. by Miki Ando | |
| 2017–18 | Gabriel's Oboe (from The Mission) choreo. by Miki Ando | East Of Eden by Lee Holdridge choreo. by Miki Ando | |
| 2016–17 | Gabriel's Oboe (from The Mission) choreo. by Miki Ando | The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by Harry Gregson-Williams choreo. by Kenji Miyamoto | |
| 2015–16 | Resphoina by Joe Hisaishi choreo. by Kenji Miyamoto | The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by Harry Gregson-Williams choreo. by Kenji Miyamoto | |
| 2014–15 | Resphoina by Joe Hisaishi choreo. by Kenji Miyamoto | Les Misérables by Claude-Michel Schönberg | |
| 2013–14 | Tempest by Gaetano Pugnani, Fritz Kreisler | Les Misérables by Claude-Michel Schönberg | |
| 2012–13 | Tempest by Gaetano Pugnani, Fritz Kreisler | The Firebird by Igor Stravinsky | |
| 2011–12 | Tempest by Gaetano Pugnani, Fritz Kreisler | Polovtsian Dances (from Prince Igor) by Alexander Borodin | Shall We Dance? (from The King and I) |
| 2010–11 | Liberty Fanfare by John Williams | Polovtsian Dances (from Prince Igor) by Alexander Borodin | |

## Competitive highlights

GP: Grand Prix; CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix
International :
| Event | 09–10 | 10–11 | 11–12 | 12–13 | 13–14 | 14–15 | 15–16 | 16–17 | 18–19 | 19–20 | 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 |||||||||||||||||
| Junior Worlds | | 8th | | | | | | | | | | | |
| JGP Estonia | | | | | 3rd | | | | | | | | | |
| JGP Germany | | | | 2nd | | | | | | | | | | |
| JGP Latvia | | | 7th | | | | | | | | | | | |
| JGP Poland | | | | | 7th | | | | | | | | | |
| JGP Turkey | | | | 4th | | | | | | | | | | |
| National |||||||||||||||||
| Japan Champ. | | 8th | 13th | 11th | 10th | 12th | 17th | 13th | 19th | 28th | 19th | 20th | 21st | 21st |
| Japan Junior | 9th | 3rd | 5th | 6th | | | | | | | | | | |