page_title: Rika Kihira
section_title: Junior level
hierarchical_section_title: Rika Kihira / Detailed results / Junior level
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Рика Кихара (Япония) на финале Гран-при по фигурному катанию среди юниоров 2016-2017
context_page_description: Rika Kihira is a Japanese figure skater. She is a two-time Four Continents champion the 2018 Grand Prix Final champion, the 2018 Internationaux de France champion, the 2018 NHK Trophy champion, a two-time International Challenge Cup champion, the 2019 Japanese national champion, and the 2018 Japanese national silver medalist.
  On the junior level, she is the 2016 JGP Slovenia champion, the 2016 JGP Czech Republic silver medalist, the 2017 JGP Latvia silver medalist, and the 2017 Japanese junior national champion.
  Kihira is one of eleven women to have landed the triple Axel jump in an International Skating Union competition, the first ever woman to land a triple Axel-triple Toeloop combination, the first woman to land eight clean triples in a free skate, and the second woman to land four clean triples in the short program.
  As at 20 April 2020, Kihira is currently the highest ranked ladies figure skater in the world by the International Skating Union.
context_section_description: Personal best highlighted in bold.
caption: Kihira at the 2016–17 JGP Final.
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