Kana Muramoto

Ice dance has always been the quiet corner of Japanese figure skating, and Kana Muramoto spent her career refusing to accept that. Born in Akashi, Hyogo, in 1993, she started in women's singles before switching disciplines, then rebuilt herself again when she paired with Daisuke Takahashi — a partnership plenty of people, including me, initially filed under publicity stunt. Then they took silver at the 2022 Four Continents, won the Japanese national title in 2022-23, and the skepticism quietly evaporated. What impresses me is not any single result but the willingness to start over in a sport where starting over usually means disappearing. She has since retired from competition and moved into choreography, which feels like the natural next chapter: someone who spent years learning how two bodies breathe as one now gets to design that for others. I would rather watch her build a program than watch most people skate one.

Name (English)

Kana Muramoto

Name (Japanese)

村元哉中

Reading

むらもと かな

Born

March 3, 1993 (age 33)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Rooster

Origin

Akashi, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan

Height

162 cm

Occupation

figure skater / ice dancer

University

Kansai University

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kana%20Muramoto
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%91%E5%85%83%E5%93%89%E4%B8%AD
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Tags

• Hyōgo Prefecture
• figure skater
• ice dancer

Last updated

2026-08-07

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