Kaoruko Wada

Born in 2009 — I have to stop and sit with that for a second, because that means she arrived in this world well after I was already a full-grown adult, and here she is already making noise as a competitive figure skater. That alone tells you something. Figure skating is one of those sports that looks impossibly effortless on TV, all sequins and soaring jumps, but every person who's watched a skater nail a triple axel and then found out they were up at 4 a.m. drilling it on a rink knows the real story. She's still early in her career, but a Junior Grand Prix Final silver at fifteen already says plenty, and I find myself genuinely curious about where she lands in the next Olympic cycle. The young ones who surface this early usually have something real. I'm watching.

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Kaoruko Wada is a Japanese figure skater born on May 13, 2009. Born in Nagoya and skating for the Grand Prix Tokai Club, she is the 2024–25 Junior Grand Prix Final silver medalist and the 2024 JGP Czech Republic champion.

Name (English)

Kaoruko Wada

Name (Japanese)

和田薫子

Reading

わだ かおるこ

Born

May 13, 2009 (age 17)

Origin

Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Figure skater

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Ox

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/kaoruko.wada/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%92%8C%E7%94%B0%E8%96%AB%E5%AD%90
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130376330

Tags

• Figure skater

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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