Mie Hamada

Mie Hamada represents a kind of career that sports coverage systematically undervalues. Born in Kyoto in 1959 and a graduate of Doshisha University, she competed as a figure skater herself, then became a coach — and it is the coaching that made her name. Think about what that job actually is. You are at the rink before dawn. You watch someone else's jump, someone else's season, someone else's Olympic cycle. When it goes well, the credit sits on the ice with your student, which is exactly where it should sit. When it goes badly, the questions come to you. There is no scoreboard for what you personally did, only the accumulated evidence of skaters who got better under your hands over decades. Japan's strength in women's figure skating did not appear spontaneously; it was built in gyms and rinks by people who stayed in one place for thirty years. Hamada is one of the reasons the pipeline exists at all.

Name (English)

Mie Hamada

Name (Japanese)

濱田美栄

Reading

はまだ みえ

Born

October 29, 1959 (age 66)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Boar

Origin

Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

figure skater / figure skating coach

University

Doshisha University

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mie%20Hamada
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%BF%B1%E7%94%B0%E7%BE%8E%E6%A0%84
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6843513

Tags

• Kyoto Prefecture
• figure skater
• figure skating coach

Last updated

2026-08-07

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