24 Facts About Mana Kawabe

Mana Kawabe was born on October 31,2004, in Nagoya, Japan.

Mana Kawabe began skating in 2009 after being inspired by fellow Nagoya native Mao Asada.

Mana Kawabe was coached by Hiroshi Nagakubo, Yoriko Naruse, Miho Kawaume, and Yuko Hongo at Howa Sports Land in Nagoya until Nagakubo's retirement in 2017.

Mana Kawabe then switched to her former coaches, Mie Hamada, Yamato Tamura, Haruko Okamoto, and Cathy Reed, and moved to train with them in Takatsuki.

Mana Kawabe made her junior international debut at 2019 JGP United States, placing fifth.

Mana Kawabe then improved to fourth at 2019 JGP Croatia.

In October 2019, Mana Kawabe won Kinki Regionals ahead of Moa Iwano and Riko Takino before winning Western Sectionals in November ahead of Nana Araki and Hanna Yoshida.

Mana Kawabe then landed her first officially ratified triple Axel in the free skate and completed eight clean triple jumps to take the title over Kawabata and Yoshida by nearly fifteen points.

At the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics in January, Mana Kawabe set personal bests in all segments to finish fourth overall behind You Young of South Korea and Russians Kseniia Sinitsyna and Anna Frolova.

Mana Kawabe expressed disappointment at her mistakes on her triple Axel and her triple Lutz.

Mana Kawabe was the only member of the Japanese team not drawn for the team event.

Mana Kawabe skated a clean short program to place eighth at the 2020 World Junior Championships but made several mistakes in the free skating to drop to eleventh overall.

Mana Kawabe won the silver medal at the Kinki Regional Championship before coming fourth at Western Sectionals.

Mana Kawabe was assigned to make her senior international debut at the 2020 NHK Trophy, in a Grand Prix field that, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, was attended primarily by Japanese skaters.

Mana Kawabe was sixth in the short program, falling on her attempted triple Axel.

Mana Kawabe was sixth in the free skate and overall as well.

Mana Kawabe was twelfth of twelve skaters after the short program but was sixth in the free skate and rose to ninth place overall.

Mana Kawabe landed a triple Axel in the free skate, albeit deemed a quarter short of rotation by the technical panel, obtaining a new personal best in that segment and in total score.

Mana Kawabe received a second assignment to the 2021 NHK Trophy, following the injury-related withdrawal of Rika Kihira.

Mana Kawabe was third in the free as well, again landing the triple Axel but with a few other jump errors.

Mana Kawabe was fifteenth at the 2022 World Championships to end the season.

Mana Kawabe began her season with a bronze medal at the 2022 CS US International Figure Skating Classic.

At her second event, the 2022 Grand Prix of Espoo, Mana Kawabe was again third in the short program despite a slight under rotation on her triple flip.

In February 2025, it was announced that Mana Kawabe made a coaching change from Mihoko Higuchi to Masakazu Kagiyama.