Mao Shimada

Mao Shimada is a Japanese figure skater. She is the 2024 Youth Olympic champion, a four-time World Junior champion, a four-time ISU Junior Grand Prix Final champion, an eight-time ISU Junior Grand Prix gold medalist, a four-time Japanese national medalist, and a five-time Japanese junior national champion (2021–2025). She is the twenty-first woman in history to have successfully landed a triple Axel jump, fourteenth woman to successfully land a quadruple jump and second Japanese woman to land a quadruple toeloop in competition.