Sumire Suto | |
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Sumire Suto and Francis Boudreau-Audet in 2017
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Personal information | |
Native name | 須藤澄玲 |
Country represented | Japan |
Born |
Yokohama, Japan |
November 12, 1997
Height | 1.51 m (4 ft 11 1⁄2 in) |
Partner | Francis Boudreau-Audet |
Former partner | Konstantin Chizhikov |
Coach | Richard Gauthier, Bruno Marcotte |
Choreographer | Julie Marcotte |
Skating club | Kanagawa FSC Yokohama |
Training locations | Montreal, Canada |
Began skating | 2006 |
ISU personal best scores | |
Combined total | 164.96 2017 Four Continents |
Short program | 61.70 2017 Worlds |
Free skate | 109.20 2016 NHK Trophy |
Sumire Suto (須藤 澄玲 Sutō Sumire?, born November 12, 1997) is a Japanese pair skater. With partner Francis Boudreau-Audet, she is the 2016 MNNT Cup champion and a two-time Japanese national champion.
Suto began learning to skate in 2006.
Suto began her partnership with Konstantin Chizhikov in 2013. In December of the same year, they won the Japanese national junior title, ahead of Ami Koga / Francis Boudreau-Audet. Making their international debut, they placed 4th in junior pairs at the International Challenge Cup in March 2014. Later that month, the two finished 12th at the 2014 World Junior Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Suto/Chizhikov competed in the 2014–15 ISU Junior Grand Prix series, placing 7th in Ostrava and 9th in Dresden. They were coached by Yuka Sato, Jason Dungjen, and Sergei Petrovski in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
Suto teamed up with Francis Boudreau-Audet in the spring of 2015. They decided to represent Japan in senior pairs, coached by Richard Gauthier and Bruno Marcotte in Montreal, Canada. Their international debut came in December 2015 at the Golden Spin of Zagreb, where they placed 7th. Later that month, they won the Japanese national title, ahead of Marin Ono / Wesley Killing and Miu Suzaki / Ryuichi Kihara.