Yuna Shiraiwa
| Yuna Shiraiwa | |
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Shiraiwa in 2016
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| Personal information | |
| Native name | 白岩 優奈 |
| Country represented |
 Japan
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| Born |
November 26, 2001 Kyoto, Japan |
| Height | 1.48 m (4 ft 10 1⁄2 in) |
| Coach | Mie Hamada, Yamato Tamura, Haruko Okamoto |
| Choreographer | Jeffrey Buttle, Cathy Reed |
| Former choreographer | Tom Dickson |
| Skating club | Kansai University KFSC |
| Former skating club | Kyoto Daigo FSC |
| Training locations | Takatsuki, Osaka |
| Began skating | 2006 |
| ISU personal best scores | |
| Combined total | 186.80 2015 JGP Spain |
| Short program | 62.96 2017 Junior Worlds |
| Free skate | 124.29 2015 JGP Spain |
Yuna Shiraiwa (白岩 優奈 Shiraiwa Yūna?, born November 26, 2001) is a Japanese figure skater. She has won gold medals at two ISU Junior Grand Prix events and finished in the top five at two World Junior Championships (2016–2017).
Shiraiwa began skating in 2006. She competed at the 2014–15 Japan Junior Championships but did not qualify for the free skate, having ranked 27th in the short program.
Shiraiwa debuted on the ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) circuit during the 2015–16 season. At her first JGP assignment, in Colorado Springs, Colorado, she placed fifth in the short program and first in the free skate, winning the gold medal by a margin of 8.06 points ahead of silver medalist Marin Honda. Ranked third in the short and first in the free, she outscored Russia's Alisa Fedichkina by 0.42 for gold at the JGP in Logroño, Spain. Shiraiwa's results qualified her for the JGP Final in Barcelona.
In November, Shiraiwa won the silver medal at the 2015-16 Japanese Junior Championships behind Wakaba Higuchi.
A month later, at the JGP Final, Shiraiwa finished 5th.
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