Riku Miura
Riku Miura is a Japanese pair skater, who currently competes with Ryuichi Kihara. Miura/Kihara are the reigning Japanese national champions in pair skating. She previously competed with Shoya Ichihashi.
Personal Life
Miura was born in Takarazuka, Hyōgo.She enjoys doing karate in her spare time. Her figure skating idol is Sui Wenjing.
Career
Partnership with Ichihashi
With her skating partner, Shoya Ichihashi, she has represented Japan at four ISU Championships. The two finished tenth at the 2018 Four Continents Championships in Taipei, Taiwan, and at the 2018 World Junior Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria. Their partnership ended in July of 2019.Partnership with Kihara
2019–20 season
In August of 2019, it was announced that Miura had teamed up with Ryuichi Kihara and that the pair would train in Oakville, Ontario at the Skate Oakville Skating Club under Bruno Marcotte, Meagan Duhamel, and Brian Shales.Miura/Kihara made their international competitive debut at 2019 NHK Trophy, where they finished fifth. They were the only pair competing at the 2019–20 Japan Championships, and had two falls in the short program. The free skate proved more successful, allowing them to claim the Japanese national title and assignments to the ISU championships in the second half of the season.
Programs
| Season | Short program | Free skating | Exhibition |
| 2019–2020 | by Abel Korzeniowski choreo. by Allie Hann-McCurdy | by Coldplay choreo. by Valérie Saurette | by Lady Gaga |
| Season | Short program | Free skating |
| 2018–2019 | by Michael Bublé choreo. by Julie Marcotte | by Richard Addinsell choreo. by Valérie Saurette |
| 2017–2018 | by Claude-Michel Schönberg |
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| 2016–2017 |
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