Kaho Minagawa ( ja, 皆川夏穂; born 20 August 1997) is a retired Japanese individual
rhythmic gymnast
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. She is the
2017 Asian Championships All-around silver medalist. She trained in Novogorsk in
Moscow
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, Russia. She is the first Japanese individual rhythmic gymnast to win a medal at the
World Cup series.
Career
Minagawa appeared in international junior competitions in 2010. She won silver in all-around at the World Club Cup, the 2011 Aeon Cup in
Tokyo
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, Japan.
Minagawa appeared in Senior competitions in the 2013 Season, she competed in the
Grand Prix
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and
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Rhythmic Gymnastics Series. On June 5–08, Minagawa competed with Japanese Team at the
2013 Asian Championships. At the
2013 World Cup Final in
St.Petersburg
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, she placed 23rd in the all-around qualifications. Minagawa then competed at the
2013 World Championships in
Kyiv
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, Ukraine finishing 36th in the qualifications, she did not advance into the finals.
In 2014, Minagawa started her season competing at the
2014 Grand Prix Moscow where she finished 9th in all-around (tied with Georgia's
Salome Phajava
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) and qualified to 4 event finals for the first time in the Grand Prix finishing 7th in hoop, ball and 8th clubs, ribbon. At the
2014 Lisboa World Cup she had her highest placement finishing 11th in All-around finals. On May 9–11, Minagawa competed at the
2014 Corbeil-Essonnes World Cup and finished 20th in all-around. She then competed at the
2014 Tashkent World Cup and finished 8th in clubs and 6th in ribbon final. She finished 24th in all-around at the
2014 Minsk World Cup. At the
2014 World Cup Final in
Kazan
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,
Russia
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, Minagawa finished 14th in all-around behind American gymnast
Jasmine Kerber
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. On September 22–28, Minagawa competed at the
2014 World Championships in
Izmir, Turkey where she qualified for the all-around finals finishing in 23rd position ahead of Canada's
Patricia Bezzoubenko. She then competed at the
2014 Asian Games
The 2014 Asian Games ( ko, 2014년 아시아 경기대회/2014년 아시안 게임, Icheon sip-sa nyeon Asia gyeonggi daehoe/Icheon sip-sa nyeon Asian Geim), officially known as the 17th Asian Games ( ko, 제17회 아시아 경기대회/제17회 ...
and finished 5th in all-around ahead of teammate
Sakura Hayakawa
is a Japanese individual rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2015 Asian Championships All-around bronze medalist.
Career
Hayakawa appeared in international junior competitions in 2010. Hayakawa has competed at the World Club Cup, the Aeon Cup in Toky ...
. On October 17–19, Minagawa competed in
Tokyo
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for the 2014 Aeon Cup, where she finished 10th in the All-around finals behind Ukraine's
Eleonora Romanova.
In 2015, Minagawa competed at the senior international division at the Moscow Grand Prix and won the all-around silver medal. On March 27–29, Minagawa competed at the
2015 Lisboa World Cup finishing 8th in the all-around ahead of
Victoria Veinberg Filanovsky
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Filanovsky speaks Hebrew, Russian and English.
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, she qualified to 3 event finals (hoop, ball, and ribbon). she then competed at the
2015 Bucharest World Cup and finished 11th in the all-around. On April 10–12, Hayakawa finished 14th in the all-around behind
Neta Rivkin
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She is one of Israel's most successful rhythmic gymnasts. A three-time Olympian, in 2011 she won the silver medal in clubs at the 20 ...
at the
2015 Pesaro World Cup. Nazarenkova finished 6th in all-around at the
2015 Asian Championships, she qualified to 3 apparatus finals: she won bronze in clubs, ribbon and finished 4th in hoop. In August, Minagawa competed at the
2015 Budapest World Cup, finishing 13th in all-around ahead of Israeli
Neta Rivkin
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She is one of Israel's most successful rhythmic gymnasts. A three-time Olympian, in 2011 she won the silver medal in clubs at the 20 ...
. At the
2015 World Cup Final in
Kazan
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, Minagawa finished 15th in the all-around. On September 9–13, Minagawa (together with teammates
Sakura Hayakawa
is a Japanese individual rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2015 Asian Championships All-around bronze medalist.
Career
Hayakawa appeared in international junior competitions in 2010. Hayakawa has competed at the World Club Cup, the Aeon Cup in Toky ...
and Uzume Kawasaki) competed at the
2015 World Championships in
Stuttgart
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were Team Japan finished 6th. Minagawa qualified in the All-around finals finishing in 15th place with a total of 69.399 points. On October 2–4, Minagawa together with teammates
Sakura Hayakawa
is a Japanese individual rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2015 Asian Championships All-around bronze medalist.
Career
Hayakawa appeared in international junior competitions in 2010. Hayakawa has competed at the World Club Cup, the Aeon Cup in Toky ...
and junior
Ruriko Shibayama represented Aeon at the 2015 Aeon Cup in
Tokyo
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Japan
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, Minagawa finished 11th in the all-around finals with a total of 68.248points and with Team
Japan
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finishing 4th in the overall standings.
In 2016, Minagawa started her season competing at the
2016 Grand Prix Moscow finishing 11th in the all-around. On February 26–28, she competed at the
2016 Espoo World Cup finishing 15th in the all-around and qualified to ball final. On April 1–3, Minagawa competed at the
2016 Pesaro World Cup where she finished 22nd in the all-around, she qualified to ball and ribbon final. On May 8–10, Minagawa finished 4th in the all-around with a total of 69.950 points at the
2016 Asian Championships ahead of China's
Shang Rong
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.
[ On June 3–5, Minagawa then finished 7th in the all-around with a total of 71.350 points at the 2016 Guadalajara World Cup and qualified to ball final. On July 1–3, Minagawa competed at the 2016 Berlin World Cup finishing 12th in the all-around and qualified to the ribbon final. On July 8–10, Minagawa then finished 17th in the all-around at the 2016 Kazan World Cup. On August 19–20, Minagawa competed at the ]2016 Summer Olympics
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held in Rio de Janeiro
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, Brazil. She finished 16th in the rhythmic gymnastics individual all-around qualifications and did not advance into the top 10 finals.
In 2017, On April 7–9, Minagawa competed at the 2017 Pesaro World Cup finishing 22nd in the all-around and qualified to 1 apparatus final in hoop. She then competed at the 2017 Tashkent World Cup finishing 7th in the all-around behind Katsiaryna Halkina
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, Minagawa qualified 2 apparatus final placing 5th in hoop and 4th in ball. On May 5–7, Minagawa competed at the 2017 Sofia World Cup finishing 18th in the all-around and qualified in apparatus finals in hoop and ball. Minagawa's next event was at the 2017 World Challenge Cup Guadalajara where she finished 6th in the all-around, she qualified in 2 apparatus finals and won bronze in hoop - her first World Cup medal and Japan's first individual World Cup medal, she finished 8th in ribbon. Minagawa competed at the quadrennial held 2017 World Games
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in Wrocław
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, Poland from July 20–30, she qualified in 2 apparatus finals finishing 6th in hoop and 5th in ribbon. On August 11–13, Minagawa competed at the 2017 Kazan World Challenge Cup finishing 7th in the all-around, she qualified in 2 apparatus finals and finished 4th in ball, 6th in hoop. On August 30, Minagawa won a bronze medal in hoop at the 2017 World Championships in Pesaro
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, becoming the first Japanese medalist in a world championship individual event in 42 years since Mitsuru Hiraguchi won a gold medal in the individual hoop final at the 1975 World Championships in Madrid, Spain.[ Minagawa finished 5th in the all-around final equaling Yoko Morino who also finished 5th in all-around at the 1975 Worlds, although the competition was not attended by rhythmic powerhouses ]Bulgaria
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, East Germany
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, and the Soviet Union
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.
In 2018 season, on March 30-April 1, Minagawa began the world cup events competing at the 2018 Sofia World Cup finishing 10th in the all-around, she qualified in ball final finishing in 7th. on April 13–15, Minagawa competed at the 2018 Pesaro World Cup finishing 10th in the all-around, she then qualified in the hoop final. On April 27–29, Minagawa participated at the 2018 Baku World Cup where she won finished 7th in the all-around, she qualified in 1 apparatus final and won bronze medal in ball. On May 11–13, Kaho then competed at the 2018 Portimao World Challenge Cup finishing 5th in the all-around, she qualified in 3 apparatus finals where she won silver in ribbon behind Maria Sergeeva of Russia
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, she finished 8th with hoop and ball.
Kaho has not been chosen to represent Japan at the Olympic Games in Tokyo, after being beaten by her two younger team mates Sumire Kita
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and Chisaki Oiwa
Chisaki Oiwa (大岩 千未来 ''Ōiwa Chisaki'' born 20 November 2001) is a Japanese rhythmic gymnast. She represented Japan at the 2020 Summer Olympics and finished nineteenth in the qualification round for the individual all-around. She is a t ...
.
Kaho was selected to compete 2021 World Championships
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in Kitakyushu, Japan with ribbon : she finised in 15th place and didn't qualified to the final. She retired from the sport after the competition.
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1997 births
Living people
People from Chiba (city)
Sportspeople from Chiba Prefecture
Japanese rhythmic gymnasts
Gymnasts at the 2014 Asian Games
Gymnasts at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Asian Games competitors for Japan
Olympic gymnasts of Japan