is a Japanese ice dancing coach and former competitor. With Kenji Miyamoto, she won two Japanese national titles and competed at seven ISU Championships.

Career

Arikawa began learning to skate in 1984.

Partnership with Miyamoto

She teamed up with Kenji Miyamoto no later than 1995. After winning the Japanese junior title, they were sent to the 1996 World Junior Championships in Brisbane, Australia, where they finished 22nd. The following season, they placed second at the Japan Junior Championships. They regained their national junior title before placing 16th at the

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in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. Advancing to the senior ranks, Arikawa/Miyamoto competed at their first Grand Prix events and became the national silver medalists in the 1998–1999 season. They took silver at the Asian Winter Games in South Korea and placed 9th at the 1999 Four Continents Championships in Canada. In the 2001–2002 season, Arikawa/Miyamoto won their first senior national title and then placed 8th at the Four Continents Championships in Jeonju, South Korea. Making their only World Championships appearance, they qualified to the free dance and finished 24th overall in Nagano, Japan. Arikawa/Miyamoto repeated as national champions the following season. In February 2003, they won the bronze medal at the Asian Winter Games in

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, Japan, and placed 8th at their final competition, the Four Continents Championships in Beijing, China. They were coached by Muriel Zazoui, Pasquale Camerlengo,

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in Lyon, France.

Post-competitive career

Arikawa has coached ice dancers Emi Hirai / Marien De La Asuncion and Misato Komatsubara /

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Programs

; with Miyamoto

Results

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'' ;with Miyamoto

References

External links

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Rie Arikawa / Kenji Miyamoto
at Tracings.net {{DEFAULTSORT:Arikawa, Rie Japanese female ice dancers Living people 1981 births Asian Games medalists in figure skating Figure skaters at the 1999 Asian Winter Games Figure skaters at the 2003 Asian Winter Games Medalists at the 1999 Asian Winter Games Medalists at the 2003 Asian Winter Games Asian Games silver medalists for Japan Asian Games bronze medalists for Japan Competitors at the 2001 Winter Universiade