Mako Yamashita
Mako Yamashita was born in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan on December 31st, 2002 and is the Japanese Figure Skater. At the age of 21, Mako Yamashita biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
At 21 years old, Mako Yamashita has this physical status:
Yamashita won two bronze medals at the ISU Junior Grand Prix series.
In September 2017, Yamashita won the bronze medal at the ISU Junior Grand Prix in Salzburg, Austria behind Anastasia Tarakanova (Russia) and Lim Eun-soo (South Korea). She then won the silver medal at her next JGP event, held in Zagreb, Croatia, behind Sofia Samodurova (Russia).
In March 2018, Yamashita won the bronze medal at the 2018 World Junior Figure Skating Championships.
In August 2018, Yamashita won the bronze medal at the 2018 CS Asian Trophy, behind Lim Eun-soo and Yuna Shiraiwa. In September, she also won the bronze medal at the 2018 CS Lombardia Trophy, behind Elizaveta Tuktamysheva and Sofia Samodurova.
In October, Yamashita debuted on the ISU Grand Prix series in the 2018–19 season. She won the silver medal at 2018 Skate Canada behind Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, and ahead of Evgenia Medvedeva, the 2018 Olympic silver medalist. She then competed at 2018 Rostelecom Cup where she placed seventh.
Yamashita began the season with a sixth place at the 2019 CS Ondrej Nepela Memorial. She finished twelfth out of twelve skaters at the 2019 Skate America. Yamashita fared better at the 2019 NHK Trophy, where she placed fifth.
At the 2019–20 Japanese Championships, Yamashita was fifth in the short program, but dropped to eleventh place overall after finishing sixteenth in the free skate.
Yamashita was invited to be a part of Team Red at the Japan Open after the withdrawal of Marin Honda. Competing domestically, she placed sixth at Western Sectionals.
With the COVID-19 pandemic prompting the ISU to assign the Grand Prix based primarily on geographic location to limit international travel, Yamashita was assigned to compete at the 2020 NHK Trophy as part of a field of Japanese skaters and South Korea's You Young. She placed third in the short program. In the free skate, Yamashita attempted a quad Salchow in international competition for the first time, landing it with a full downgrade, as well as making errors on two other jumps. She dropped to fifth place overall.
Yamashita placed thirteenth at the 2020–21 Japan Championships.
Yamashita placed thirteenth for the second consecutive year at the 2021–22 Japan Championships.