Kana Muramoto

is a Japanese retired figure skater (women's singles and ice dance) and choreographer. With her skating partner, Daisuke Takahashi, she is the 2022 Four Continents silver medalist, the 2022–23 Japanese national champion and the 2022 Denis Ten Memorial Challenge champion.

With her former skating partner, Chris Reed, she is the 2018 Four Continents bronze medalist, the 2017 Asian Winter Games silver medalist, and a three-time Japanese national champion (2016–2018). They competed in the final segment at five ISU Championships and the 2018 Winter Olympics.

Personal life Kana Muramoto was born on March 3, 1993, in Akashi, Hyōgo, Japan. In 2011, she graduated from Canadian Academy, an international school in Kobe, Japan.

Career

Early career

Muramoto began learning to skate in 1998. They placed third in the free dance, winning the bronze medal overall. Muramoto said she felt they could do better at their next competition.

Making their Japan Championships debut, Muramoto/Takahashi placed second in the rhythm dance, less than four points behind Komatsubara/Koleto. Muramoto said she did not want to look for a new partner to compete with because she could not imagine a better partner than Takahashi and would therefore prefer to pursue a professional show career with him.

Post-competitive career Since retiring from competitive figure skating, Muramoto has performed solo and with Takahashi in ice shows such as the innovative cross-genre show Hyoen, Prince Ice World, Shizuka Arakawa's Friends on Ice and Daisuke Takahashi's Kassouya. She co-choreographed a program with Takahashi titled Symmetry, which they debuted during the Prince Ice World - Broadway Rocks! tour. For Friends on Ice 2024, Muramoto created her own solo show program Fortitude. Since 2023 she has choreographed group numbers for Friends on Ice. In 2025 she choreographed a group number to the song Silhouette by AQUILO for the Stars on Ice Japan tour, featuring Mao Asada, Daisuke Takahashi, Kazuki Tomono and herself. The same year she also provided choreography for the Hyoen production "Kagamon no Yasha".

In addition she choreographed competitive and show programs for several figure skaters, Mao Asada Sumika Kanazawa Yuto Kishina Riria Kono Mai Mihara Haruna Murakami Shunsuke Nakamura Mei Okada Kosho Oshima Kaori Sakamoto Mao Shimada Rena Uezono Rinka Watanabe Sōta Yamamoto Thai National Figure Skating Team

In October 2024, Muramotom along with her ice dance partner Daisuke Takahashi, Olympic champion Shizuka Arakawa, Takahito Mura, Kazuki Tomono, Keiji Tanaka, Yuna Aoki, Kosho Oshima, Yuto Kishina and Rena Uezono to launch the members-only official fan community F-Ske on the platform FANICON.

Programs With Takahashi Season Rhythm dance Free dance Exhibition 2022–2023