Mone Chiba

is a Japanese figure skater. She is the 2025 World bronze medalist, the 2026 World silver medalist, the 2024 Four Continents champion, the 2023 and 2026 Four Continents bronze medalist, the 2024–25 Grand Prix Final silver medalist, a four-time Grand Prix medalist, a two-time Challenger Series medalist, the 2025 World University Games silver medalist, and the 2023 Japanese national silver medalist. She represented Japan at the 2026 Winter Olympics, placing fourth.

Competing at the junior level, she is the 2022 JGP Poland I silver medalist, a two-time Japanese Junior medalist, and a two-time Challenge Cup junior champion.

Early life and education Chiba was born on May 1, 2005, in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. She graduated from Tohoku High School and enrolled in Waseda University, studying Human Sciences, in March 2024.

She would place twenty-first at 2015–16 Japan Novice B Championships and twenty-ninth at 2016–17 Japan Novice A Championships. She made her first international appearance at the 2017 Asian Open in the advanced novice category and was first after the short program. In the free program, she downgraded a jump and had a fall. She finished in fifth place. Chiba placed sixth at 2017–18 Japan Novice A Championships. Scoring 140.85 in the free skate and 212.54 overall, Chiba won her first Grand Prix medal, a silver, as part of a Japanese team sweep, alongside Kaori Sakamoto, and Yuna Aoki. "At this NHK Trophy, I was able to get the silver medal for the first time," she said. "I'm so happy about it." At the Grand Prix Final in December, she finished in second place in both the short and free programs and came in second place overall to win the silver medal. While she said that she was happy with the result, she also expressed frustration and said that she wished she had taken second place with a stronger performance. "I'm glad that I got a silver medal, but I don't think I gave my all," she said after the free skate." One month later, she competed at the 2025 Four Continents Championships in Seoul, South Korea. After placing second in the short program, Chiba began showing symptoms of gastroenteritis. "Despite not feeling well, I gave all my energy into my program," said Chiba. "And I think the things I experienced today were really valuable for me."

In March, at the 2025 World Championships in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, Chiba finished second in the short program and third in the free skate to win the bronze medal behind three time champion, Kaori Sakamoto, and surprise winner, Alysa Liu. The skater from Kyoto said she did not imagine she would be on the podium, and was happy with the bronze, her first world medal.

In January, Chiba earned the bronze medal at the 2026 Four Continents Championships after placing third in both the short program and free skate. "Throughout this competition, including the short program and the free program, I’ve been disappointed," said Chiba. "I only have two weeks until the Olympics. What I really need to do is to accept where I am and really think what needs to be done and progress day by day to aim high."

On 17 February, Chiba competed in the short program at the 2026 Winter Olympics. She placed fourth in that segment after the second part of her triple flip-triple toe combination received a quarter underrotation call. "Being the final skater in my first Olympics felt very intense," she said following her performance. "But when I thought about how I might never experience being the last skater at the Olympics again in my life, I figured I might as well enjoy it. I was able to enjoy the last dance together with the large audience after I landed my Lutz today, and that made me very happy."

Two days later, Chiba competed in the free skate segment of the competition. She landed all of her attempted jumps but received quarter underrotation calls on the second part of her triple flip-triple toe combination, and on the first and third parts of her triple lutz-double toe-double loop jump sequence. Chiba ultimately placed fourth in that competition segment and finished fourth overall, only 1.28 points behind the bronze medal position. "1.28… Even though I gave absolutely everything I had, it still wasn’t enough. I don’t really know how to put it into words, but it’s a very complicated kind of frustration, something I felt for the first time," Chiba expressed in an interview following the event. "To put it very simply, I'm frustrated that I finished fourth, if I was only looking at it from my own perspective. But the performances of the three skaters who made the podium were truly wonderful, and I sincerely praise them from the bottom of my heart. It's hard to put into words. There were things I'm frustrated about, and there were things that were good and not so good. The only thing I can do now is give everything at the World Championships."

During the 2026 World Championships in Prague, Czech Republic, Chiba won the silver medal behind teammate Kaori Sakamoto after placing second in both the short program and free skate. She set personal best scores in her third outing at this event. "Coming into this event, I had many goals," said Chiba. "One of them, secretly, was to score over 220 points, and I achieved that. So I’m so happy about that aspect. This was the last event of the season, and coming here, I had so many experiences. I’m very grateful to have had all of them."

2026–27 season: Chiba initially planned to open her season at the CS Kinoshita Group Cup but withdrew.

Programs

Season Short program Free skating Exhibition 2026–2027 James Bond Skyfall The Name's Bond... James Bond Clair de lune 2025–2026 Last Dance

Sakura (Version for Orchestra) Romeo and Juliet A Thousand Times Good Night Kissing You Les Yeux Noirs (Dark Eyes)

Madama Butterfly Act III: Intermezzo – Oh eh! Oh eh! Act II: Un bel dì, vedremo

Lavender No Saku Niwa De 2024–2025