Sae Shimizu

is a Japanese figure skater.

With former pair skating partner, Lucas Tsuyoshi Honda, she is the 2024–25 Japan national bronze medalist, two-time Japan Junior national champion (2023, 2024), and the 2024 JGP Turkey bronze medalist.

As a singles skater, Shimizu competed at the basic novice level at the 2015–16 and 2016–17 Japan Basic Novice Championships, finishing thirty-first and fifteenth, respectively. Going on to compete as an advanced novice level skater, Shimizu placed twenty-fifth at the 2017–18 Japan Advanced Novice Championships and eighth at the 2018–19 Japan Advanced Novice Championships. Their partnership was officially announced in May 2023. It was also announced that the pair would continue training under their singles skating coach, Mie Hamada, while also making trips to Oakville, Ontario, Canada to work with Marcotte and Brian Shales as well as train alongside World Champions Riku Miura/Ryuichi Kihara. Competing at the 2024 Bavarian Open, the pair finished eleventh, earning these minimum scores in the process. Going on to compete at the World Junior Championships, the pair placed fourteenth.

In late November, the pair competed at the 2024–25 Japan Junior Championships, where they won the national title for a second consecutive time. Going on to compete at the Junior Grand Prix Final, Shimizu/Honda scored personal bests in all three competition segments and finished fifth overall. They would win the bronze medal overall and were subsequently named the World Junior team. Shimizu/Honda were also named to the World team on the condition that they could achieve the minimum technical element scores to compete at the event, which they were unable to do.

They concluded the season with an eleventh-place finish at the 2025 World Junior Championships in Debrecen, Hungary.

2025–26 season At the 2025–26 Japan Championships, Shimizu placed twenty-seventh in the short program and did not advance to the free skate segment.