Ryuichi Kihara

Ryuichi Kihara (木原 龍一, Kihara Ryūichi; born August 22, 1992) is a Japanese pair skater. With his skating partner, Riku Miura, he is the 2023 and 2025 World champion, two-time World silver medalist (2022, 2024), a two-time Four Continents champion (2023, 2025), the 2022–23 Grand Prix Final champion, a six-time ISU Grand Prix medalist (three golds, two silvers, one bronze), three-time ISU Challenger Series medalist (one gold, two silvers), and two-time Japanese national champions (2019–20, 2024–25). They also are silver medalists in the team event at the 2022 Winter Olympics.

He previously competed with Narumi Takahashi and Miu Suzaki, representing Japan at the 2014 and 2018 Winter Olympics, respectively.

As a singles skater, he is a two-time bronze medalist on the ISU Junior Grand Prix series and the 2010–11 Japanese Junior silver medalist.