![]() ![]() Alex Shibutani recalled, "We were seated close to the ice in the second row, and when the ice dancers came out for their warm up, we could actually feel a gust of wind as the skaters flew by. A key source of inspiration for Maia and her brother Alex to pursue ice dancing came in March 2003 when their family attended the World Championships in Washington D.C. She originally trained as a single skater and was taught by Slavka Kohout Button, a coach best known for guiding US ladies' champion Janet Lynn. Maia Shibutani began skating at age four. In 2019, Shibutani was diagnosed with a malignant mass on her kidney. She enrolled at the University of Michigan in the fall of 2012. She moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan in 2007 and graduated from Huron High School in Ann Arbor in 2012. Maia lived in Colorado Springs from 2005 through 2007 and was home-schooled. She started figure skating at the age of 4 in 1998 in Old Greenwich, Connecticut, where she was a student at Greenwich Academy in Greenwich, Connecticut. She has an older brother, Alex Shibutani, who competes with her as her partner in the discipline of Ice Dance. She is the daughter of Chris Shibutani and Naomi Uyemura, both of Japanese descent, who met as Harvard musicians. Maia Harumi Shibutani was born on July 20, 1994, in New York City. The Shibutani siblings are often referred to by their nickname the Shib Sibs. They are the second sibling duo to ever share an ice dancing Olympic medal, and the first from the United States. In 2018, the siblings became the first ice dancers who are both of Asian descent to medal at the Olympics (winning bronze in both team figure skating and the individual ice dancing event). They are two-time members of the US Olympic team, competing at the 20 Winter Olympics. ![]() Championships, at five levels including eight as seniors. The siblings have won six titles on the Grand Prix series and stood on the podium at 14 consecutive U.S. Partnered with her brother Alex Shibutani, she is a two time 2018 Olympic bronze medalist, a three-time World medalist (silver in 2016, bronze in 20), the 2016 Four Continents champion, and a two-time U.S. Maia Harumi Shibutani (born July 20, 1994) is an American ice dancer. ![]()
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