Yamato Tamura

As a competitor

Competing in single skating, Tamura won two Japanese national titles. He was selected to represent Japan at the 1998 Winter Olympics and placed 17th. Minoru Sano coached him during his career. Tamura landed a quadruple toe loop in competition in 1999 and a quadruple toe-triple toe combination in 2000. He retired from competition in 2004 and turned to coaching.

Tamura also competed briefly in pair skating, winning the 1997 national title with Marie Arai.

As a coach

Following his retirement from competitive figure skating, Tamura coached at the Kansai University Skating Club in Takatsuki, Osaka alongside Mie Hamada until 2020.^[2] In 2025, he began coaching at the LYS Skate Academy in Niigata alongside Mihoko Higuchi.^[3]

His students have included:

• Mariko Kihara^[4]
• Satoko Miyahara,^[5] 2015 World silver medalist and 4-time Japanese National champion (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018)
• Yuna Shiraiwa,^[6] two time Japanese Junior silver medallist (2016, 2017)
• Rika Kihira,^[7] 2017-18 Japanese Junior national champion as well as Senior national bronze and silver medallist. She was the first lady to land a 3A+3T combination in international competition (at the 2017–18 Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final).
• Young You, 2020 Four Continents silver medalist, 4-time South Korean National champion (2015, 18–20) and 2019 Skate Canada Bronze medalist
• Taichi Honda^[8]
• Marin Honda,^[9] 2016 Junior World Champion, 2017 Junior World silver medallist
• Kana Muramoto^[10] (as a singles skater)
• Satsuki Muramoto^[11]