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Tomoaki Koyama

figure skater

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ7820085 ↗
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Tomoaki Koyama (小山 朋昭, Koyama Tomoaki; born October 4, 1971 in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese pair skater who now works as an ISU Technical Specialist. Competing with Rena Inoue, he placed 14th in the 1992 Winter Olympic Games. They are two-time Japanese National Champions. He also competed as a single skater.

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“Tomoaki Koyama” enters the record as figure skater. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Tomoaki, Koyama and figure can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1971, 1992—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1971-10-04. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Tomoaki, Koyama and figure.
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This entry incorporates text from “Tomoaki Koyama” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.