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Aiko Marie Shibata (born in September 8, 2003) is a Philippine National Figure Skating Champion 2015. ''She started ffigure skating in the age of 3 than won a Philippine Figure Skating National competition for the first time in 2015, and has been attending Nationals till now (3rd place 2017). She is a student athlete now, and is active on social medias like Instagram, Youtube, and Facebook. She also has attended in big competitions like Asian Open Trophy for about 5 times now.''

www.aikomarie.com official website of Aiko Marie Shibata

Early Life
Aiko Marie Shibata was born on September 8, 2003 in Makati, the middle of three children. She is half Japanese, half Filipino. She was born 2 months early, but became healthy and started walking in 10 months old. Then she started figure skating in the age of 3 following her 4 year older sister. Her first competition was "Summer Skate Philippines" and won several gold medals. Her younger sibling does golf, and her oldest sibling also does figure skating with her and has joined Junior Grand Prix a big Figure Skating world competition. She started going to school in Manila Japanese School, than in 2017 she transferred to International school Manila. But then she attends a school in United States, Minnesota called Shattuck St.Mary's now.

Early years
Aiko started her skating in the year of 2007 at SM Mall of Asia ice rink. She hit her head in the age of 4 and needed to rest for 4 months. She started training in Ice Castle rink with Nadia, and Anthony Liu. But she also started to train in San Diego ice arena with Natasha. And landed her axel jump in the age of 8.

2013-2015
She started competing in Philippine Figure Skating Championships in 2014. She won a gold medal in 2015 in Pre Juvenile level. She got a dog "Juvie" since she won the Nationals.

2015-2016
She won the Philippine Figure Skating Championships in 2015 in Juvenile level. Also has some interviews on GMA.

2016-2018
In 2016 she got 1st place on her Novice level. In 2017 she joined advance Novice Level and she was able to get a Bronze medal. In 2018 she joined the Junior level that requires a double axel. But unfortunately was not able to stand on podium.

She started working harder in Lake Forest, California with Vyacheslav Zahorodnyuk and Philip Mills.

2019
Now she is going to school and train in the same time in Shattuck-Saint Mary's. But goes to lake Forest every break she gets. Now she is still training for Asian Open Throphy and also Philippine Figure Skating Championships.