Rei Higuchi

Rei Higuchi (Japanese: 樋口黎; born 28 January 1996) is a Japanese freestyle wrestler who won a silver medal in the 57 kg division at the 2016 Olympics.[1][2] He won the gold medal in the 61 kg event at the 2022 World Wrestling Championships held in Belgrade, Serbia.[3]

Rei Higuchi
Higuchi at the 2016 Olympics
Personal information
Birth name樋口黎
Nationality Japan
Born (1996-01-28) January 28, 1996
Japan
Height163 cm (5 ft 4 in)
Sport
Country Japan
SportWrestling
Weight class61 kg
Event(s)Freestyle
ClubNippon Sport Science University;Tokyo
Coached byKenichi Yumoto

Kazuhito Sakae

Takahiro Wada
Achievements and titles
World finalsGold (2022) Silver (2023)
Regional finalsGold (2022)
Olympic finalsSilver (2016)
Medal record
Men's freestyle wrestling
Representing  Japan
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2016 Rio de Janeiro 57 kg
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2022 Belgrade 61 kg
Silver medal – second place 2023 Belgrade 57 kg
Asian Championships
Gold medal – first place 2022 Ulaanbaatar 61 kg
Bronze medal – third place2017 New Delhi61 kg
World U23 Championships
Gold medal – first place2018 Bucharest 65 kg
Golden Grand Prix Ivan Yarygin
Bronze medal – third place2017 Krasnoyarsk61 kg
Japan National Championships
Gold medal – first place2019 Tokyo 57 kg
Bronze medal – third place2020 Tokyo 57 kg
All-Japan Invitational Championships
Silver medal – second place2018 Tokyo 65 kg
Asian Cadets Championships
Gold medal – first place2012 Bishkek 54 kg

Higuchi studies at the Nippon Sport Science University. He fractured his right hand in October 2015, but won the All Japan Tournament in December that year.[4]

On 28 January 2017 he competed at the Golden Grand Prix Ivan Yarygin 2017, in the qualification he was eliminated by Gadzhimurad Rashidov of Russia, but he went on to wrestle back and win a bronze medal against Bulat Batoev of Russia.[5] On September 18, 2023, Rei Higuchi won a silver medal in the 57 kilogram weight class at the 2023 World Wrestling Championships in Belgrade. In the final he lost 4:7 to Serbian wrestler Stevan Mićić [6]

References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Rei Higuchi.
  1. "Rei Higuchi". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 19 August 2016.
  2. Higuchi, Rei (JPN) Archived 2016-08-20 at the Wayback Machine. iat.uni-leipzig.de
  3. "2022 World Wrestling Championships Results Book" (PDF). United World Wrestling. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 September 2022. Retrieved 18 September 2022.
  4. Rei Higuchi Archived 2016-09-20 at the Wayback Machine. nbcolympics.com
  5. "Ахмед Чакаев, Даурен Куруглиев и Алан Хугаев - победители гран-при "Иван Ярыгин"-2017 - Федерация спортивной борьбы России". Archived from the original on 2 February 2017. Retrieved 28 January 2017.
  6. "WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2023 RESULTS".


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