Rei Higuchi

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

Kazuhito Sakae

Takahiro Wada
Achievements and titles
Olympic finalsSilver (2016) Gold (2024)
World finalsGold (2022) Silver (2023)
Regional finalsGold (2022)
Medal record
Men's freestyle wrestling
Representing  Japan
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2024 Paris 57 kg
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 place 2017 New Delhi 61 kg
Grand Prix
Gold medal – first place 2024 Budapest 57 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2017 Krasnoyarsk 61 kg
Gold medal – first place 2016 Spala 57 kg
Gold medal – first place 2016 Skopje 61 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Ulaanbaatar 57 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Ulan-Ude 61 kg
World U23 Championships
Gold medal – first place 2018 Bucharest 65 kg

Rei Higuchi (Japanese: 樋口黎; born 28 January 1996) is a Japanese freestyle wrestler. He won the gold medal in the men's freestyle 57 kg event at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.[1] He won a silver medal in the 57 kg division at the 2016 Olympics.[2][3] He won the gold medal in the 61 kg event at the 2022 World Wrestling Championships held in Belgrade, Serbia.[4]

  1. ^ "Wrestling Results Book" (PDF). 2024 Summer Olympics. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 August 2024. Retrieved 12 August 2024.
  2. ^ "Rei Higuchi". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 19 August 2016.
  3. ^ Higuchi, Rei (JPN) Archived 2016-08-20 at the Wayback Machine. iat.uni-leipzig.de
  4. ^ "2022 World Wrestling Championships Results Book" (PDF). United World Wrestling. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 September 2022. Retrieved 18 September 2022.