Wakaba Higuchi

Wakaba Higuchi
Higuchi at the 2018 Worlds
Native name	樋口 新葉
Born	(2001-01-02) January 2, 2001 (age 23) Tokyo, Japan
Hometown	Tokyo, Japan
Height	1.52 m (5 ft 0 in)
Figure skating career
Country	Japan
Coach	Koji Okajima Noriko Sato
Skating club	Noevir
Began skating	2004
Event Olympic Games 0 1 0 World Championships 0 1 0 Japan Championships 0 4 1 World Team Trophy 1 0 0 World Junior Championships 0 0 2 Junior Grand Prix Final 0 0 1 Medal list Olympic Games 2022 Beijing Team World Championships 2018 Milan Singles Japan Championships 2015–16 Sapporo Singles 2016–17 Osaka Singles 2019–20 Tokyo Singles 2021–22 Saitama Singles 2014–15 Nagano Singles World Team Trophy 2017 Tokyo Team World Junior Championships 2015 Tallinn Singles 2016 Debrecen Singles Junior Grand Prix Final 2014–15 Barcelona Singles

Wakaba Higuchi (樋口 新葉, Higuchi Wakaba, born January 2, 2001) is a Japanese figure skater. She is the 2018 World silver medalist and a five-time Japanese national medalist (bronze in 2015, silver in 2016, 2017, 2020, and 2022). On the junior level, she is a two-time World Junior bronze medalist (2015, 2016), the 2014–15 Junior Grand Prix Final bronze medalist, and a two-time Japan Junior national champion (2015, 2016). She won a silver medal in team event, representing Japan at the 2022 Winter Olympics.^[a][1]

Higuchi is the seventeenth woman to land a clean triple Axel internationally and the fifth woman to land a clean triple Axel at the Olympics.

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