Arisa Igarashi (五十嵐 有紗, Igarashi Arisa, née Higashino; born 1 August 1996) is a Japanese badminton player.[2][3] She won bronze in the mixed team at the Asian Junior Championships in 2013 and 2014, and competed at the 2014 World Junior Championships, winning two bronzes in the mixed doubles and team event.[3]
Higashino won her maiden Super 1000 tournament at the 2018 and 2021 All England Open in the mixed doubles event, partnering with Yuta Watanabe,[4] and had also won 2 consecutive bronze medals in mixed doubles at the 2020[5] and 2024 Summer Olympics.[6]
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- ^ "First Japanese mixed doubles pair to be crowned at All England!!". Badminton Europe. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
- ^ "Badminton - HIGASHINO Arisa". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 1 August 2021. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
- ^ "Arisa Higashino and Yuta Watanabe Collect Their 2nd Straight Bronze in Badminton Mixed Doubles". Japan Forward. 3 August 2024. Retrieved 17 August 2024.