Wakaba Higuchi

Wakaba Higuchi
Higuchi at the 2024 Grand Prix de France
Native name樋口 新葉
Born (2001-01-02) January 2, 2001 (age 23)
Tokyo, Japan
HometownTokyo, Japan
Height1.52 m (5 ft 0 in)
Figure skating career
CountryJapan Japan
Coach
Skating clubNOEVIR
Began skating2004
Event Gold medal – first place Silver medal – second place Bronze medal – third place
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 ""
Silver medal – second place 2022 Beijing Team
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2018 Milan Singles
Japan Championships
Silver medal – second place 2015–16 Sapporo Singles
Silver medal – second place 2016–17 Osaka Singles
Silver medal – second place 2019–20 Tokyo Singles
Silver medal – second place 2021–22 Saitama Singles
Bronze medal – third place 2014–15 Nagano Singles
World Team Trophy
Gold medal – first place 2017 Tokyo Team
World Junior Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Tallinn Singles
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Debrecen Singles
Junior Grand Prix Final
Bronze medal – third place 2014–15 Barcelona Singles

Wakaba Higuchi (樋口 新葉, Higuchi Wakaba, born January 2, 2001) is a Japanese figure skater. She is a 2022 Olympic team event silver medalist, the 2018 World silver medalist, the 2024 Skate America champion, a three-time Grand Prix silver medalist (2017 Cup of China; 2020 NHK Trophy; 2024 Grand Prix de France), a three-time Grand Prix bronze medalist (2016 and 2021 Grand Prix de France; 2017 Rostelecom Cup), a three-time Challenger Series 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).[a][1][2]

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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  1. ^ "BEIJING 2022 FIGURE SKATING TEAM EVENT RESULTS". International Olympic Committee. January 31, 2024. Retrieved January 31, 2024.
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