Rei Higuchi
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| Born | January 28, 1996 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)[1][2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 63 kg (139 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Wrestling | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Nippon Sport Science University;Tokyo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Kenichi Yumoto
Kazuhito Sakae Takahiro Wada | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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]
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.[3]
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.[4]
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- ^ Jump up to: a b "Rei Higuchi". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 19 August 2016.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Higuchi, Rei (JPN) Archived 2016-08-20 at the Wayback Machine. iat.uni-leipzig.de
- ^ Rei Higuchi Archived 2016-09-20 at the Wayback Machine. nbcolympics.com
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2 February 2017. Retrieved 28 January 2017.
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External links[]
- Rei Higuchi at United World Wrestling
- Rei Higuchi at Olympics.com
- Rei Higuchi at Olympedia
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