Reiko Shiota

Reiko Shiota
Reiko Shiota
Personal information
Country	Japan
Born	30 September 1983 (age 37); Kanda, Fukuoka, Japan
Height	1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight	57 kg (126 lb)
Handedness	Right
Women's & mixed doubles
Highest ranking	6 (WD); 8 (XD)
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Women's badminton
Representing Japan
World Championships
Asian Games
Asian Championships
Asian Junior Championships
	BWF profile

Reiko Shiota (潮田玲子, Shiota Reiko, born 30 September 1983) is a Japanese badminton player, who affiliations with the Sanyo electric team. Shiota was the bronze medallist at the 2007 World Championships in the women's doubles event partnered with Kumiko Ogura. She also won the silver and bronze medals at the 2006 Asian Games in the women's team and doubles respectively. Shiota competed at the Olympic Games two times, in 2008 Beijing in the women's doubles event with Ogura, and in 2012 London in the mixed doubles event partnered with Shintaro Ikeda.

Career[]

Shiota was born in Kanda, Fukuoka, and after graduating from the Kyushu International University comes High School in 2002, she join the Sanyo Electric team.^[1] Partnered with Kumiko Ogura, they well-known as "Ogushio", became the women's doubles runner-up at the 2005 Asian Championships. She and Ogura won their first world grand prix title at the 2005 Denmark Open. In 2006, they won the women's doubles bronze medal at the Doha 2006 Asian Games, after defeated by Yang Wei and Zhang Jiewen in the semi finals. Shiota also help the Japanese women's team won the silver medal in the women's team event.^[2]

Shiota won the women's doubles bronze medal in the 2007 World Championships in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Ogushio were defeated in the semifinals by Gao Ling and Huang Sui of China, 16–21, 25–23, 6–21. In May 2008, she and Ogura ranked 6 in BWF World Ranking, and qualified to compete at the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics.^[2] In the first round they beat the Danish pair Lena Frier Kristiansen and Kamilla Rytter Juhl in the rubber games, but was defeated by Du Jing and Yu Yang of China in the second round in the straight games.^[3]

In 2009, she started to team-up with Shintaro Ikeda from Unisys, and in May 2010, Shiota also join the Unisys team. Shiota and Ikeda well-known as "Ikeshio", and they reaching the final round at the 2010 Dutch Open, 2011 German and Russian Open, and also in the BWF Superseries tournament at the 2012 Singapore Open, but they only finished as the runner-up. The Ikeshio participated at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, but the duo did not advance to the knock-out stage, after placing third in the group stage. At the competition, they won a match to Canadian pair Toby Ng and Grace Gao in the rubber games with the score 21–10, 11–21, 21–15, and lost in the straight games to Joachim Fischer Nielsen and Christinna Pedersen of Denmark, and Robert Mateusiak and Nadieżda Kostiuczyk of Poland in group B stage.

Personal life[]

On September 30, 2012 she married the footballer Tatsuya Masushima.^[4]^[5]

Achievements[]

BWF World Championships[]

Women's doubles

Year	Venue	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2007	Putra Indoor Stadium, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Kumiko Ogura	Gao Ling Huang Sui	16–21, 25–23, 6–21	Bronze

Asian Games[]

Women's doubles

Year	Venue	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2006	Aspire Hall 3, Doha, Qatar	Kumiko Ogura	Yang Wei Zhang Jiewen	22–20, 16–21, 9–21	Bronze

Asian Championships[]

Women's doubles

Year	Venue	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2007	Bandaraya Stadium, Johor Bahru, Malaysia	Kumiko Ogura	Yang Wei Zhao Tingting	15–21, 9–21	Bronze
2005	Gachibowli Indoor Stadium, Hyderabad, India	Kumiko Ogura	Lee Hyo-jung Lee Kyung-won	13–15, 15–8, 5–15	Silver

BWF Superseries[]

The BWF Superseries, launched on 14 December 2006 and implemented in 2007,^[6] is a series of elite badminton tournaments, sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF). BWF Superseries has two level such as Superseries and Superseries Premier. A season of Superseries features twelve tournaments around the world, which introduced since 2011,^[7] with successful players invited to the Superseries Finals held at the year end.

Women's doubles

Year	Tournament	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2012	Singapore Open	Shintaro Ikeda	Chen Hung-ling Cheng Wen-hsing	17–21, 11–21	Runner-up

BWF Superseries Finals tournament

BWF Superseries Premier tournament

BWF Superseries tournament

BWF Grand Prix[]

The BWF Grand Prix has two levels, the Grand Prix and Grand Prix Gold. It is a series of badminton tournaments, sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007. The World Badminton Grand Prix sanctioned by International Badminton Federation since 1983.

Women's doubles

Year	Tournament	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2005	Denmark Open	Kumiko Ogura	Gail Emms Donna Kellogg	15–6, 15–9	Winner

Mixed doubles

Year	Tournament	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2011	Russian Open	Shintaro Ikeda	Alexandr Nikolaenko Valeri Sorokina	18–21, 14–21	RUnner-up
2011	German Open	Shintaro Ikeda	Robert Blair Gabrielle White	21–16, 16–21, 15–21	RUnner-up
2010	Dutch Open	Shintaro Ikeda	Alexandr Nikolaenko Valeri Sorokina	20–22, 9–21	RUnner-up

BWF Grand Prix Gold tournament

BWF & IBF Grand Prix tournament

BWF International Challenge/Series/Satellite[]

Women's doubles

Year	Tournament	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2008	Osaka International	Kumiko Ogura	Ha Jung-eun Kim Min-jung	20–22, 21–8, 21–13	Winner
2007	Osaka International	Kumiko Ogura		21–12, 21–23, 14–21	Runner-up
2003	Smiling Fish Satellite	Kumiko Ogura	Duanganong Aroonkesorn Salakjit Ponsana		Runner-up
2003	Scottish International	Kumiko Ogura	Nicole Grether Juliane Schenk	8–15, 15–11, 15–12	Winner