Rei Higuchi

Rei Higuchi
Higuchi at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Personal information
Nationality Japan
Born樋口黎
(1996-01-28) January 28, 1996
Height163 cm (5 ft 4 in)
Sport
Country Japan
SportWrestling
Weight class61 kg
Event
Freestyle
ClubNippon Sport Science University;Tokyo
Coached byKenichi Yumoto

Kazuhito Sakae

Takahiro Wada
Achievements and titles
Olympic finals (2016) (2024)
World finals (2022) (2023)
Regional finals (2022)
Medal record
Men's freestyle wrestling
Representing  Japan
Olympic Games
2024 Paris 57 kg
2016 Rio de Janeiro 57 kg
World Championships
2022 Belgrade 61 kg
2023 Belgrade 57 kg
Asian Championships
2022 Ulaanbaatar 61 kg
2017 New Delhi 61 kg
Grand Prix
2024 Budapest 57 kg
2017 Krasnoyarsk 61 kg
2016 Spala 57 kg
2016 Skopje 61 kg
2015 Ulaanbaatar 57 kg
2015 Ulan-Ude 61 kg
World U23 Championships
2018 Bucharest 65 kg

Rei Higuchi (Japanese: 樋口黎; born 28 January 1996) is a Japanese freestyle wrestler. He won the gold medal in the men's freestyle 57 kg event at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. He won a silver medal in the 57 kg division at the 2016 Olympics. He won the gold medal in the 61 kg event at the 2022 World Wrestling Championships held in Belgrade, Serbia.