Rei Higuchi
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| Rei Higuchi medal table |
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|---|---|---|
| Japan | ||
| Olympic games | ||
| silver | 2016 Rio de Janeiro | up to 57 kg |
| U 23 World Championship | ||
| gold | 2018 Bucharest | up to 65 kg |
| Asian Championships | ||
| bronze | 2017 New Delhi | up to 61 kg |
Rei Higuchi ( Japanese 樋 口 黎 , Higuchi Rei ; born January 28, 1996 in Osaka , Osaka Prefecture ) is a Japanese wrestler . He won a silver medal in free style in the weight class up to 57 kg body weight at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro .
Career
Rei Higuchi started wrestling as a teenager in 2003. He is a student at the Japanese Sports University in Tokyo, for whose sports club he also starts. It is 1.63 meters tall and starts with a "normal weight" of approx. 63 kg in the weight classes up to 57 kg or 61 kg body weight. His coaches are or were Takahiro Wada , Kenichi Yumoto and Kazuhito Sakae , all of them former successful wrestlers themselves.
The international success of Rei Higuchi is limited to the Asian Champion title of the Juniors (Cadets) 2012 in the weight class up to 54 kg. In 2013 he came in 8th place at the Junior World Championship (Cadets) in Zrenjanin in the weight class up to 58 kg and at the Junior World Championship (Juniors) 2015 in Salvador da Bahia he was eliminated in the weight class up to 60 kg after a defeat in the 1st round and only finished 21st.
In 2015, Rei Higuchi was the first Japanese champion in the weight class up to 57 kg. Then he made a huge leap in performance, which was shown at the 2016 Olympic qualification tournament in Astana. He won there in the weight class up to 57 kg before the South Korean Yun Jun-sik and thus won the right to start at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. In Rio he was in excellent form and defeated the 2014 world champion and co-favorites Yang Kyong-Il from North Korea , Asadulla Lachinau from Belarus , Yowlys Bonne Rodriguez, Cuba and the 2013 world champion and reigning vice-world champion Hassan Rahimi Sabzali from Iran . In the final against the Georgian Wladimer Chintschegaschwili , Rei Higuchi led 3: 2 points until a few seconds before the end, but then gave up two technical points and therefore lost this final fight with 3: 4 points. He thus won the silver medal.
In December 2016, Rei Higuchi became Japanese champion in the weight class up to 61 kg and also started in this weight class at the Asian Championships in New Delhi in May 2017. In New Delhi he won a bronze medal behind Behnam Ehsanpoor from Iran and Kim Han-song from South Korea.
Whether he will always start in the weight class up to 61 kg in the future will probably depend on whether he can manage to break down into the weight class up to 57 kg without too much loss of substance. From 2018, Rei Higuchi even started in the weight class up to 65 kg body weight. In June of this year he took second place behind Takuto Otoguro at the so-called Meiji Cup in Tokyo, the qualifying tournament for the world championships . Therefore, it was not used at the 2018 World Cup in Budapest. But he started at the U23 World Championships in Bucharest in the same weight class and won the title there with five wins over consistently difficult opponents.
At the Meiji Cup 2019 in Tokyo, Rei Higuchi defeated the reigning world champion Takuto Otoguro , whom he knocked off the mat in the weight class up to 65 kg after 5.47 minutes with 15: 5 points. Since Takuto Otoguro was granted by the Japanese Wrestling Association to not have been in full possession of his powers in this fight because of an injury, Rei Higuchi had to wrestle again against Takuto Otoguro a month later in Wako City by order of the association. Otoguro won this fight, which was then used at the 2019 World Cup in Nur-Sultan.
In December 2019, Rei Higuchi was again Japanese champion in the weight class up to 57 kg, in which he had trained.
International success
| year | space | competition | Weight class | Results |
| 2012 | 1. | Asian Junior Championship (Cadets) in Bishkek | up to 54 kg | in front of Baurschan Torebek, Kazakhstan |
| 2013 | 8th. | Junior World Championships (Cadets) in Zrenjanin | up to 58 kg | Winner: Selim Kozan, Turkey, ahead of Ramas Zoidze, Georgia |
| 2015 | 3. | Presidents Cup of Buryatia in Ulan-Ude | up to 57 kg | behind Tsogtbataar Damdinbazar, Mongolia and Fumikata Morishita, Japan |
| 2015 | 3. | Mongolian Open in Ulaanbaatar | up to 57 kg | behind Bechbayar Erdenebat, Mongolia and Fumikate Morishita |
| 2015 | 21st | Junior World Championships (Juniors) in Salvador da Bahia | up to 60 kg | Winner: Iman Sadeghikoukandeh, Iran ahead of Ibrahim Abdelhamid, Egypt |
| 2016 | 1. | Olympic qualification tournament in Astana | up to 57 kg | before Yun Jun-sik, South Korea and Rahul Balasaheb Aware, India |
| 2016 | 1. | Macedonian Pearl in Skopje | up to 61 kg | before Jasin Redjalari, Macedonia and Iwan Molnar, Slovakia |
| 2016 | 1. | "Wacław-Ziółkowski" Memorial in Spała | up to 57 kg | before Vladimir Dubow , Bulgaria and Ismail Musukayev, Russia |
| 2016 | silver | OS in Rio de Janeiro | up to 57 kg | after victories over Yang Kyong-il, North Korea, Asadulla Lachinau, Belarus, Yowlys Bonne Rodriguez , Cuba and Hassan Rahimi Sabzali, Iran and a defeat against Wladimer Chintschegaschwili, Georgia |
| 2017 | 3. | "Ivan Yarigen" -Golden Grand Prix Krasnoyarsk | up to 61 kg | behind Achmed Tschakajew and Gadschimurad Raschidow, both Russia |
| 2017 | 3. | Asian Championship in New Delhi | up to 61 kg | behind Behnam Ehsanpoor, Iran and Kim Han-song, South Korea |
| 2018 | 7th | "Dimitri-Korkin" tournament in Yakutsk | up to 65 kg | Winner: Wiktor Rassadin, Russia ahead of Tulga Tumur-Ochir, Mongolia |
| 2018 | 1. | U23 World Cup in Bucharest | up to 65 kg | after victories over Tulga Tumur-Ochir, Surjeet Singh, India, Islam Dudajew, Russia, Morteza Hassanali Ghiasi Cheka, Iran and Ali Rahmizadeh, Azerbaijan |
Japanese championships
| year | space | Weight class | Results |
| 2015 | 1. | up to 57 kg | before Yosuke Kawano |
| 2016 | 1. | up to 61 kg | before Shoya Shimae |
| 2018 | 5. | up to 65 kg | behind Takuto Otoguro , Daichi Takatani , Rinya Nakamura and Koki Shimizu |
| 2019 | 1. | up to 57 kg | before Yūki Takahashi , Kotaro Kiyooto and Yudai Fujita |
- Explanations
- all free style competitions
- OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship
literature
- Trade journal Der Ringer
Web links
- Profile of Rei Higuchi at the Institute for Applied Training Science
- Rei Higuchi at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro
- Rei Higuchi (red) defeated the South Korean Yun Jun-sik at the 2016 Olympic Qualification Tournament in Astana
Individual evidence
- ↑ 樋 口 黎 選手 ─ レ ス リ ン グ . Japanese Sport University, accessed May 30, 2017 (Japanese).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Higuchi, Rei |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 樋 口 黎 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese wrestler |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 28, 1996 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Osaka |