Wakaba Higuchi

Wakaba Higuchi
nation	Japan
birthday	January 2, 2001
place of birth	Tokyo
size	152 cm
Career
discipline	Single run
society	Nihonbashi Jogakan Junior High School FSC
Trainer	Koji Okajima, Noriko Sato, Yuka Kagayama
choreographer	Shae-Lynn Bourne , Marina Sujewa , Massimo Scali
status	active
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 1 × 0 × VKM medals 0 × 0 × 0 ×
World figure skating championships silver Milan 2018 Ladies
Personal best
Total points 217.63 Lombardy T. 2017  Freestyle 145.30 WTT 2017  Short program 74.26 Lombardy T. 2017
Placements in the figure skating Grand Prix
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Grand Prix Final 0 0 0  Grand Prix competitions 0 1 2
last change: March 24, 2018

Wakaba Higuchi ( Japanese 樋 口 新 葉 , Higuchi, Wakaba ; born January 2, 2001 in Tokyo ) is a Japanese figure skater who starts in a single run .

Higuchi won the silver medal in her second participation in world championships in 2018 at the World Cup in Milan . She owed this mainly to her strong freestyle performance at Skyfall , which enabled her to make up six places after finishing eighth in the short program.

Results

Championship / year	2015	2016	2017	2018
winter Olympics
World championships			11.	2.
Four continents championships			9.
Junior World Championships	3.	3.
Japanese championships	3.	2.	2.	4th
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Grand Prix competition / season	14/15	15/16	16/17	17/18
Grand Prix Final				6th
Cup of Russia				3.
Eric Bompard Trophy			3.
NHK Trophy			4th
Cup of China				2.

Web links

Commons : Wakaba Higuchi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Wakaba Higuchi in the database of the International Skating Union (English)