Wakaba Higuchi

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Born
2001 (24 years old)
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Tokyo, Japan

Position
Figure Skater

Status
Active

Ethnicity
Asian

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Height
152 cm

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Sport

Skating

Team
Japan Figure Skating Women

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League
Olympics Figure Skating

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Latest Results

					Women Single Skating Free Skating	17 Feb 22
					Women Single Skating Short Program	15 Feb 22

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Wakaba Higuchi (樋口新葉, Higuchi Wakaba, born January 2, 2001) is a Japanese figure skater. She is the 2018 World silver medalist and a five-time Japanese national medalist (bronze in 2015, silver in 2016, 2017, 2020, and 2022). On the junior level, she is a two-time World Junior bronze medalist (2015, 2016), the 2014–15 Junior Grand Prix Final bronze medalist, and a two-time Japan Junior national champion (2015, 2016). She won a bronze medal in team event representing Japan at the 2022 Winter Olympics.

Higuchi is currently the 19th highest ranked women's singles skater in the world by the International Skating Union following the 2020–21 figure skating season. She is the seventeenth woman to land a clean triple Axel internationally, and the fifth woman to land a clean triple Axel at the Olympics.

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