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Country
  
Japan

Highest ranking
  
1

Height
  
1.59 m

Name
  
Misaki Matsutomo

Handedness
  
Right


Misaki Matsutomo Misaki Matsutomo Photos BCA Indonesia Open Zimbio

Born
  
February 8, 1992 (age 33) Tokushima, Japan (
1992-02-08
)

Current ranking
  
1 (since April 2, 2015)

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Misaki Matsutomo (松友 美佐紀, Matsutomo Misaki, born 8 February 1992) is a Japanese badminton player who is a doubles specialist. Despite playing in doubles department in senior, she was also a finalist in girls' singles at the 2010 BWF World Junior Championships in Mexico.

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M.Mat/A.Tak v T.Qin/Z.Yun |WD| Day 5 Match 2 - BWF Destination Dubai 2014


Career

In 2016, she won the women's doubles gold medal at the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She and her women's doubles partner Ayaka Takahashi were also honoured with the Female Player of the Year award. They are playing together for more than ten years, ever since they were schoolmates. Matsutomo and Takahashi became the first pair from outside China to win the women’s Olympic doubles title since the 1996 Atlanta Games, giving Japan its second medal in the event after Mizuki Fujii and Reika Kakiiwa took silver at the 2012 London Olympic Games.

Olympic Games

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Women's doubles

BWF World Championships

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Women's doubles

Asian Games

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Women's doubles

Badminton Asia Championships

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Women's doubles

Mixed doubles

BWF World Junior Championships

Girls' singles

BWF Superseries

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

Women's doubles

     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.

Women's doubles

Mixed doubles

     BWF Grand Prix Gold tournament     BWF Grand Prix tournament

BWF International Challenge/Series

Women's singles

Women's doubles

Mixed doubles

     BWF International Challenge tournament     BWF International Series tournament

References

Misaki Matsutomo Wikipedia


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