is a Japanese

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player who is a doubles specialist. She won the gold medal at the 2016 Summer Olympic women's doubles alongside

Ayaka Takahashi is a retired Japanese badminton player who was affiliated with Unisys badminton team. She is an Olympic Games gold medalist, two-time Asian Champion, two-time Asian Games silver medalist, and World Championship bronze medalist. Playing for the ...

. Despite playing doubles, she was also a finalist in girls' singles at the

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in Mexico.

Career overview

In 2016, she won the women's doubles gold medal at the

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in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She and her women's doubles partner

were also honoured with the Female Player of the Year award. They have been 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 is a badminton player from Ashikita, Kumamoto, Japan and plays for the Renesas badminton club. Mizuki Fujii concentrates on doubles badminton. Most of her success has come with women's doubles partner Reika Kakiiwa. Together they reached the fin ...

and

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took silver at the 2012 London Olympic Games.

Achievements

Olympic Games

''Women's doubles''

BWF World Championships

''Women's doubles''

Asian Games

''Women's doubles''

Asian Championships

''Women's doubles'' ''Mixed doubles''

BWF World Junior Championships

''Girls' singles''

BWF World Tour (6 titles, 7 runners-up)

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(BWF). The BWF World Tour is divided into levels of World Tour Finals, Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300 (part of the HSBC World Tour), and the BWF Tour Super 100. ''Women's doubles'' ''Mixed doubles''

BWF Superseries (9 titles, 13 runners-up)

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(BWF). BWF Superseries levels were Superseries and Superseries Premier. A season of Superseries consisted of twelve tournaments around the world that had been introduced since 2011. Successful players were invited to the Superseries Finals, which were held at the end of each year. ''Women's doubles'' :

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tournament : BWF Superseries Premier tournament :

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tournament

BWF Grand Prix (6 titles, 2 runners-up)

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(BWF) and played between 2007 and 2017. ''Women's doubles'' ''Mixed doubles'' : BWF Grand Prix Gold tournament : BWF Grand Prix tournament

BWF International Challenge/Series (2 titles, 4 runners-up)

''Women's singles'' ''Women's doubles'' ''Mixed doubles'' :

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tournament :

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tournament

Performance timeline

National team

* ''Junior level'' * ''Senior level''

Individual competitions

Junior level

* ''Girls' singles'' * ''Mixed doubles''

Senior level

= Women's singles

= Women's doubles

= Mixed doubles

References

External links

* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Matsutomo, Misaki 1992 births Living people Sportspeople from Tokushima Prefecture Japanese female badminton players Badminton players at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics Badminton players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic badminton players of Japan Olympic gold medalists for Japan Olympic medalists in badminton Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Badminton players at the 2014 Asian Games Badminton players at the 2018 Asian Games Asian Games gold medalists for Japan Asian Games silver medalists for Japan Asian Games bronze medalists for Japan Asian Games medalists in badminton Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games World No. 1 badminton players BWF Best Female Player of the Year