Wakaba Higuchi

Wakaba Higuchi
Native name樋口 新葉
Born (2001-01-02) January 2, 2001
Tokyo, Japan
HometownTokyo, Japan
Height1.52 m (5 ft 0 in)
Figure skating career
Country Japan
Coach
Skating clubNOEVIR
Began skating2004
Event
Olympic Games 0 1 0
World Championships 0 1 0
Japan Championships 0 4 2
World Team Trophy 1 0 0
World Junior Championships 0 0 2
Junior Grand Prix Final 0 0 1
Medal list
Olympic Games
2022 Beijing Team
World Championships
2018 Milan Singles
Japan Championships
2015–16 Sapporo Singles
2016–17 Osaka Singles
2019–20 Tokyo Singles
2021–22 Saitama Singles
2014–15 Nagano Singles
2024–25 Osaka Singles
World Team Trophy
2017 Tokyo Team
World Junior Championships
2015 Tallinn Singles
2016 Debrecen Singles
Junior Grand Prix Final
2014–15 Barcelona Singles

Wakaba Higuchi (樋口 新葉, Higuchi Wakaba; born January 2, 2001) is a Japanese figure skater. She is a 2022 Olympic team event silver medalist, the 2018 World silver medalist, the 2024 Skate America champion, a three-time Grand Prix silver medalist (2017 Cup of China; 2020 NHK Trophy; 2024 Grand Prix de France), a three-time Grand Prix bronze medalist (2016 and 2021 Grand Prix de France; 2017 Rostelecom Cup), a three-time Challenger Series medalist, and a six-time Japanese national medalist (bronze in 2015 and 2025, 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).

Higuchi is the seventeenth woman to land a clean triple Axel internationally, the fourth woman to land a clean triple Axel at the Olympics, and one of two women (the other being Mao Asada) to land multiple clean triple axels at a single Olympics.