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Misaki Matsutomo (松友 美佐紀, Matsutomo Misaki, born 8 February 1992) is a *anese badminton player who is a doubles specialist. She won the gold medal at the 2016 Summer Olympic women's doubles alongside Ayaka Takahashi. Despite playing doubles, she was also a finalist in girls' singles at the 2010 BWF World Junior Championships in Mexico.

Contents

• 1 Career overview
• 2 Achievements
  • 2.1 Olympic Games
  • 2.2 BWF World Championships
  • 2.3 Asian Games
  • 2.4 Asian Championships
  • 2.5 BWF World Junior Championships
  • 2.6 BWF World Tour (6 *les, 7 runners-up)
  • 2.7 BWF Superseries (9 *les, 13 runners-up)
  • 2.8 BWF Grand Prix (6 *les, 2 runners-up)
  • 2.9 BWF International Challenge/Series (2 *les, 4 runners-up)
• 3 Performance timeline
  • 3.1 National team
  • 3.2 Individual compe*ions
    • 3.2.1 Junior level
    • 3.2.2 Senior level
      • 3.2.2.1 Women's singles
      • 3.2.2.2 Women's doubles
      • 3.2.2.3 Mixed doubles
• 4 References
• 5 External links

Career overview

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 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 *le since the 1996 Atlanta Games, giving *an its second medal in the event after Mizuki Fujii and Reika Kakiiwa 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 *les, 7 runners-up)

The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018, is a series of elite badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF). The BWF World Tours are 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 *les, 13 runners-up)

The BWF Superseries, which was launched on 14 December 2006 and implemented in 2007, was a series of elite badminton tournaments, sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (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

: BWF Superseries Finals tournament: BWF Superseries Premier tournament: BWF Superseries tournament

BWF Grand Prix (6 *les, 2 runners-up)

The BWF Grand Prix had two levels, the Grand Prix and Grand Prix Gold. It was a series of badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (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 *les, 4 runners-up)

Women's singles

Women's doubles

Mixed doubles

: BWF International Challenge tournament: BWF International Series tournament

Performance timeline

Key(W) won; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (A) absent; (G) gold, (S) silver or (B) bronze medal; (NH) not held; (N/A) not applicable; (DNQ) did not qualify. To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.

National team

• Junior level

• Senior level

Individual compe*ions

Junior level

• Girls' singles

• Mixed doubles

Senior level

Women's singles

Women's doubles

Mixed doubles

References

External links

• Misaki Matsutomo at BWF.tournamentsoftware.com
• Misaki Matsutomo at BWFbadminton.com
• Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et:al. "Misaki Matsutomo". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2016-12-04.