YAMAGUCHI Akane

Olympic Games

Rank	Event	Year	Location
Quarterfinal	Women's Singles	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA

Youth Olympic Games

Rank	Event	Year	Location
2	Women's Singles	2014	Nanjing, CHN
9	Mixed Doubles	2014	Nanjing, CHN

World Championships

Rank	Event	Year	Location
3	Women's Singles	2018	Nanjing, CHN
Last 16	Women's Singles	2017	Glasgow, GBR
Last 32	Women's Singles	2019	Basel, SUI

Asian Games

Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Women's Team	2018	Indonesia
3	Women's Singles	2018	Indonesia

Asian Championships

Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Women's Singles	2019	Wuhan, CHN
2	Women's Singles	2017	Wuhan, CHN

Asian Championships Team

Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Women's Team	2020	Manila, PHI
1	Women's Team	2018	Alor Setar, MAS
1	Mixed Team	2017	Ho Chi Minh City, VIE

HSBC BWF World Tour Finals

Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Women's Singles	2017	Dubai, UAE
3	Women's Singles	2019	Guangzhou, CHN
3	Women's Singles	2018	Guangzhou, CHN

BWF World Tour - Eliminations per phase since 2017

Year	Event	W	RU	SF	QF	L16	L32	L64	Group
2021	Singles	-	-	-	1x	-	-	-	-
2020	Singles	1x	-	-	1x	1x	2x	-	-
2019	Singles	3x	1x	6x	-	1x	5x	-	-
2018	Singles	2x	1x	3x	5x	2x	-	-	-
2017	Singles	1x	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

BWF World Superseries - Eliminations per phase since 2017

Year	Event	W	RU	SF	QF	L16	L32
2017	Singles	1x	3x	3x	5x	-	-

World Tour & World Superseries - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location
1	2020	Women's Singles	BWF World Tour	Bangkok, THA
1	2019	Women's Singles	BWF World Tour	Tokyo, JPN
1	2019	Women's Singles	BWF World Tour	Jakarta, INA
1	2019	Women's Singles	BWF World Tour	Mulheim an der Ruhr, GER
1	2018	Women's Singles	BWF World Tour	Paris, FRA
1	2018	Women's Singles	BWF World Tour	Mulheim an der Ruhr, GER
1	2017	Women's Singles	BWF World Superseries	Fuzhou, CHN
1	2017	Women's Singles	BWF World Tour	Mulheim an der Ruhr, GER
2	2019	Women's Singles	BWF World Tour	Kuala Lumpur, MAS
2	2018	Women's Singles	BWF World Tour	Birmingham, GBR
2	2017	Women's Singles	BWF World Superseries	Paris, FRA
2	2017	Women's Singles	BWF World Superseries	Odense, DEN
2	2017	Women's Singles	BWF World Superseries	Sydney, NSW, AUS

Thomas & Uber Cup

Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Women's Team	2018	Bangkok, THA

TOTAL BWF Sudirman Cup

Rank	Event	Year	Location
2	Mixed Team	2019	Nanning, CHN
3	Mixed Team	2017	Gold Coast, QLD, AUS

Legend
W - Winner, RU - Runner-up, SF - Semifinal, QF - Quarterfinal, L16 - Last 16, L32 - Last 32, L64 - Last 64, M - Men, W - Women, X - Mixed

Playing the piano. (nikkansports.com, 28 Jul 2019)

Athlete

Japanese

Saishunkan [Kumamoto, JPN]

Yuichi Ikeda [club], JPN; Park Joo-Bong [national], KOR

Right (bwfbadminton.com, 14 Dec 2019)

2012 for Japan (bwf.tournamentsoftware.com, 01 Jan 2015)

Her training was disrupted ahead of the 2019 World Championships in Basel, Switzerland, due to a back injury. She then injured her right calf the month after the tournament. (chunichi.co.jp, 27 Nov 2019, 31 Jan 2020; the-ans.jp, 30 Sep 2019; the-ans.jp, 21 Aug 2019)

She was unable to compete at the 2016 Badminton Asia Team Championships in Hyderabad, India, due to a right thigh injury. (sponichi.co.jp, 27 Jan 2016)

She began playing badminton at age three in Fukui, Japan, and took up the sport competitively at age five. (Athlete, 30 Sep 2014; hochi.news, 13 Aug 2019)

She was encouraged by her two older brothers, who both played the sport. (Athlete, 30 Sep 2014)

To win a gold medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (hochi.news, 13 Aug 2019)

Japanese badminton player Shoji Sato. (Athlete, 30 Sep 2014)

Her older brother. (Athlete, 30 Sep 2014)

In 2018 she received the Katsuyama Citizen Honorary Award in Japan. (fukuishimbun.co.jp, 20 Apr 2018)

She received the Fukui Prefecture Sports Special Award in 2018 in Japan. (asahi.com, 06 Feb 2018)

In 2015 she was presented with the Yoneyama Minoru Award by the Yonex Sports Foundation in Japan. (sponichi.co.jp, 19 Jun 2015)

She received a Rookie Award at the 2014 Japanese Olympic Committee [JOC] Sports Awards. (unisys.co.jp, 15 Jun 2015)

She was named 2013 and 2014 Most Promising Player of the Year by the Badminton World Federation [BWF]. (bwfbadminton.org, 27 May 2016)