Rei Higuchi

{{short description|Japanese freestyle wrestler (born 1996)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}}

{{Infobox sportsperson

| name = Rei Higuchi

| birth_name = 樋口黎

| fullname =

| nationality = {{JPN}}

| image = Rei Higuchi Rio2016.jpg

| image_size = 200px

| caption = Higuchi at the 2016 Summer Olympics

| headercolor = Gold

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1996|1|28}}

| birth_place = Japan

| death_date =

| death_place =

| height = 163 cm

| weight =

| country = {{JPN}}

| sport = Wrestling

| weight_class = 61 kg

| event = Freestyle

| universityteam =

| club = Nippon Sport Science University;Tokyo

| coach = Kenichi Yumoto

Kazuhito Sakae

Takahiro Wada

| worlds = {{World1}} (2022)

{{World2}} (2023)

| regionals = {{Asia1}} (2022)

| show-medals = yes

| olympics = {{OG2}} (2016)

{{OG1}} (2024)

| medaltemplates = {{Medal|Sport| Men's freestyle wrestling }}

{{Medal|Country| {{JPN}} }}

{{Medal|Competition | Olympic Games }}

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{{Medal|Gold| 2024 Paris | 57 kg}}

{{Medal|Silver| 2016 Rio de Janeiro | 57 kg}}

{{Medal|Competition| World Championships }}

{{Medal|Gold| 2022 Belgrade | 61 kg }}

{{Medal|Silver| 2023 Belgrade | 57 kg }}

{{Medal|Competition| Asian Championships }}

{{Medal|Gold| 2022 Ulaanbaatar |61 kg }}

{{Medal|Bronze| 2017 New Delhi | 61 kg }}

{{Medal|Competition| Grand Prix }}

{{Medal|Gold| 2024 Budapest | 57 kg }}

{{Medal|Bronze| 2017 Krasnoyarsk | 61 kg }}

{{Medal|Gold| 2016 Spala | 57 kg }}

{{Medal|Gold| 2016 Skopje | 61 kg }}

{{Medal|Bronze| 2015 Ulaanbaatar | 57 kg }}

{{Medal|Bronze| 2015 Ulan-Ude | 61 kg }}

{{Medal|Competition| World U23 Championships }}

{{MedalGold| 2018 Bucharest | 65 kg }}

}}

Rei Higuchi (Japanese: 樋口黎; born 28 January 1996) is a Japanese freestyle wrestler. He won the gold medal in the men's freestyle 57{{nbsp}}kg event at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.{{Cite web |title=Wrestling Results Book |url=https://olympics.com/OG2024/pdf/OG2024/WRE/OG2024_WRE_B99_WRE-------------------------------.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240811181048/https://olympics.com/OG2024/pdf/OG2024/WRE/OG2024_WRE_B99_WRE-------------------------------.pdf |archive-date=11 August 2024 |access-date=12 August 2024 |website=2024 Summer Olympics}} He won a silver medal in the 57 kg division at the 2016 Olympics.{{cite web |url=https://www.rio2016.com/en/athlete/rei-higuchi |title=Rei Higuchi |accessdate=19 August 2016 |work=Rio 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160826111513/https://www.rio2016.com/en/athlete/rei-higuchi |archive-date=2016-08-26 |url-status=live }}[https://www.iat.uni-leipzig.de/datenbanken/dbfoeldeak/daten.php?spid=9EC6FEE3872540F5938822A7A830288D Higuchi, Rei (JPN)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160820105837/https://www.iat.uni-leipzig.de/datenbanken/dbfoeldeak/daten.php?spid=9EC6FEE3872540F5938822A7A830288D# |date=2016-08-20 }}. iat.uni-leipzig.de He won the gold medal in the 61{{nbsp}}kg event at the 2022 World Wrestling Championships held in Belgrade, Serbia.{{Cite web |title=2022 World Wrestling Championships Results Book |url=https://cdn.uww.org/s3fs-public/2022-09/final-book-2022-senior-world-championships_compressed.pdf?VersionId=zoTz_Ra8zK5EkVhfrZuDG5THXf4.3ik. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220918183512/https://cdn.uww.org/s3fs-public/2022-09/final-book-2022-senior-world-championships_compressed.pdf?VersionId=zoTz_Ra8zK5EkVhfrZuDG5THXf4.3ik. |archive-date=18 September 2022 |access-date=18 September 2022 |website=United World Wrestling}}