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Nozomi Okuhara was born on 13 March, 1995 in Ōmachi, Nagano, Japan, is a Japanese badminton player. Discover Nozomi Okuhara's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 29 years old?
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29 years old |
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13 March, 1995 |
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Ōmachi, Nagano, Japan |
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United Kingdom
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Nozomi Okuhara Height, Weight & Measurements
At 29 years old, Nozomi Okuhara height is 1.56 m and Weight 52 kg.
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1.56 m |
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52 kg |
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She is currently single. She is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about She's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, She has no children.
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Nozomi Okuhara Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Nozomi Okuhara worth at the age of 29 years old? Nozomi Okuhara’s income source is mostly from being a successful Player. She is from United Kingdom. We have estimated Nozomi Okuhara's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
Nozomi Okuhara (奥原 希望) is a Japanese badminton player.
A former World's number 1 in the BWF rankings for the women's singles, she is well known for her speed, agility and endurance.
Okuhara started playing badminton in 2002.
Eight years later, in 2010, she joined the Japanese national team.
The 2010 Osaka International Challenge became her international debut.
In 2010, Okuhara reached the final of Lao International which she lost to Nitchaon Jindapol.
The 16-year-old Okuhara became the youngest women's singles champion ever at the Japanese National Championships in 2011.
Additionally, she won the Austrian title by defeating her teammate Mayu Sekiya and a bronze medal at World Junior Championships.
Okuhara was a runner-up at the Asian Junior Championships, and helped her team in winning the mixed team title.
She later clinched the gold medal at the World Junior Championships, having won bronze one year earlier at the 2011 BWF World Junior Championships.
In July, she won her first Grand Prix title at the Canada Open.
In 2013, while competing in her quarterfinal match against Saina Nehwal at Malaysia Open, she suffered a severe knee injury in the 3rd game and remained out of International circuit for almost an year.
On her way to returning to elite competition, she participated in her first tournament in November since her last in January 2013 at the China Premier event.
In 2014, she won the New Zealand Open beating Kana Ito in final.
She also won the Vietnam Open and Korean Grand Prix titles.
She reached her first Superseries final at the Hong Kong Open in year end.
On her way to the final, she defeated Reigning World Champion Carolina Marín in the semifinal in 2 very one-sided games.
Okuhara won two Grand Prix Gold titles at Malaysia and United States.
She also won China International event.
At the Malaysian Superseries event, she played the longest ever Women's singles match against Wang Shixian in quarterfinal which lasted for whopping 111 minutes.
Okuhara lost that match and was cramping heavily at the end.
Scorecard was 21–19, 15–21, 20–22 in favour of Shixian.
She won her first Superseries title at Japan Open in the final defeating her colleague Akane Yamaguchi with score of 21–18, 21–12.
At the World Championships in Jakarta seeded 9th, she failed to get past Thai Porntip Buranaprasertsuk in 1st round having lost to her twice before.
Just like previous season, Okuhara again reached the final of Hong Kong Open.
She lost a very difficult encounter to Carolina Marín there, a contest of 3 games with very tight scoreline.
At the end of the 2015 BWF season, she won the Dubai World Superseries final.
On her path through without dropping a single game, she defeated all of her opponents namely Saina Nehwal, Tai Tzu-ying and top seed Carolina Marín.
She defeated Marín twice, first in the preliminary round and again in semifinals with very one-sided scores.
She won a bronze at the 2016 Summer Olympics, and gold medal at the 2017 World Championships.
In 2016, she won the prestigious All England Open on her Birthday after defeating Wang Shixian in the final with score 21–11, 16–21, 21–19, and thereby became the first Japanese women's singles player to lift this title in 39 years since Hiroe Yuki's triumph back in 1977.
She was seeded 6th for Rio Olympic Games.
She defeated Akane Yamaguchi in quarterfinal 11–21, 21–17, 21–10 and reached the semis.
Her opponent for semifinal was No. 9 seed P. V. Sindhu.
Okuhara had no answers to Indian's attacking play and she went down in 2-straight games 19–21, 10–21.
In the bronze medal match she was given walkover against Li Xuerui of China as her opponent was injured.
In the process, she became Japan's first ever Badminton Women's singles player to win an Olympic medal.