Akane Yamaguchi's Profile, Net Worth, Car Collection

Akane Yamaguchi is a Japanese badminton player. She was a three-time world champion who won gold medals in the women’s singles at the 2021, 2022 and 2025 BWF World Championships. She was a member of the winning Japanese team at the Asian Junior Championships in 2012 and won the World Junior Championships in 2013 and 2014, the Asian Junior Championships in 2014, and the Asian Championships in 2019.

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Akane Yamaguchi’s Profile

Date of Birth: 6 June 1997

Place of Birth: Katsuyama, Fukui, Japan

Father’s Name: Information not available

Mother’s Name: Information not available

Height:1.56 m (5 ft 1+1⁄2 in)

Weight: 55 kg (121 lb)

Highest Ranking: 1 (19 April 2018)

Akane Yamaguchi’s Shot to Fame

Akane has been called a badminton prodigy from a very young age. She held a racquet for the first time at the age of three and started playing seriously at the age of five. She joined the Japanese national team at the age of 15, the youngest athlete to ever join. The following year in 2013, she won the singles title at the Japan Open making her the youngest player and first Japanese athlete to ever win the tournament.

She continued to add titles to her name including the Denmark Open where she beat London Olympic Gold Medalist, Carolina Marin. In 2018, she became the first Japanese athlete to reach the world No. 1 ranking.