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<p>is a Japanese <a href="/pages/w/112285278784684">badminton</a> player who is a singles specialist, well known for her speed, agility and endurance. She won a bronze medal in the <a href="/pages/w/103750482997054">2016 Olympics</a>. She became the world champion In 2017 in Glasgow, Scotland after winning in a hard-fought 110- minute match against India's PV Sindhu, winning by 21-19, 20-22, 22-20.</p><h2>Career</h2><p>In 2011, the then 16-year-old Nozomi Okuhara became the youngest women's singles champion ever at the All Japan Badminton Championships, which are the <a href="/pages/w/111309418919210">Japanese National Badminton Championships</a>. She won a BWF World junior title in the girls singles event at the <a href="/pages/w/126304604189856">2012 BWF World Junior Championships</a> after reaching the semi-finals, having won bronze one year earlier at the <a href="/pages/w/196464703769626">2011 BWF World Junior Championships</a>.</p><p>She was a runner-up at the <a href="/pages/w/367731476693303">2012 Asian Junior Badminton Championships</a>. Also in 2012, she won her first Grand Prix title at the <a href="/pages/w/155678961308165">2012 Canada Open Grand Prix</a>. In 2013, she was mainly absent from the court due to knee injury. She won her first <a href="/pages/w/433156783469296">BWF Super Series</a> title at the <a href="/pages/w/888134351277581">2015 Japan Super Series</a>.</p><p>In 2016, she won the prestigious <a href="/pages/w/104094282961505">All England Open</a> and thereby became the first Japanese women's singles player to lift this title in the past 39 years. She also won the bronze medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics. She lost to <a href="/pages/w/283351898456739">P.V. Sindhu</a> in the semi-finals, but won the bronze medal against <a href="/pages/w/264758186910431">Li Xuerui</a> of China in a walkover.</p>
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