# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wakana-nagahara
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:39:20.192Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wakana-nagahara"
name: "Wakana Nagahara"
slug: "wakana-nagahara"
description: "Wakana Nagahara  is a Japanese badminton player. She is a two-time world champion in the women's doubles. Nagahara attended Aomori Yamada High School, and was part of the Japanese national junior team that won the bronze medals at the 2013, 2014 Asian and 2014 World Junior Championships. She won her first senior international title at the 2014 Smiling Fish International in the women's doubles event partnered with Mayu Matsumoto. In national events, she plays for the Hokuto Bank team. Nagahara was awarded as the 2018 Most Improved Player of the Year by the BWF together with her partner Mayu Matsumoto. They obtained the honour after winning the 2018 BWF World Championships title and improving their ranking from 14 to 3 in the world. On 30 April 2019, she reached a career high as the women's doubles world No. 1."
tagline: "Japanese badminton player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/BWF_Badminton_World_Tour.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "JP"
category:
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  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
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  slug: "athlete"
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birthDate: "1996-01-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             8.230142459128423
  historical:           8.995397333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "a_wkn19"
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    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/wkn0109/"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakana_Nagahara"
    title: "Wakana Nagahara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakana_Nagahara"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump