Dánica Nishimura Higa (born 11 September 1996) is a Peruvian
badminton
Badminton is a racquet sport played using racket (sports equipment), racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net (device), net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per s ...
player.
Career
Nishimura started playing badminton at aged 10 in AELU club. In 2008 she competed in the junior event and at the same year, she joined the national team.
In 2013, she won the bronze medal at the
Pan Am Badminton Championships
The Pan American Badminton Championships is a tournament organized since 1977 by the Badminton Pan America (BPA) to crown the best badminton players in the Americas.
The tournament was held every year from 1977 until 1980, then every two years from ...
in women's doubles partnering with
Daniela Macías, then in 2016, she won the bronze medals in the women's doubles and mixed team events.
Nishimura claimed two gold medals in the individual event at the
2018 South American Games
The 2018 South American Games was a multi-sport event that took place in Cochabamba, Bolivia. It was the 11th edition of the ODESUR South American Games.
A total of 373 sporting events are scheduled to be contested across a variety of sports.
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in the women's and mixed doubles, and also helped the team clinch the silver medal.
Achievements
Pan Am Championships
''Women's doubles''
South American Games
''Women's doubles''
''Mixed doubles''
BWF International Challenge/Series (23 titles, 13 runners-up)
''Women's singles''
''Women's doubles''
''Mixed doubles''
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BWF International Challenge
The BWF International Challenge is a grade 3 and level 1 tournament part of Continental Circuit of BWF tournaments along with International Series (level 2) and Future Series (level 3), sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007.
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tournament
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BWF International Series
The BWF International Series is a grade 3 and level 2 tournament part of Continental Circuit of BWF tournaments along with International Challenge (level 1) and Future Series (level 3), sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007.
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tournament
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BWF Future Series
The BWF Future Series is a grade 3 and level 3 tournaments part of Continental Circuit of BWF tournaments along with International Challenge (level 1) and International Series (level 2), sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007. ...
tournament
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1996 births
Living people
Badminton players from Lima
Peruvian people of Japanese descent
Peruvian female badminton players
Badminton players at the 2015 Pan American Games
Badminton players at the 2019 Pan American Games
Pan American Games competitors for Peru
Competitors at the 2018 South American Games
South American Games gold medalists for Peru
South American Games silver medalists for Peru
South American Games medalists in badminton