Reiko Shiota

is a Japanese badminton player, affiliated with the Sanyo electric team. Shiota was the bronze medallist at the 2007 World Championships in the women's doubles event partnered with Kumiko Ogura. She also won the silver and bronze medals at the 2006 Asian Games in the women's team and doubles respectively. Shiota competed at the Olympic Games two times, in 2008 Beijing in the women's doubles event with Ogura, and in 2012 London in the mixed doubles event partnered with Shintaro Ikeda.

Career Shiota was born in Kanda, Fukuoka, and after graduating from the Kyushu International University High School in 2002, she joined the Sanyo Electric team. Partnered with Kumiko Ogura, they were popularly known as "Ogushio" and became the women's doubles runner-up at the 2005 Asian Championships. She and Ogura won their first world grand prix title at the 2005 Denmark Open. In 2006, they won the women's doubles bronze medal at the Doha 2006 Asian Games, after being defeated by Yang Wei and Zhang Jiewen in the semi-finals. Shiota also helped the Japanese women's team win the silver medal in the women's team event.

Shiota won the women's doubles bronze medal in the 2007 World Championships in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Ogushio were defeated in the semifinals by Gao Ling and Huang Sui of China, 16–21, 25–23, 6–21. In May 2008, she and Ogura ranked 6 in BWF World Ranking, and qualified to compete at the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics.

In 2009, she started to team up with Shintaro Ikeda from Unisys, and in May 2010, Shiota also joined the Unisys team. In November 2010, she served as the flag bearer for the Japanese delegation at the Asian Games in Guangzhou. Shiota and Ikeda popularly known as "Ikeshio", reached the final round at the 2010 Dutch Open, 2011 German and Russian Open, and also in the BWF Superseries tournament at the 2012 Singapore Open, but they only finished as the runner-up. The Ikeshio-combi participated in the 2012 Olympic Games in London, but the duo did not advance to the knock-out stage, after placing third in the group stage. In the competition, they won a match against the Canadian pair Toby Ng and Grace Gao in the rubber game with the score 21–10, 11–21, 21–15, and lost in straight games to Joachim Fischer Nielsen and Christinna Pedersen of Denmark, and Robert Mateusiak and Nadieżda Kostiuczyk of Poland in group B stage.

Personal life On September 30, 2012 she married the footballer Tatsuya Masushima.

Achievements

BWF World Championships Women's doubles

Asian Games Women's doubles

Asian Championships Women's doubles

BWF Superseries The BWF Superseries, launched on 14 December 2006 and implemented in 2007, is a series of elite badminton tournaments, sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF). BWF Superseries has two level such as Superseries and Superseries Premier. A season of Superseries features twelve tournaments around the world, which introduced since 2011, with successful players invited to the Superseries Finals held at the year end.

Mixed doubles BWF Superseries tournament

BWF Grand Prix The BWF Grand Prix has two levels, the Grand Prix and Grand Prix Gold. It is a series of badminton tournaments, sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007. The World Badminton Grand Prix sanctioned by International Badminton Federation since 1983.

Women's doubles

Mixed doubles BWF Grand Prix Gold tournament BWF & IBF Grand Prix tournament

BWF International Challenge/Series/Satellite Women's doubles BWF International Challenge tournament BWF International Series tournament

Record against selected opponents Mixed doubles results with Shintaro Ikeda against Super Series finalists, Worlds Semi-finalists, and Olympic quarterfinalists:

Zhang Nan & Zhao Yunlei 0–1 He Hanbin & Yu Yang Tao Jiaming & Tian Qing 0–3 Chen Hung-ling & Cheng Wen-hsing 0–3 Chris Adcock & Imogen Bankier 0–2 Anthony Clark & Donna Kellogg 0–2 Tontowi Ahmad & Liliyana Natsir 0–2 Nova Widianto & Liliyana Natsir 0–2 Lee Yong-dae & Ha Jung-eun 0–2 Robert Mateusiak & Nadieżda Zięba 2–0 Songphon Anugritayawon & Kunchala Voravichitchaikul 1–2 Sudket Prapakamol & Saralee Thungthongkam 1–1