| Reina Matsusaka | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 松坂 玲奈 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 23 October 2000 Kanagawa, Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Rhythmic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented |  Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years on national team | 2023- | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Reina Matsusaka (born 23 October 2000) is a Japanese rhythmic gymnast. [1] She is the 2024 all-around Asian bronze medalist.
Matsusaka began rhythmic gymnastics at age 3 because her mother was a coach at a gymnastics club, and she began to be coached by her mother in middle school. In 2019, she enrolled at Tokyo Women's Junior College of Physical Education. [2]
At the All-Japan Intercollegiate Gymnastics Championships in August 2019, Matsusaka won bronze with the hoop and was 5th individually. At the All-Japan Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships in October, she won silver with ball. [2]
Matsusaka debuted internationally several years later in 2023, when she competed in the Sofia International Tournament. She won bronze with ball and clubs and silver with hoop. [3] In the summer, she took part in the 2021 Summer World University Games in Chengdu and won bronze in the all-around behind Fanni Pigniczki and Khrystyna Pohranychna. She also won a bronze medal with clubs. [4] [5] In October she was selected for the Asian Games. There she finished 4th in teams with the other Japanese gymnasts and 7th in the all-around final. [6]
The following year, she began her season by competing in Athens at the Aphrodite Cup. She was 6th in the all-around and won bronze with hoop and ribbon. [7] [8] In April she competed in the World Cup in Baku, taking 15th place in the all-around, 17th with hoop, 13th with ball, 9th with clubs and 21st with ribbon. [9]
On May 3, she won the all-around bronze medal at the Asian Championships in Tashkent behind Elzhana Taniyeva and Takhmina Ikromova. [10] There was one Olympic berth available at the event, which went to Taniyeva. Although Matsusaka did not qualify for the 2024 Summer Olympics, she said of the event, "Previously, I was not in a position where I could aim for the Olympics, so this has been a very fruitful year. I'm happy I was able to make the Olympics my goal." [11] She also won silver medal in hoop and bronze medals in clubs and ribbon finals.
In 2025, she competed at Tashkent World Cup in April. She was 22nd in all-around and did not advance into apparatus finals. Her best result was with ribbon (12th place). In May, she took 4th place in all-around at the 2025 Asian Championships in Singapore. [12] She won silver in ball and clubs finals, bronze in ribbon and was 7th in hoop. [13]
| Year | Apparatus | Music Title |
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| 2025 | Hoop | Hakuryu&Kokuryu - II by Drum Tao |
| Ball | Main Titles / End Credits (From Beetlejuice Soundtrack) by Danny Elfman | |
| Clubs | Tokyo Calling by Atarashii Gakko! | |
| Ribbon | L'Arabesque Dance Toujours by Shiro Sagisu | |
| 2024 | Hoop | El Cumbanchero by Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra |
| Ball | Kaneda (From Akira Symphonic Suite) by Geinoh Yamashirogumi / Aomori Nebuta Festival (Dance Mix) by Blue Tokyo | |
| Clubs | unknown | |
| Ribbon | Theme from Lupin Ⅲ '89 / Missing Piece / Theme from Lupin Ⅲ 2021 by Yuji Ohno |
