Reiko Shiota
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 [Badminton at the Badminton at the 2006 Asian Games – Women's doubles|2006 Asian Games|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 [Badminton at the 2012 Singapore Super Series|2012 Summer Olympics|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 the first round they beat the Danish pair Lena Frier Kristiansen and Kamilla Rytter Juhl in the rubber games, but were defeated by Du Jing and Yu Yang of China in the second round in straight games.
In 2009, she started to team up with Shintaro Ikeda from Unisys, and in May 2010, Shiota also joined the Unisys team. 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| Year | Venue | Partner | Opponent | Score | Result | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2007 | Putra Indoor Stadium, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |  Asian GamesWomen's doubles
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