Chiharu Shida

Chiharu Shida was born on 29 April 1997 in Hachirogata, a small town in Akita Prefecture, and long competed for the Saishunkan Pharmaceutical corporate badminton team. Her record speaks plainly enough: a bronze medal in women's doubles at the 2024 Paris Olympics, and a place on the Japanese squad that won the 2020 Asia Team Championships. At 162 cm she is not a physically imposing doubles player, which makes the way she covers a court more impressive, not less — the reach she lacks has to be replaced by footwork and reading the rally a beat early. What draws me to doubles as a discipline is that individual brilliance cannot carry it. Every position you take is a response to three other people moving at once, and the partnership either breathes together or it loses. Getting to an Olympic podium that way requires a kind of patience I am not sure singles ever tests.

Name (English)

Chiharu Shida

Name (Japanese)

志田千陽

Reading

しだ ちはる

Born

April 29, 1997 (age 29)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Ox

Origin

Hachirōgata-machi, Akita Prefecture, Japan

Height

162 cm

Occupation

badminton player / Olympic competitor

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/_chiharushida_/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiharu%20Shida
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BF%97%E7%94%B0%E5%8D%83%E9%99%BD
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24701993

Tags

• Akita Prefecture
• badminton player
• Olympic competitor

Last updated

2026-08-07

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.