Kyohei Yamashita

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Kyohei Yamashita (山下 恭平, Yamashita Kyōhei; born 12 October 1998) is a Japanese badminton player from Okayama Prefecture who competes in men’s and mixed doubles. A member of the Japanese national team, he plays for the NTT East team and has reached career-high world rankings of No. 13 in mixed doubles and No. 17 in men’s doubles. Yamashita won a bronze medal in mixed doubles at the 2021 World Championships and two Super 300 titles: his maiden BWF World Tour title at the 2026 U.S. Open and the 2026 Canada Open. He has represented Japan in team competitions, winning bronze medals at the 2022 Asian Games and the Sudirman Cup in 2023 and 2025.

In 2016, Yamashita competed at junior international level, partnering Naoki Yamazawa in boys’ doubles. The pair finished as runners-up at the Dutch Junior before winning the German Junior; they faced Hiroki Okamura and Masayuki Onodera in both finals. That year, Yamashita also represented Japan at the Asian Junior Championships in Bangkok, where the team won a bronze medal.

Yamashita and Naru Shinoya began competing together in mixed doubles on the BWF World Tour. In 2019, they…