Miho Miyahara

Miyahara won the silver medal in the women's 50 kg event at the 2016 World Karate Championships held in Linz, Austria.^[6][7] In the final, she lost against Alexandra Recchia of France.^[6] In 2017, Miyahara repeated this result with the silver medal in the women's kumite 50 kg event at the World Games in Wrocław, Poland.^[8][9] The gold medal also went to Alexandra Recchia.^[8]

At the 2018 Asian Karate Championships held in Amman, Jordan, Miyahara won the gold medal in the women's kumite 50 kg event.^[2] A few days later, she won the gold medal in the women's kumite 50 kg event at the 2018 World University Karate Championships held in Kobe, Japan.^[10] A month later, she won one of the bronze medals in the women's kumite 50 kg event at the 2018 Asian Games held in Jakarta, Indonesia.^[1]

At the 2019 Asian Karate Championships held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Miyahara won the silver medal in the women's kumite 50 kg event.^[11][12] In the final, she lost against Bakhriniso Babaeva of Uzbekistan.^[12]

In August 2021, at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, Miyahara competed in the women's 55 kg event.^[5] In November 2021, she won the gold medal in the women's 50 kg event at the World Karate Championships held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.^[13][14] She defeated Shara Hubrich of Germany in her gold medal match.^[14]

Miyahara won the bronze medal in the women's 50 kg event at the 2022 World Games held in Birmingham, United States.^[15] She defeated Gu Shiau-shuang of Chinese Taipei in her bronze medal match.^[15] In 2023, she lost her bronze medal match in the women's 50 kg event at the 2022 Asian Games held in Hangzhou, China.