Misaki Yamaguchi Explained

Misaki Yamaguchi
Full Name:Misaki Yamaguchi
Strokes:Freestyle
Birth Date:20 January 1990
Birth Place:Isahaya, Nagasaki, Japan
Height:1.65 m
Weight:58 kg
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is a Japanese swimmer, who specialized in freestyle events.[1] [2] She represented her nation Japan at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and has won a career total of two medals (one silver and one bronze) in a major international competition, spanning the Summer Universiade and the Pan Pacific Championships. She set a Japanese record of 54.43 in the 100 m freestyle at the 2009 Japan National Sports Festival in Nagaoka, Niigata.[3] Yamaguchi is a student at Kinki University in Fukuoka.

Yamaguchi competed as an eighteen-year-old and a member of the Japanese team in two freestyle relay events at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Despite missing out the individual spot in the 200 m freestyle, she managed to place fourth at the Olympic trials in Tokyo (2:01.64) to earn an outright selection on the relay squad.[4] Teaming with Haruka Ueda, Maki Mita, and Emi Takanabe in the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay final, Yamaguchi swam the second leg with a split of 1:58.51, but the Japanese team had to settle for seventh place in 7:57.56.[5] [6] Yamaguchi also participated in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay, along with Ueda, Mita, and Asami Kitagawa, but missed out the top 8 final by 0.08 of a second in a prelims time of 3:39.25.[7]

In 2009, Yamaguchi earned a silver medal for the Japanese team in the 400 m freestyle relay at the Summer Universiade in Belgrade, Serbia with a final time of 3:42.60.[8]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Misaki Yamaguchi . . 16 January 2016 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080910194331/http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/BIO/Athlete/8/239948.shtml . 10 September 2008 .
  2. Misaki Yamaguchi. https://web.archive.org/web/20200417212136/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ya/misaki-yamaguchi-1.html. dead. 17 April 2020. 4 December 2012.
  3. News: Mochizuki . Hideki . Japan National Sports Festival: Misaki Yamaguchi Sets Japanese Record, Ryosuke Irie Downs Junya Koga . https://archive.today/20130203070402/http://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/lane9/news/22179.asp . dead . 3 February 2013 . . 12 September 2009 . 4 December 2012 .
  4. News: Japanese Olympic Trials: Add Hanae Itoh to Sub-Minute 100 Back Club . . 19 April 2008 . 4 December 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110101205650/http://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/lane9/news/17875.asp . 1 January 2011 .
  5. Web site: Women's 4×200m Freestyle Final . . . 4 December 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120821063119/http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/swimming/resultsandschedules/rsc%3DSWW412100/index.html . 21 August 2012 .
  6. News: Lohn . John . Olympics, Swimming: Australia Smashes Women's 800 Free Relay World Record . . 13 August 2008 . 7 April 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130624053354/http://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/lane9/news/18815.asp . 24 June 2013 .
  7. Web site: Women's 4×100m Freestyle Heat 1 . . . 4 December 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120821063010/http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/swimming/resultsandschedules/rsc%3DSWW411900/index.html . 21 August 2012 .
  8. News: World University Games, Swimming: Several National Records Fall; Ryosuke Irie Shines . . 5 July 2009 . 7 April 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130513113237/http://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/lane9/news/21576.asp . 13 May 2013 .

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