Michiko Fukushima Explained

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Michiko Fukushima
Birth Name:Tomoko Hasegawa
Fullname:Michiko Hasegawa-Fukushima
Birth Date:23 August 1963
Birth Place:Kumaishi, Hokkaidō, Japan
Weight:500NaN0
Sport:Shooting
Event:10 m air pistol (AP40)
25 m pistol (SP)
Club:Kunitomo Gunsmith
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is a Japanese sport shooter.[1] Fukushima had won a total of nine medals (four golds, three silver, and two bronze) for both air and sport pistol at the ISSF World Cup series. She also captured two medals (silver and bronze) in the same events at the 1986 Asian Games in Seoul, South Korea.[2]

Fukushima emerged as one of Japan's most prominent shooters in its Olympic history. She won the silver medal in the women's 25 metre pistol at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul by four points behind winner Nino Salukvadze of the Soviet Union (now representing Georgia), with a total score of 686 targets (587 in the preliminary rounds and 99 in the final).[3] Twelve years later, Fukushima achieved a fifth-place finish each in the air and sport pistol at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Beijing, accumulating scores of 483.7 and 684.8 points, respectively. She also competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, but she neither reached the final round, nor claimed an Olympic medal.

Twenty years after competing in her first Olympics, Fukushima qualified for her fourth Japanese team, as a 44-year-old, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by placing second in the sport pistol from the ISSF World Cup series in Sydney, Australia, with a record-breaking score of 785.7 points.[3] She placed thirty-eighth out of forty-four shooters in the women's 10 m air pistol by two points behind United States' Brenda Shinn from the final attempt, with a total score of 373 targets.[4] Three days later, Fukushima competed for her second event, 25 m pistol, where she was able to shoot 288 targets in the precision stage, and 293 in the rapid fire, for a total score of 581 points, finishing only in tenth place.[5]

Olympic results

Event1988200020042008
25 metre pistol Silver
587+99
5th
585+99.8
13th
577
10th
581
10 metre air pistol11th
379
5th
383+100.7
25th
378
38th
373

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Notes and References

  1. Michiko Hasegawa-Fukushima. https://web.archive.org/web/20200417212006/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ha/michiko-hasegawa-fukushima-1.html. dead. 17 April 2020. 20 January 2013.
  2. Web site: ISSF Profile – Michiko Fukushima. ISSF. 20 January 2013.
  3. News: Fukushima qualifies for Olympics. The Japan Times Online. 2 May 2007. 20 January 2013.
  4. Web site: Women's 10m Air Pistol Qualification . . 20 January 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120816052426/http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/shooting/resultsandschedules/rsc%3DSHW203901/index.html . 16 August 2012 .
  5. Web site: Women's 25m Pistol Qualification . . 20 January 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120816053058/http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/shooting/resultsandschedules/rsc%3DSHW204902/index.html . 16 August 2012 .