Misaki Yamaguchi

Misaki Yamaguchi (山口 美咲, Yamaguchi Misaki, born January 20, 1990) 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.

Misaki Yamaguchi
Personal information
Full nameMisaki Yamaguchi
National team Japan
Born (1990-01-20) 20 January 1990
Isahaya, Nagasaki, Japan
Height1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight58 kg (128 lb)
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesFreestyle
Medal record
Women's swimming
Representing Japan
Pan Pacific Championships
2014 Gold Coast4×100 m freestyle
Summer Universiade
2009 Belgrade4×100 m freestyle

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]

References
  1. "Misaki Yamaguchi". Beijing 2008. Archived from the original on 10 September 2008. Retrieved 16 January 2016.
  2. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Misaki Yamaguchi". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
  3. Mochizuki, Hideki (12 September 2009). "Japan National Sports Festival: Misaki Yamaguchi Sets Japanese Record, Ryosuke Irie Downs Junya Koga". Swimming World Magazine. Archived from the original on 3 February 2013. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
  4. "Japanese Olympic Trials: Add Hanae Itoh to Sub-Minute 100 Back Club". Swimming World Magazine. 19 April 2008. Archived from the original on 1 January 2011. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
  5. "Women's 4×200m Freestyle Final". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 21 August 2012. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
  6. Lohn, John (13 August 2008). "Olympics, Swimming: Australia Smashes Women's 800 Free Relay World Record". Swimming World Magazine. Archived from the original on 24 June 2013. Retrieved 7 April 2013.
  7. "Women's 4×100m Freestyle Heat 1". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 21 August 2012. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
  8. "World University Games, Swimming: Several National Records Fall; Ryosuke Irie Shines". Swimming World Magazine. 5 July 2009. Archived from the original on 13 May 2013. Retrieved 7 April 2013.


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