Hiromi Misaki

Hiromi Misaki
Personal information
Full name Hiromi Misaki
Nationality  Japan
Born (1976-08-13) 13 August 1976
Fukui, Japan
Height 1.59 m (5 ft 2 1⁄2 in)
Weight 61 kg (134 lb)
Sport
Sport Shooting
Event(s) 10 m air rifle (AR40)
50 m rifle 3 positions (STR3X20)
Club Hitachi Team[1]
Coached by Yoko Miki[1]

Hiromi Misaki (三崎 宏美 Misaki Hiromi, born August 13, 1976 in Fukui) is a Japanese sport shooter.[2] She has been selected to compete for Japan in rifle shooting at two Olympics (2000 and 2004), and has attained a total of five medals in a major international competition, spanning the ISSF World Cup series.[1] Misaki trains full-time for Hitachi Shooting Team under her longtime coach Yoko Miki.[1][3]

Misaki's Olympic debut came at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. There, she finished in a five-way tie for fifteenth position in the 10 m air rifle with a qualifying score of 392, just two points below the Olympic final cutoff.[4][5] Misaki also competed in the 50 m rifle 3 positions, but slumped to a distant thirty-eighth in a 42-shooter field with 558 points, after she flubbed few shots in the kneeling series that contributed to her descent in the leaderboard.[6]

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Misaki qualified for her second Japanese team in rifle shooting.[3] She managed to get a minimum qualifying standard of 397 to secure an Olympic berth for Japan in air rifle, following her top finish at the ISSF World Cup meet in Changwon, South Korea a year earlier.[7][8] In the 10 m air rifle, held on the first day of the Games, Misaki fired a modest 392 out of a possible 400 to force in a massive draw with six others for twenty-second place.[9] Nearly a week later, in the 50 m rifle 3 positions, Misaki marked a brilliant 195 in prone, 185 in standing, and 189 in the kneeling series to accumulate a total score of 569 points in the qualifying round, closing her out of the final to twenty-fourth place.[10]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "ISSF Profile – Hiromi Misaki". ISSF. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
  2. ↑ "Hiromi Misaki". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
  3. 1 2 三崎の五輪代表決定的　ライフル射撃選考会 [Hiromi Misaki has been selected to compete in rifle shooting] (in Japanese). 47 News. 7 April 2004. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
  4. ↑ "Sydney 2000: Shooting – Women's 10m Air Rifle" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. pp. 78–80. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
  5. ↑ "Nancy Johnson wins first gold of Sydney Games". Canoe.ca. 16 September 2000. Retrieved 13 July 2015.
  6. ↑ "Sydney 2000: Shooting – Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. pp. 81–86. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
  7. ↑ "Shooting 2004 Olympic Qualification" (PDF). Majority Sports. p. 10. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  8. ↑ "Martina Prekel verfehlt knapp das Luftgewehr-Finale" [Martina Prekel missed the air rifle final] (in German). Deutscher Schützenbund. 3 July 2003. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
  9. ↑ "Shooting: Women's 10m Air Rifle Prelims". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  10. ↑ "Shooting: Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions Prelims". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.

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