Hiromi Misaki

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]

Hiromi Misaki
Personal information
Full nameHiromi Misaki
Nationality Japan
Born (1976-08-13) 13 August 1976
Fukui, Japan
Height1.59 m (5 ft 2+1⁄2 in)
Weight61 kg (134 lb)
Sport
SportShooting
Event(s)10 m air rifle (AR40)
50 m rifle 3 positions (STR3X20)
ClubHitachi Team[1]
Coached byYoko Miki[1]

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. "ISSF Profile – Hiromi Misaki". ISSF. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
  2. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Hiromi Misaki". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
  3. 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. Archived from the original on 13 July 2015. 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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 July 2015. 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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