Misaki Yamaguchi
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 Japan | ||||||||||||||||||
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20 January 1990 Isahaya, Nagasaki, Japan | ||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 58 kg (128 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle | ||||||||||||||||||
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Misaki Yamaguchi (山口 美咲 Yamaguchi Misaki, born January 20, 1990 in Isahaya, Nagasaki) is a Japanese swimmer, who specialized in freestyle events.[1] She set a Japanese record of 54.43 in the 100 m freestyle at the 2009 Japan National Sports Festival in Nagaoka, Niigata.[2] Yamaguchi is a student at Kinki University in Fukuoka.
Yamaguchi qualified as a member of the Japanese team for the 4×200 m freestyle relay at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by placing fourth in the same distance from the Olympic trials in Tokyo (2:01.64).[3] Teaming with Haruka Ueda, Maki Mita, and Emi Takanabe, Yamaguchi swam the second leg with a split of 1:58.51, but the Japanese team settled for seventh place in 7:57.56.[4][5] Yamaguchi also competed in the 4×100 m freestyle relay, along with Ueda, Mita, and Asami Kitagawa, but missed out the final by 0.08 of a second in a preliminary time of 3:39.25.[6]
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.[7]
References
- ↑ "Misaki Yamaguchi". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
- ↑ Mochizuki, Hideki (12 September 2009). "Japan National Sports Festival: Misaki Yamaguchi Sets Japanese Record, Ryosuke Irie Downs Junya Koga". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
- ↑ "Japanese Olympic Trials: Add Hanae Itoh to Sub-Minute 100 Back Club". Swimming World Magazine. 19 April 2008. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
- ↑ "Women's 4×200m Freestyle Final". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
- ↑ Lohn, John (13 August 2008). "Olympics, Swimming: Australia Smashes Women's 800 Free Relay World Record". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 7 April 2013.
- ↑ "Women's 4×100m Freestyle Heat 1". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
- ↑ "World University Games, Swimming: Several National Records Fall; Ryosuke Irie Shines". Swimming World Magazine. 5 July 2009. Retrieved 7 April 2013.