Misaki Yamaguchi

Misaki Yamaguchi
Personal information
Full name	Misaki Yamaguchi
National team	Japan
Born	20 January 1990 (age 31); Isahaya, Nagasaki, Japan
Height	1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight	58 kg (128 lb)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Freestyle
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Women's swimming
Representing Japan
Pan Pacific Championships
Summer Universiade

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.

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[]

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^ 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.
^ "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.
^ "Women's 4×200m Freestyle Final". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 21 August 2012. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
^ 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.
^ "Women's 4×100m Freestyle Heat 1". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 21 August 2012. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
^ "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.