Misaki Yamaguchi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Misaki Yamaguchi

Olympic swimmer

Date of Birth: 20-Jan-1990

Place of Birth: Isahaya, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan

Profession: swimmer

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

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About Misaki Yamaguchi

  • Misaki Yamaguchi (?? ??, Yamaguchi Misaki, born January 20, 1990) is a Japanese swimmer, who specialized in freestyle events.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.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.

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