Misaki Emura

Misaki Emura
Emura at Paris 2024 Summer Olympians and Paralympians Japan National Team parade event on November 30th, 2024
Personal information
Born (1998-11-20) 20 November 1998
Ōita, Japan
Height170 cm (5 ft 7 in)[1]
Weight56 kg (123 lb)
Fencing career
SportFencing
CountryJapan
HandRight-handed
FIE rankingcurrent ranking
Medal record
Women's sabre
Representing  Japan
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place2024 ParisTeam
World Championships
Gold medal – first place2022 CairoIndividual
Gold medal – first place2023 MilanIndividual
Bronze medal – third place2022 CairoTeam
Asian Games
Silver medal – second place2022 HangzhouTeam
Asian Fencing Championships
Gold medal – first place2024 Kuwait CityIndividual
Silver medal – second place2014 SuwonIndividual
Silver medal – second place2022 SeoulIndividual
Silver medal – second place2022 SeoulTeam
Bronze medal – third place2015 SingaporeIndividual
Bronze medal – third place2017 Hong KongIndividual
Bronze medal – third place2015 SingaporeTeam
Bronze medal – third place2016 WuxiTeam
Bronze medal – third place2017 Hong KongTeam
Bronze medal – third place2019 ChibaTeam
Bronze medal – third place2024 Kuwait CityTeam
Summer Universiade
Gold medal – first place2017 TaipeiTeam
Bronze medal – third place2017 TaipeiIndividual

Misaki Emura (Japanese: 江村美咲, born 20 November 1998) is a Japanese fencer. She is a two-time gold medalist in the women's sabre event at the World Fencing Championships (2022 and 2023). She also won the gold medal in her event at the 2024 Asian Fencing Championships held in Kuwait City, Kuwait.

Career

In 2014, she won the gold medal in the mixed team event at the Summer Youth Olympics held in Nanjing, China.[2] A month later, she competed in the women's individual sabre and women's team sabre events at the 2014 Asian Games held in Incheon, South Korea. In 2017, she competed in the women's sabre event at the World Fencing Championships held in Leipzig, Germany. She won one of the bronze medals in the women's individual sabre event at the 2017 Summer Universiade held in Taipei, Taiwan.[3] She also won the gold medal in the women's team sabre event.[3]

In 2021, she competed in the women's sabre event at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan. She also competed in the women's team sabre event.

She won the silver medal in both the women's individual and team sabre events at the 2022 Asian Fencing Championships held in Seoul, South Korea. She won the gold medal in the women's sabre event at the 2022 World Fencing Championships held in Cairo, Egypt.[4]

For the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, the Japanese Olympic Committee designated Emura and breakdancer Shigekix as the national delegation's flag bearers.[5] In the individual sabre event, Emura lost to South Korean fencer Choi Se-Bin in the round of 16.[6] In the team sabre event, Emura defeated France's Sara Balzer in the final bout to secure the bronze medal.[7]

References

  1. ↑ 江村美咲 - Fenc-ing Now - 日本フェンシング協会
  2. ↑ "Fencing Results Book" (PDF). 2014 Summer Youth Olympics. Archived (PDF) from the original on 7 November 2018. Retrieved 6 September 2020.
  3. 1 2 "Fencing Results Book" (PDF). 2017 Summer Universiade. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 May 2020. Retrieved 28 May 2020.
  4. ↑ Houston, Michael (20 July 2022). "Emura and Lefort victorious at Fencing World Championships". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
  5. ↑ "B-BOY SHIGEKIX, FENCING'S EMURA MISAKI NAMED JAPANESE FLAG-BEARERS FOR PARIS 2024". Olympics.com. 1 July 2024. Retrieved 13 July 2024.
  6. ↑ "Olympics: Misaki Emura a shock loser in sabre fencing last 16". Kyodo News. 30 July 2024. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
  7. ↑ "Olympics: Misaki Emura leads Japan to bronze in women's team sabre". Kyodo News. 3 August 2024. Retrieved 3 August 2024.
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