Megumi Inoue
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Megumi Inoue |
| Nationality |  Japan |
| Born | 27 April 1973 Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan |
| Height | Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1851: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value). |
| Weight | 59 kg (130 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Shooting |
| Event(s) | Trap (TR75) Double trap (DT120) |
| Club | Japanese Clay Target Shooting Association[1] |
| Coached by | Hiroshi Teranishi[1] |
Megumi Inoue (井上 恵 Inoue Megumi?, born April 27, 1973 in Sagamihara, Kanagawa) is a Japanese sport shooter.[2] She has produced a career tally of six medals, including two golds in women's double trap shooting at the Asian Championships in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and also finished fifth at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.[1] Inoue serves and trains full-time as a member of the Japanese Clay Target Shooting Association, under head coach Hiroshi Teranishi.[1]
Inoue came to prominence in the world shooting scene at the 2004 Asian Championships in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where she claimed the gold medal in the women's double trap final with a score of 138. Inoue's astonishing success and a minimum qualifying score of 106 led to her selection on the Japanese shooting team for her only Olympic debut.[3][4]
Six months after her illustrious victory from the Asian Championships, Inoue qualified for her first and only Japanese squad in the women's double trap at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.[3] She put up a stringent top-level effort with an unparalleled qualifying score of 106 to seal a third seed in the six-woman final, but fell out of the medal podium by a two-point margin that ended her up in fifth. Inoue's total score of 140 proved to be more rewarding than her previous career feat from the Asian Championships by just two targets.[5][6]
With the women's double trap being officially removed from the Olympic program, Inoue decided to focus solely on trap shooting. In 2005, she held off a charge from the rest of the field to set a new world-record score of 88 hits for the gold medal victory at the ISSF World Cup meet in Changwon, South Korea.[7]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
External links
- Megumi Inoue at the International Shooting Sport Federation
- Japanese Olympic Committee Bio (Japanese)
<templatestyles src="Asbox/styles.css"></templatestyles>
 |
This biographical article relating to sport shooting in Japan is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- No local image but image on Wikidata
- Articles containing Japanese-language text
- Articles with Japanese-language external links
- 1973 births
- Living people
- Japanese female sport shooters
- Olympic shooters of Japan
- Shooters at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Shooters at the 2014 Asian Games
- World record holders in shooting
- People from Sagamihara
- Sportspeople from Kanagawa Prefecture
- Japanese sport shooting biography stubs
- Japanese sportspeople stubs
