Meg Hemphill

Japanese track and field athlete
Meg Hemphill
Personal information
National teamJapan
Born (1996-05-23) May 23, 1996 (age 28)
Kyotanabe, Kyoto
OccupationAthlete
Height167 cm (5 ft 6 in)
Weight67 kg (148 lb)
Sport
SportHeptathlon

Meg Hemphill (born 23 May 1996, in Kyotanabe, Kyoto) is a Japanese track and field athlete. She is the Japanese national champion in 2017 and was placed second in the 2017 Asian Athletics Championships heptathlon.[1]

Hemphill was born in 1996.[1] Her parents are from America and Japan.[2]

She competed in the 2015 Asian Championships[2] and the 2017 Asian Championships. In the latter she won the silver medal behind Swapna Barman of India, and beat Purnima Hembram, also of India.[3]

She finished sixth at the 2018 Asian Games, and did not finish the competition at the 2019 Asian Championships.

References

  1. ^ a b "Profile of Meg HEMPHILL | All-Athletics.com". www.all-athletics.com. Retrieved 2017-07-18.
  2. ^ a b "On Her Way to Being the One and Only Number One: Meg Hemphill". japanrunningnews.blogspot.co.uk. Retrieved 2017-07-18.
  3. ^ Results, Odisha2017, The-Sports.org, Retrieved 18 July 2017
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Japan Championships in Athletics women's heptathlon and pentathlon champions
Pentathlon
  • 1934: Tomie Kakita
  • 1935: Hisako Tanaka
  • 1936: Kako Yada
  • 1941: Not held
  • 1942: Toyoko Yoshino
  • 1943–46: Not held
  • 1947: Rie Yamauchi
  • 1948: Toyoko Yoshino
  • 1949–50: Akiko Sumitomo
  • 1951: Yoko Sanpei
  • 1952–53: Atsuko Nanbu
  • 1955: Masuo Masami
  • 1956–57: Mikiko Tozaki
  • 1958–59: Akiko Fukuda
  • 1960–61: Michiko Fukushima
  • 1962: Helga Hoffmann (FRG)
  • 1963: Jutta Heine (FRG)
  • 1964: Miyuki Takahashi
  • 1965: Hiromi Watanabe
  • 1966: Michiko Okamoto
  • 1967: Keiko Nakano
  • 1968: Michiko Okamoto
  • 1969: Atsuko Uei
  • 1970: Mariko Yamanaka
  • 1971: Setsuko Hiramoto
  • 1972: Kyoko Shimizu
  • 1973: Kumi Kawada
  • 1974–76: Kyoko Shimizu
  • 1977–80: Tomoko Uchida
Heptathlon
  • 1981–82: Tomoko Uchida
  • 1983: Toshiko Hashimoto
  • 1984: Naomi Yagada
  • 1985: Kimiko Tatsumi
  • 1986–90: Minako Isogai
  • 1991: Rumiko Ubukata
  • 1992: Liliana Năstase (ROM)
  • 1993: Yukiko Ueno
  • 1994: Akiko Kurabe
  • 1995–96: Rumiko Ubukata
  • 1997: Keiko Kikukawa
  • 1998: Noriko Seiya
  • 1999: Kikukawa Keiko
  • 2000–01: Sayoko Sato
  • 2002–10: Yuki Nakata
  • 2011: Tomoi Kiriyama
  • 2012: Ryoka Akai
  • 2013–14: Tomoi Kiriyama
  • 2015–17: Meg Hemphill
  • 2018–21: Yuki Yamasaki
  • 2022: Meg Hemphill
  • 2023: Yuki Yamasaki
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