EMURA Misaki

Youth Olympic Games

Year	Location	Sabre Individual
2014	Nanjing, CHN	4

World Championships

Year	Location	Sabre Individual	Sabre Team
2019	Budapest, HUN	100	9
2017	Leipzig, GER	6	4
2015	Moscow, RUS	91	13
2014	Kazan, RUS	72	12

Asian Championships

Year	Location	Sabre Individual	Sabre Team
2019	Tokyo, JPN	8	3
2017	Hong Kong, CHN	3	3

World Cup overview - Three best ranks per season since 2016/2017

Year	Sabre Individual	Sabre Team
2020/2021	-	1 x 6th
2019/2020	1 x 3rd, 1 x 5th	2 x 13th, 1 x 17th
2018/2019	1 x 16th, 1 x 21st, 1 x 30th	1 x 4th, 1 x 5th, 1 x 6th
2017/2018	1 x 2nd, 1 x 11th, 1 x 36th	1 x 9th, 1 x 11th, 1 x 14th
2016/2017	1 x 16th, 1 x 21st, 1 x 46th	1 x 4th, 1 x 7th, 1 x 8th

Grand Prix overview - Three best ranks per season since 2016/2017

Year	Sabre Individual
2019/2020	1 x 34th
2018/2019	1 x 50th, 1 x 60th
2017/2018	1 x 10th, 1 x 18th, 1 x 33rd
2016/2017	1 x 42nd, 1 x 43rd, 1 x 64th

World Cup & Grand Prix - Ten best performances since 2016/2017

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location
2	2017/2018	Sabre Individual	World Cup	Baltimore, MD, USA
3	2019/2020	Sabre Individual	World Cup	Athens, GRE
4	2018/2019	Sabre Team	World Cup	Tunis, TUN
4	2016/2017	Sabre Team	World Cup	Tunis, TUN
5	2019/2020	Sabre Individual	World Cup	Salt Lake City, UT, USA
5	2018/2019	Sabre Team	World Cup	Athens, GRE
6	2020/2021	Sabre Team	World Cup	Budapest, HUN
6	2018/2019	Sabre Team	World Cup	Sint-Niklaas, BEL
7	2016/2017	Sabre Team	World Cup	New York, NY, USA
8	2016/2017	Sabre Team	World Cup	Orleans, FRA

World Junior Championships

Year	Location	Sabre Individual	Sabre Team
2018	Verona, ITA	6	5
2017	Plovdiv, BUL	5	10

Shopping. (Instagram profile, 20 Mar 2021, 26 Dec 2020, 22 Dec 2020)

Athlete

Law - Chuo University, Hachioji, JPN

Japanese, Korean

Tachihi Holdings [Japan]

Yusuke Aoki [national], JPN; Lee Wook Jae [national], KOR

Right (fie.org, 30 Jun 2015)

Her father Koji Emura has represented Japan in fencing, and competed in foil at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul. He also served as head coach of the Japanese fencing team at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. Her mother Takae Emura also competed in epee at the 1997 World Championships in Cape Town, South Africa. Her older brother Syotaro has competed in fencing at national level and her younger brother Ryohei has represented Japan in the sport at junior international level. (SportsDeskOnline, 05 May 2021; sanspo.com, 26 Apr 2021; nikkansports.com, 09 Apr 2021, 03 Jun 2018; eurofencing.info, 01 Jan 2021; fencing-jpn.jp, 01 Oct 2020; hochi.co.jp, 24 Sep 2014)

2014 for Japan (fie.org, 30 Jun 2015)

She began fencing at age nine. (hochi.co.jp, 24 Sep 2014)

She was encouraged to try the sport by her parents, and went to a fencing class where her father coached. She originally took up foil in grade three of primary school, but she competed in the sabre event at a competition where she wanted to win its prize which was a jigsaw puzzle. She then switched to sabre before entering middle school. (sanspo.com, 26 Apr 2021; fencingfan.net, 01 Nov 2015)

To win gold at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (nikkansports.com, 09 Apr 2021)

"The attraction of fencing lies in the spectacle offered. Looking for perfectly precise movements and winning with impeccable technique is exhilarating." (shinken-oita.jp, 05 Apr 2021)

She was given the 2014 Sports Prize for Encouragement in Tokyo, Japan. (tokyo.jp, 25 Nov 2014)