Karin Miyawaki

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| name = Karin Miyawaki

| image = TeamJapan-Paris2024-Nihonbashi-Event---2024-11-30_0170.jpg

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| caption = Karin Miwaki at Paris 2024 Summer Olympians and Paralympians Japan National Team parade event on November 30th, 2024

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1997|2|4}}

| birth_place = Tokyo, Japan

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| country = Japan

| weapon = Foil

| hand = Right-handed

| fieranking = [https://fie.org/athletes/21767 current ranking]

| show-medals = yes

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{{Nihongo|Karin Miyawaki|宮脇花綸|Miyawaki Karin|born 4 February 1997}}{{Cite web|title=Fencing Results Book|url=http://www.ocagames.com/orb/files/4/78/AG2018_OfficialResultBook_Fencing_v1.0.pdf|website=2018 Asian Games|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200508184225/http://www.ocagames.com/orb/files/4/78/AG2018_OfficialResultBook_Fencing_v1.0.pdf|archive-date=8 May 2020|access-date=8 May 2020}} is a Japanese fencer. She has won medals at several editions of the Asian Fencing Championships and, in 2014, she won one of the bronze medals in the women's team foil event at the 2014 Asian Games held in Incheon, South Korea.

Career

In 2014, she won the silver medal in the girl's foil event at the Summer Youth Olympics held in Nanjing, China.{{Cite web|title=Fencing Results Book|url=http://mat1.gtimg.com/nanjing2014/resultsbook/Results_Book_FE_V1.0.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181107224824/http://mat1.gtimg.com/nanjing2014/resultsbook/Results_Book_FE_V1.0.pdf|archive-date=7 November 2018|access-date=6 September 2020|website=2014 Summer Youth Olympics}} She also won the gold medal in the mixed team event. In 2018, she was eliminated in her first match in the women's foil event at the World Fencing Championships held in Wuxi, China. In the same year, she won the gold medal in the women's team foil event at the 2018 Asian Games held in Indonesia. She also competed in the women's individual foil event without winning a medal.

She competed at the 2022 World Fencing Championships held in Cairo, Egypt. At the 2024 Summer Olympics, Miyawaki won the bronze medal in the women's team foil event, helping Japan earn its first Olympic medal in the event.{{cite web|url=https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2024/08/dbe2e2bdc2d3-olympics-japan-wins-1st-ever-womens-team-foil-medal-in-paris.html|title=Olympics: Japan wins 1st ever women's team foil medal in Paris|publisher=Kyodo News|date=2 August 2024|accessdate=4 August 2024}}

Personal life

Miyawaki was interested in sports from a young age; her sister took up fencing in elementary school and Miyawaki would go with her to practice. She attended Keio Girls' High School (reportedly because "[she] wanted to go to a high school that would let [her] fence instead of making [her] study for university examinations". She subsequently majored in economics at Keio University, where she was a member of the Keio Fencing Club.{{Cite web|title=En Garde! The Strength and Spirit of Keio Fencing: Keio University|url=https://www.keio.ac.jp/en/keio-times/features/2017/8/|access-date=22 December 2020|website=www.keio.ac.jp|language=en}}