Meg Hemphill
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| name = Megumi Hemphill
| image = Meg Hemphill of Japan at Odisha 2017 (cropped).jpg
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| caption = in Odisha in 2017
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| birth_date = {{birth-date and age|23 May 1996}}
| birth_place = Kyotanabe, Kyoto
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| sport = Heptathlon
| education = Chuo University
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| occupation = Athlete
| height = 167 cm
| weight = 67 kg
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| national_team = Japan
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Megumi Hemphill known as Megu Hemphill and Meg Hemphill (born 23 May 1996, in Kyotanabe, Kyoto) is a Japanese track and field athlete. She was the Japanese national champion in 2017 and she was placed second in the 2017 Asian Athletics Championships heptathlon.
Life
Hemphill was born in 1996.{{Cite web|url=http://www.all-athletics.com/node/825901|title=Profile of Meg HEMPHILL {{!}} All-Athletics.com|website=www.all-athletics.com|language=en-us|access-date=2017-07-18}} Her parents, Chie and Scott, are from America and Japan and they called her "Megu". When she was eighteen she scored a record heptathlon (junior) score of 5519 while competing for Kyoto Bunkyo High School. She also won the 100 metres for them and she was the anchor in ther relay team.{{Cite web|url=http://japanrunningnews.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/on-her-way-to-being-one-and-only-number.html|title=On Her Way to Being the One and Only Number One: Meg Hemphill|website=japanrunningnews.blogspot.co.uk|access-date=2017-07-18}}
She became a student at Chuo University and in her first year she represented them at the heptathlon event in the 84th Japan Students Interscholastic Track and Field Tournament in Osaka. She won the event in September 2015.{{Cite web |title=Hemphill wins heptathlon {{!}} |url=https://www.chuo-u.ac.jp/english/news/2015/09/59151/ |access-date=2024-09-23 |website=中央大学 |language=en}}
She competed in the 2015 Asian Championships and she became the Japanese under 20 record holder at the heptathlon with a combined score of 5678.{{Cite web |title=七種競技日本記録（陸上U20女子 日本記録） – 日本記録 {{!}} 日本記録認定協会（公式） |url=https://japaneserecords.org/japanese-records/13875/ |access-date=2024-09-23 |website=japaneserecords.org}} In the 2017 Asian Championships she won the silver medal behind Swapna Barman of India, and beat Purnima Hembram, also of India.[http://www.the-sports.org/athletics-asian-championships-results-2017-women-epf80275.html#346849 Results], Odisha2017, The-Sports.org, Retrieved 18 July 2017 In the 2017 heptathlon rankings for all of Asia, Swapna was second to the Chinese athlete Wang Qingling and Hemphill was third. She was 0.2 of a second behind the leading athlete at 100 metres{{Cite web |title=2017 Asian Rankings |url=https://www.athletics.org.tw/Upload/Web_Page/%E8%A8%98%E9%8C%84/Rankings-E-Book.pdf |access-date=23 September 2024 |website=Athletics.org}}
She finished sixth at the 2018 Asian Games, and did not finish the competition at the 2019 Asian Championships.
She achieved a personal best time of 13.3 seconds for the 100 Metres Hurdles at the Prefectural Stadium in Fukui in 2020.{{Cite web |title=Meg HEMPHILL {{!}} Profile {{!}} World Athletics |url=https://worldathletics.org/athletes/japan/meg-hemphill-14594788 |access-date=2024-09-23 |website=worldathletics.org}}
References
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{{Japan Championships in Athletics women's combined events champions}}
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Category:People from Kyōtanabe, Kyoto
Category:Athletes from Kyoto Prefecture
Category:People from Tanabe, Wakayama
Category:Athletes from Wakayama Prefecture
Category:Japanese heptathletes
Category:Asian Games athletes for Japan
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 2018 Asian Games
Category:Japan Championships in Athletics winners
Category:Japanese people of American descent