is a Japanese trap shooter. She won a gold medal in the women's trap at the 2001 ISSF World Cup final in Doha, Qatar, achieved a fifth-place finish at the

2002 Asian Games The 2002 Asian Games ( ko, 2002년 아시아 경기대회/2002년 아시안 게임, Icheoni-nyeon Asia gyeonggi daehoe/Icheoni-nyeon Asian Geim), officially known as the XIV Asian Games ( ko, 제14회 아시아 경기대회/제14회 아시안 � ...

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, and represented her nation

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

in two editions of the Olympic Games (2000 and 2004). During her sporting career, Takeba trained full-time for the Ehime Clay Shooting Association under her personal coach Atsushi Otsuke Takeba made her official debut at the

2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 (Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from 1 ...

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, where she wound up to sixteenth in the inaugural women's trap with a score of 56 hits, narrowly escaping from the last spot in a field of seventeen shooters by four points. Shortly after the Games, Takeba rose to a sporting fame with a gold medal victory over Russian shooter and world record holder

Elena Tkach Yelena Anatolyevna Tkach (also ''Elena Tkach'', russian: Елена Анатольевна Ткач; born 19 May 1970 in Kopeysk, Russian SSR, Soviet Union) is a Russian sport shooter. Representing the former Soviet Union, Tkach won a silver meda ...

at the 2001 ISSF World Cup final with a remarkable score of 88 targets. At the

2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), ...

in Athens, Takeba qualified for her second Japanese squad, as a 38-year-old, in the women's trap by attaining a minimum score of 68 and securing an Olympic ticket from the 2002 ISSF World Cup series in Shanghai,

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. Improving her position from the previous Games, she amassed a total score of 59 hits out of 75 targets in the qualifying stage, but narrowly missed the final round by a single-point deficit with an eighth-place finish.

References

External links

Japanese Olympic Committee Bio

ISSF Profile
1966 births Living people Japanese female sport shooters Olympic shooters for Japan Shooters at the 2000 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 2004 Summer Olympics Asian Games medalists in shooting Shooters at the 1994 Asian Games Shooters at the 1998 Asian Games Shooters at the 2002 Asian Games Sportspeople from Kobe Asian Games bronze medalists for Japan Medalists at the 2002 Asian Games 20th-century Japanese women 21st-century Japanese women {{Japan-sportshooting-bio-stub