Lisa Misipeka
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Full name | Lisa Vasa Misipeka | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | American Samoa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | January 3, 1975 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 110 kg (243 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Updated on 28 April 2013 |
Lisa Vasa Misipeka (born January 3, 1975) is an American Samoan athlete who specialises in the hammer throw. She was the first woman to represent American Samoa at the Olympics.[1]
She won the bronze medal at the 1999 World Championships in Athletics. First place was 75.20m, second place 72.56m, and 9m behind first and 6.5m behind second was Misipeka in third with 66.06m. It was the first ever international medal for American Samoa, and the greatest difference in distance between the first three medal places. The flag bearer for American Samoa at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece where she did not record a distance in the qualifying round of the women's hammer due to a knee injury and therefore did not advance to the final.
Achievements
[edit]Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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Representing American Samoa | |||||
1997 | South Pacific Mini Games | Pago Pago, American Samoa | 1st | Shot put | 14.37 m |
2nd | Discus throw | 43.32 m | |||
1st | Hammer throw | 58.20 m | |||
1999 | South Pacific Games | Santa Rita, Guam | 1st | Shot put | 15.13 m GR |
1st | Discus throw | 46.00 m | |||
1st | Hammer throw | 63.39 m GR | |||
World Championships | Seville, Spain | 3rd | Hammer throw | 66.06 m | |
2000 | Olympic Games | Sydney, Australia | 14th | Hammer throw | 61.74 m |
2001 | World Championships | Edmonton, Canada | 20th | Hammer throw | 63.34 m |
2003 | World Championships | Paris, France | 21st | Hammer throw | 64.42 m |
2004 | Olympic Games | Athens, Greece | — | Hammer throw | NM |
References
[edit]- ^ "First female competitors at the Olympics by country". Olympedia. Retrieved 14 June 2020.
External links
[edit]- Lisa Misipeka at World Athletics
- Lisa Misipeka at Olympedia
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Lisa Misipeka". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18.
Categories:
- 1975 births
- Living people
- American sportspeople of Samoan descent
- American Samoan hammer throwers
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Olympic track and field athletes for American Samoa
- South Carolina Gamecocks women's track and field athletes
- University of South Carolina alumni
- World Athletics Championships medalists
- American Samoan female track and field athletes
- Female hammer throwers
- World Athletics Championships athletes for American Samoa
- Australian Athletics Championships winners
- Pacific Games gold medalists
- Pacific Games medalists in athletics
- NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships winners
- NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships winners
- 21st-century American sportswomen
- Oceanian athletics biography stubs
- American Samoan sportspeople stubs