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Meg Hemphill

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Meg Hemphill
Born23 May 1996
NationalityJapan
Occupationathlete
Known forHeptathlon
Height167 cm (5 ft 6 in)

Meg Hemphill (born 23 May 1996, in Kyotanabe, Kyoto) is a Japanese track and field athlete. She is the Japanese national champion in 2017 and was placed second in the 2017 Asian Athletics Championships heptathlon.[1]

Life

Hemphill was born in 1996.[1] Her parents are from America and Japan.[2]

She competed in the 2015 Asian Championships[2] and the 2017 Asian Championships. In the latter she won the silver medal behind Swapna Barman of India, and beat Purnima Hembram, also of India.[3]

She finished sixth at the 2018 Asian Games, and did not finish the competition at the 2019 Asian Championships.

References

  1. ^ a b "Profile of Meg HEMPHILL | All-Athletics.com". www.all-athletics.com. Retrieved 2017-07-18.
  2. ^ a b "On Her Way to Being the One and Only Number One: Meg Hemphill". japanrunningnews.blogspot.co.uk. Retrieved 2017-07-18.
  3. ^ Results, Odisha2017, The-Sports.org, Retrieved 18 July 2017