Miya Tachibana
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World Aquatics Championships
Tachibana has won eight medals at World Aquatics Championships. Her duet gold medal, won with Miho Takeda at the 2001 Fukuoka Championships, was the first gold medal for a Japanese synchronised swimming team in the history of the tournament.[3]
Asian Games
Tachibana won a gold medal in the duet event at the 2002 Busan Asian Games.
Olympics
She received five Olympic medals at the 1996, the 2000 and the 2004 Summer Olympics.[4] The silver medal from the 2000 Olympics was in the duet with Miho Takeda, and they also received a silver medal at the 2004 Olympics.[5]
After competition
Tachibana retired following the 2004 Athens Olympics. She moved on to a coaching role, working alongside Masayo Imura (known in Japan as “the mother of synchro”).[6]
During the summer of 2008, she was a synchronized swimming coach for the Santa Clara Aquamaids in Santa Clara, California.
After this, Tachibana coached at the Imura Synchro Club.[2]
Personal life
In February, 2012, Tachibana announced that she would be marrying an office worker living in Osaka.[2]
References
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- 1974 births
- Living people
- Olympic silver medalists for Japan
- Olympic bronze medalists for Japan
- Japanese synchronized swimmers
- Olympic synchronized swimmers for Japan
- Synchronized swimmers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Synchronized swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Synchronized swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Sportspeople from Ōtsu, Shiga
- Olympic medalists in synchronized swimming
- Asian Games gold medalists in artistic swimming
- Synchronized swimmers at the 1994 Asian Games
- Synchronized swimmers at the 1998 Asian Games
- Synchronized swimmers at the 2002 Asian Games
- World Aquatics Championships medalists in synchronised swimming
- Synchronized swimmers at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships
- Synchronized swimmers at the 1994 World Aquatics Championships
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Asian Games gold medalists for Japan
- Medalists at the 1994 Asian Games
- Medalists at the 1998 Asian Games
- Medalists at the 2002 Asian Games