Mizuho Katayama

Mizuho Katayama

Personal information
Born	(1969-11-27) 27 November 1969 (age 55) Izumiōtsu, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Height	1.58 m (5 ft 2 in)
Weight	50 kg (110 lb)
Korean name
Hangul	김미진수
Hanja	金美津穗[1]
Revised Romanization	Gim Mijinsu
McCune–Reischauer	Kim Mijinsu
Japanese name
Kanji	片山 満津芳 (earlier 片山 美津穂)
Romanization	Katayama Mizuho
Alternative Japanese name
Kanji	高智 美津穂
Romanization	Kōchi Mizuho
Sport
Sport	Synchronized swimming
Updated on 16 November 2014

Mizuho Katayama (片山 満津芳, born 27 November 1969) is a synchronized swimming coach in Japan. Born to a Korean family in Japan, she participated in Japanese domestic synchronized swimming competitions under the name Mizuho Kōchi, and represented South Korea in international competitions under the name Kim Mijinsu, most notably in the women's solo and women's duet competitions at the 1988 Summer Olympics. After her retirement from the South Korean national team, she married and began using her current name.

Early life

Katayama is a third-generation Korean resident of Japan and was born in Izumiōtsu, Osaka Prefecture.[2][3] Her only given name since birth has been the Japanese given name Mizuho; her legal birth surname was Kim, while she used the Japanese name Mizuho Kōchi as a pass name.[2] She began participating in synchronized swimming from her fifth year of elementary school, and was trained at the Hamadera Swimming School [ja] in Sakai, where her coach was Akiko Motoyoshi, the younger sister of Japanese Olympic bronze medallist Miwako Motoyoshi.[2][4] She went on to attend Hagoromo Academy High School [ja] in Takaishi.[5] She entered the Osaka University of Health and Sport Sciences in 1987.[4]

Career

She competed in Japanese national championships, but could not represent Japan in international competition because she was not a Japanese citizen.[2] In December 1987, she was invited by the Korea Swimming Federation [ko], South Korea's official aquatics governing body, to be part of the first delegation to represent South Korea in synchronized swimming at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.[5][6] She competed under the name Kim Mijinsu,[7][8] where "Mijinsu" is the Korean pronunciation of the characters she used at the time for her given name Mizuho.[5] She came in 27th place in the women's solo with a score of 86.350, and in 10th place in the women's duet competitions with a score of 89.500.[7] She again represented South Korea in the duet routine at the 1991 World Aquatics Championships with partner Choe Jeong-yun, and placed thirteenth.[9] She placed first in the duet routine at the 1991 Japan Synchro Challenge Cup [ja] with partner Chiaki Yamamura (山村千晶).[10]

After her wedding in 1993 to a Japanese man from Hiroshima, she used the married name Mizuho Katayama.[11][12] She moved to Hiroshima, and became an instructor at the Hiroshima Synchronized Swimming Club, a board member of the Hiroshima Prefectural Swimming Federation, and a synchronized swimming referee for the National Sports Festival of Japan.[13] She was the coach for the Japanese team at the 2003 and 2004 Swiss Open Synchronized Swimming organized by Limmat-Nixen Zürich [de].[14] She was later the head coach for Japan's junior synchronized swimming team at the Asia Swimming Federation's 2007 Asian Age Group Championships in Jakarta, Indonesia, and the 2008 FINA World Junior Synchronised Swimming Championships in Saint Petersburg, Russia.[15][16][17] She was promoted to head coach of Japan's national synchronized swimming team for the 2009 World Aquatics Championships in Rome, Italy.[18][19] At the synchronized swimming school Artistic Swimming Hiroshima (アーティスティックスイミング広島), she was the coach of future Olympian Moe Higa [ja] from 2016 to 2022.[20][21]

References

1. 河秀卿-金美津穗의 듀엣 熱演 [Ha Su-gyeong and Kim Mijinsu's enthusiastic duet performance]. The Dong-A Ilbo. 28 September 1988. p. 6. Retrieved 7 September 2017.
2. 『現代韓国人名錄』 [Biographical Dictionary of Modern South Koreans]. 日外アソシエーツ [Nichigai Associates]. p. 137. OCLC 31677910.
3. 「ハマスイ賛歌・卒業生からのエール シンクロ指導者　片山満津芳さん＝７４回卒、泉大津市出身」 [Paeans and voices of support for the Hamadera Swimming School from alumni: synchronized swimming coach Ms. Mizuho Katayama, 74th graduating class, a native of Izumiōtsu]. Mainichi Shimbun. 5 July 2017. Retrieved 17 September 2017.
4. 물과 플로어의 요정 88올림픽에 첫 출전 [An invitation to the water dance floor; first time participating, at the 1988 Olympics]. JoongAng Ilbo. 14 March 1988. Retrieved 7 September 2017.
5. 木村公一 [Kimura Kōichi] (1988). 「私にとって祖国とは･･････ 在日韓国人･金美津穂のソウル五輪」 ['For me, the fatherland is ...'; Zainichi Korean Mizuho Kim's Seoul Olympics]. Gekkan Gendai [ja]. Vol. 22, no. 10. pp. 180–188. JPNO 00007306.
6. 「（ソウルに集う）シンクロ 金美津穂」 [Gathering in Seoul: Mizuho Kim, synchronized swimming]. Asahi Shimbun. 29 September 1988.
7. Lee, Kyong-hee, ed. (1989). "Swimming". Official Report: Games of the XXIVth Olympiad, Seoul 1988. Vol. v. 2. Seoul: Olympic Organizing Committee. p. 589. OCLC 31167711.
8. "Synchronized Swimming". Swimming World and Junior Swimmer. Vol. 29, no. 7–12. 1988. p. 79 – via Google Books.
9. 최정윤-김미진수조 세계수중발레 13위 [Choe Jeong-yun, Kim Mijinsu thirteenth in world underwater ballet]. JoongAng Ilbo. 7 January 1991. Retrieved 7 September 2017.
10. 「日本シンクロチャレンジカップ 歴代優勝者」 [Past Winners of the Japan Synchro Challenge Cup] (PDF). Japan Swimming Federation. Retrieved 7 September 2017.
11. 「（スポーツひと半世紀）変化する民族意識 在日韓国人の五輪：5」 [Half a century of sportspeople — changing ethnic consciousness, Zainichi Koreans at the Olympics: 5]. The Asahi Shimbun. 11 February 1995.
12. 『100人の在日コリアン』 [100 Zainichi Koreans]. 良知会 [Ryōchikai]. 1997. ISBN 9784883201358.
13. 「平成１３年度広島県教育賞及び広島県教育奨励賞について」 [2001 Hiroshima Prefectural Education Awards and Hiroshima Prefectural Education Honorable Mentions]. Education Department, Hiroshima Prefecture. 2002. Retrieved 18 September 2017.
14. 「スイスオープン」 [Swiss Open]. Japan Swimming Federation. 2004. Retrieved 18 September 2017.
15. 『事業実施報告書 平成19年度』 [Annual Report, 2007] (PDF). Japan Swimming Federation. May 2008. p. 30. Retrieved 17 September 2017.
16. 「世界ジュニア選手権 日本代表」 [Japanese delegation to the World Junior Championships]. Japan Swimming Federation. 2008. Retrieved 17 September 2017.
17. 「第13回世界水泳選手権大会 日本代表」 [Japanese delegation to the 13th World Aquatics Championships]. Japan Swimming Federation. 2009. Retrieved 17 September 2017.
18. 「シンクロ日本 ヘッドコーチに片山満津芳氏」 [Ms. Mizuho Katayama to be Japan synchronised swimming head coach]. Sports Nippon. 12 May 2009. Retrieved 17 September 2017.
19. 「メダル遠のくシンクロ、ＦＣ決勝も５位に終わる 水泳世界選手権　第６日」 [Far from medals, finished fifth in synchronized swimming free combination finals; World Aquatics Championships day six]. Yahoo Japan Sports. 22 July 2009. Retrieved 18 September 2017.
20. アーティスティックスイミングの星、比嘉もえ　父は元プロ野球選手・広島で活躍した寿光氏　小学３年の時から始めて２年で全国制覇 [The star of artistic swimming, Moe Higa: Father is a retired pro baseball player who used to play for Hiroshima; starting from Primary 3, won national championships two years in a row]. Sankei Sports. 13 April 2022. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
21. 「息合わせ、華麗に舞う＝初出場ペア―ＡＳ・比嘉、佐藤選手〔五輪〕」 [Breathing in unison and dancing spendidly: artistic swimming debut pair Higa and Sato (Olympics)]. Jiji Press. 11 August 2024. Retrieved 17 October 2024. 小学３年から中学３年まで地元水泳クラブで指導した片山満津芳さんによると、繰り返しが多い地味な練習にも黙々と取り組み、「先生見て、これでいい？」などと、よく質問をした。

External links

• Video of Kim and her partner Ha Su-gyeong practicing on 1 August 1988, via Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation (in Korean)