Taeko Takeba

Taeko Takeba

Personal information
Full name	Taeko Takeba
Nationality	Japan
Born	(1966-06-16) 16 June 1966 (age 58) Kobe, Japan
Height	1.59 m (5 ft 2+1⁄2 in)
Weight	66 kg (146 lb)
Sport
Sport	Shooting
Event	Trap (TR75)
Club	Ehime Clay Shooting Association[1]
Coached by	Atsushi Otsuke[1]

Taeko Takeba (竹葉 多重子, Takeba Taeko, born June 16, 1966 in Kobe) is a Japanese trap shooter.[2] 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 in Busan, South Korea, and represented her nation Japan in two editions of the Olympic Games (2000 and 2004).[1][3] During her sporting career, Takeba trained full-time for the Ehime Clay Shooting Association under her personal coach Atsushi Otsuke[1][3]

Takeba made her official debut at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, 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.[4][5]

Shortly after the Games, Takeba rose to a sporting fame with a gold medal victory over Russian shooter and world record holder Elena Tkach at the 2001 ISSF World Cup final with a remarkable score of 88 targets.[3]

At the 2004 Summer Olympics 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, China.[1][6] 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.[7][8]

References

1. "ISSF Profile – Taeko Takeba". ISSF. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
2. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Taeko Takeba". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
3. "Takeba wins World Cup trap shoot". The Japan Times. 29 January 2002. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
4. "Sydney 2000: Shooting – Women's Trap" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. p. 96. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
5. "China's Cai wins air rifle gold". Sydney 2000. Canoe.ca. 18 September 2000. Archived from the original on April 13, 2015. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
6. 竹葉を代表に決定　アテネ五輪クレー射撃 [Trap shooter Takeba will compete at the Athens Olympics] (in Japanese). 47 News. 24 May 2004. Archived from the original on 13 April 2015. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
7. "竹葉が８位入賞　射撃" [Takeba finished eighth in trap shooting]. Shinmai. 16 August 2004. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
8. "Shooting: Women's Trap Prelims". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.

External links

• Japanese Olympic Committee Bio (in Japanese)
• ISSF Profile