Hifumi Suzuki (鈴木十二美, ''Suzuki Hifumi'', born 18 December 1957) is a

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Paralympic archer who competed at four different games and gained several medals.

Life

Suzuki was born in 1957. She shoots with a recurve bow in the Paralympic W2 class for

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s. She first competed at the

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. She also went to the paralympics in

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and

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. At the 1996 Paralympics in Atlanta, she won an individual gold medal as well as a silver medal in the women's team open event alongside Shigeko Matsueda and Masako Yonezawa. She also competed in

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where she won a bronze medal women's teams open event alongside

Naomi Isozaki Naomi Isozaki (礒崎直美, ''Isozaki Naomi'') is a Japanese Paralympic archer. Isozaki competed at the Paralympic Games in 2000, where she won a bronze medal in the women's teams open event alongside Hifumi Suzuki and Masako Yonezawa, and in ...

and Masako Yonezawa.

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* 1957 births Living people Japanese female archers Paralympic archers for Japan Paralympic gold medalists for Japan Paralympic silver medalists for Japan Paralympic bronze medalists for Japan Paralympic medalists in archery Archers at the 1984 Summer Paralympics Archers at the 1992 Summer Paralympics Archers at the 1996 Summer Paralympics Archers at the 2000 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 1984 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 1992 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 1996 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2000 Summer Paralympics 20th-century Japanese women 21st-century Japanese women {{Japan-archery-bio-stub