Lisa Misipeka

Lisa Misipeka medal table
Discus throw , hammer throw , shot put
American Samoa
World championships
bronze	1999 Seville	Hammer throw

Lisa Misipeka (born January 3, 1975 ) is a former athlete from American Samoa who specialized in hammer throwing. She was also active in the shot put and discus throw . She holds the national records of American Samoa in all three disciplines, and shares the record in discus throw with Talafulu Misa.

As a shot putter, she took part in the 1995 World Athletics Championships in Gothenburg and the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta . With widths of 13.98 m and 13.74 m, however, they were eliminated after qualifying.

Then she focused on the hammer throw. At the 1999 World Athletics Championships in Seville , she celebrated the greatest success of her career when she won the bronze medal with a width of 66.06 m. It was the first ever world championship medal that an athlete won for American Samoa. In two other world championships (2001 and 2003) she missed the finals as well as at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney .

At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens , she was the flag bearer of her country at the opening ceremony. In the hammer throw, however, she did not manage to achieve a valid distance.

Lisa Misipeka had a competition weight of 84 kg with a height of 1.70 m. She studied at the University of South Carolina from 1994 to 1998 and began working as a track and field trainer at the end of her active career.

Top performances

• Discus throw: 51.76 m (= NR), March 22, 1997, Columbia (Missouri)
• Hammer throw: 69.24 m (NR), June 8, 2003, Burnaby
• Shot put: 16.67 m (NR), April 15, 1995, Columbia, South Carolina

Web links

• Lisa Misipeka in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Lisa Misipeka's biography on the California State University, Fresno website

Individual evidence

1. ^ National records of the oceanic countries ( English , DOC; 244 kB) Oceanic Athletics Association. Archived from the original on September 19, 2009. Retrieved June 30, 2009.