Karin Miyawaki
Career. In 2014, she won the silver medal in the girl's foil event at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics held in Nanjing, China. She also won the gold medal in the mixed team event. In 2018, she was eliminated in her first match in the women's foil event at the 2018 World Fencing Championships held in Wuxi, China. In the same year, she won the gold medal in the women's team foil event at the 2018 Asian Games held in Indonesia. She also competed in the women's individual foil event without winning a medal . Personal life. Miyawaki was interested in sports from a young age; her sister took up fencing in elementary school and Miyawaki would go with her to practice. She attended Keio Girls' High School (reportedly because "[she] wanted to go to a high school that would let [her] fence instead of making [her] study for university examinations". She subsequently majored in economics at Keio University, where she was a member of the Keio Fencing Club.