Kōjirō Horimizu

Kojiro Horimizu (堀水 宏次郎, Horimizu Kōjirō, born 1 January 1982) is a Japanese sports shooter from Zentsūji in Kagawa Prefecture, Japan.

Personal life Horimizu joined the Kagawa Prefectural Police in 2000, after graduating high school, and took up shooting in 2002.

As of 2021, Horimizu held the rank of Assistant Inspector in the Kagawa Prefectural Police.

Shooting career

National sports championship In 2011, Horimizu competed in the 66th National sports tournament, held in Yamaguchi, winning his event. 13th in the 25m metre centre-fire pistol, with a score of 578, and 7th in the 50m pistol, with a score of 556. While none of these results were enough for an individual medal, he won team bronze medals in the 10m air pistol and 50m pistol events with his team mates Susumu Kobayashi and Tomoyuki Matsuda.

Olympic qualification difficulties. Horimizu sought selection for the 2012 London Olympics, the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. However, he failed to qualify in any of the selection meetings.

In March 2021, Horimizu claimed second place for the 10 meter air pistol event at the Japanese selection event for the Tokyo Olympics. While this was not, at first sufficient to gain him a spot, the winner was unable afterwards to achieve a score high enough to gain Olympics selection, so Horimizu qualified as the highest ranked athlete in Japan who had gained qualification. and 20th in the mixed event, with a combined score of 559.