Mika Mizuta

is a Japanese Paralympic shooter. She specializes in 10m air rifle prone shooting (SH2 class).

Career When Mizuta was in the second year of junior high school, she was diagnosed with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, an incurable disease, and her upper limbs (from her right elbow to the fingertips of her left hand) and lower limbs (from both knees to the knees) are paralyzed. She attended Morimura Gakuen Elementary and Junior High School, but due to her illness, she went on to Machida-no-Oka Gakuen, a special needs school for high school. She started shooting beam rifles at the age of 17 and air rifles at the age of 19. Before her injury, she had experience in classical ballet and skiing,

In March 2020, Mizuta started crowdfunding to purchase a new wheelchair for competition, and exceeded her initial goal of 2 million yen in about one month after the start. In March 2020, she graduated from J. F. Oberlin University and joined Hakuju Life Science Institute on an athlete contract. She is currently enrolled in the Business Development Department. At the Tokyo Paralympics in 2021, she participated in the mixed 10m air rifle prone event (SH2 class). She began to experience breathing difficulties, which she had been concerned about, halfway through the event, and was eliminated in the preliminaries in 32nd place.