Mika Saiki
Mika "Teru" Saiki | |
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portrait | |
birthday | September 25, 1971 |
place of birth | Matsuyama, Japan |
size | 1.72 m |
Indoor volleyball | |
National team | |
A national team | |
successes | |
1996 - Olympic participant | |
beach volleyball | |
Partner | 1997–2000 Yukiko Takahashi 2003–2004 Satoko Urata 2005 Ryōko Tokuno 2006 Hiromi Suzuki 2006–2008 Chiaki Kusuhara |
successes | |
2000 - Olympic fourth | |
As of August 2, 2011 |
Mika "Teru" Saiki ( Japanese 佐伯 美 香 , Saiki Mika ; born September 25, 1971 in Matsuyama ) is a former Japanese volleyball and beach volleyball player . She took part in both disciplines in the Olympic Games.
Career
Saiki took part in 1996 as an indoor volleyball player with the Japanese national team at the Olympic tournament in Atlanta . However, the team was eliminated after the preliminary round.
After the Beach Volleyball World Cup in 1997 , she formed a duo with Yukiko Takahashi in the sand , with whom she had recently completed two open tournaments. Takahashi / Saiki lost in the quarter-finals of the 1999 World Cup in Marseille to the eventual winners Sandra Pires and Adriana Samuel . Against the same opponents they lost the duel for the bronze medal at the Olympic tournament in Sydney the following year , after they had previously finished third and second at the Open tournaments in Berlin and Osaka .
In 2003 Saiki returned to the international tournaments with her new partner Satoko Urata , but only managed a top ten placement in Osaka in 2004. At the 2005 World Cup in Berlin, she lost with Ryōko Tokuno to the Germans Pohl / Rau and the Dutch Keizer / Leenstra . After unsuccessful appearances at the side of Hiromi Suzuki , she played with Chiaki Kusuhara from the end of 2006 . The new duo finished ninth in Phuket , Warsaw and Stavanger , but did not win a set at the 2007 World Cup in Gstaad . The same result came the following year at the Olympic tournament in Beijing . Saiki then ended her international career.
Web links
- Profile at FIVB (English)
- Profile in the Beach Volleyball Database (English)
- Mika Saiki in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Saiki, Mika |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 佐伯 美 香 (Japanese) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese volleyball and beach volleyball player |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 25, 1971 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Matsuyama |