Mika Saiki

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Mika "Teru" Saiki
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.

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personal data
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