Yukiko Takahashi

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Yukiko Takahashi
portrait
birthday November 12, 1967
place of birth Suzuka, Japan
size 1.68 m
Indoor volleyball
National team
A national team
successes
1988 - Olympic fourth.
1992 - Olympic fifth
beach volleyball
Partner 1994–1996 Sachiko Fujita
1996–1997 Yukiko Ishizaka
1997–2000 Mika Saiki
successes
1996 - Fifth in the
Olympics. 2000 - Fourth in the Olympics
As of August 2, 2011

Yukiko Takahashi ( Japanese 高橋 有 紀 子 , Takahashi Yukiko , married Kito ( 鬼頭 ); born November 12, 1967 in Suzuka ) is a former Japanese volleyball and beach volleyball player and coach. She participated in four Olympic Games.

Career

She attended the private Hachiōji Jissen High School in Hachiōji , Tokyo Prefecture , which has produced many well-known players such as Hiroko Hakuta , Miyuki Kanō , Asako Tajimi or Nanae Takizawa . After finishing school, she found a job with Hitachi .

Takahashi played as an indoor volleyball player with the Japanese national team at the 1988 Olympic tournament . The Japanese lost 3-0 to the Chinese in the game for the bronze medal . She then moved from Hitachi to Odakyū and played for their company team. Four years later, the team with Takahashi lost in the quarter-finals of the games in Barcelona against Brazil and finished fifth after a win in the placement game against the Netherlands .

In 1994 Takahashi began a career as a beach volleyball player with her partner Sachiko Fujita . The two Japanese immediately establish themselves in the international top and achieved fourth place at the Osaka Open. In the 1996 Olympic tournament , they narrowly missed the semi-finals due to a defeat in the losing round against the later silver medalists Mônica Rodrigues and Adriana Samuel from Brazil. The next year, Takahashi and her new partner Yukiko Ishizaka made it to the finals of the world series tournament in Busan and the duo came in 17th at the World Cup in Los Angeles .

Then Takahashi formed a new duo with Mika Saiki , 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 2001 Takahashi took part in the tournament at home again with Yukiko Ishizaka .

In 2009 she became the trainer of the youth beach volleyball team.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ２０１２ （平 成 24） 年度 ビ ー チ バ レ ー 指導 者 講習 会 ① 要 項 . (No longer available online.) Japan Beach Volleyball Federation, 2012, archived from the original on August 20, 2012 ; Retrieved on May 27, 2014 (Japanese, very probably more precisely Kitō instead of Kito). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jbv.jp
  2. ↑ 鬼頭 有 紀 子 (Takahashi). In: Facebook. Retrieved on May 27, 2014 (see in particular the URL path yukiko.kito.7 for reading).
  3. ↑ a b c d 長野 県 関係 の 代表 ６ 選手 プ ロ フ ィ ー ル . Shinano Mainichi Shimbun, 2000, accessed August 3, 2011 (Japanese).
  4. ↑ フ ァ イ テ ン JBV ツ ア ー 第 4 戦 東京 オ ー プ ン 放映 日程 決定 . (No longer available online.) Japan Beach Volleyball Federation, August 2009, archived from the original on August 20, 2012 ; Retrieved May 27, 2014 (Japanese). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jbv.jp
personal data
SURNAME Takahashi, Yukiko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 高橋 有 紀 子 (Japanese, maiden name); Kito Yukiko; 鬼頭 有 紀 子 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese volleyball and beach volleyball player
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Suzuka , Nagano Prefecture