Mai Yamaguchi
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| Full name | Mai Yamaguchi | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Yume, Pearl | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | July 3, 1983 Shima, Mie, Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 176 cm (5 ft 9 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 62 kg (137 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Spike | 308 cm (121 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Block | 300 cm (118 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Wing Spiker/Middle Blocker | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Current club | Retired | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mai Yamaguchi (山口 舞 Yamaguchi Mai, born July 3, 1983) is a former Japanese volleyball player who played for Okayama Seagulls. She was part of Japan's 2012 bronze medal-winning team.[2]
Mai participated in the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship, which was her last international tournament with the national team. She announced her retirement from volleyball in 2019.[3][4]
Profile
[edit]Her nickname is "Yume", which means "dream" in Japanese. Another nickname is Pearl, which is locally farmed specialty of her hometown of Shima, in Mie prefecture. She liked knitting and cooking at the time of her bronze medal and she also enjoyed figure skating.[5]
Clubs
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Osaka International Takii High School- Okayama Seagulls (2002-2019)
National team
[edit]- National team (2009-2018)
Awards
[edit]Individual
[edit]- 2011–12 V.Premier League - Best 6
- 2013–14 V.Premier League - Best 6
Team
[edit]- 2005 Kurowashiki All Japan Volleyball Tournament -
Runner-Up, with Okayama Seagulls - 2002–06,08–11 Domestic Sports Festival (Volleyball) -
Champion, with Okayama Seagulls - 2012–13 V.Premier League -
Bronze Medal with Okayama Seagulls - 2013 Empress's Cup -
Runner-up with Okayama Seagulls - 2013–14 V.Premier League - Runner-up with Okayama Seagulls
National team
[edit]- 2010 World Championship - Bronze medal
- 2011 Asian Championship - Silver medal
- 2012 Olympics - Bronze medal
- 2014 FIVB World Grand Prix - Silver medal
References
[edit]- ^ "Japanese Medalists in London 2012 Olympics". joc.or.jp. Japanese Olympic Committee. Retrieved 17 January 2014.
- ^ "Mai Yamaguchi Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17. Retrieved 2015-06-16.
- ^ "バレーボール引退の山口舞が会見". Reuters (in Japanese). 2019-04-25. Retrieved 2022-10-19.
- ^ "志摩出身女子バレーメダリスト山口舞選手が引退報告 真珠いかだで遊んだ経験生かされた". 伊勢志摩経済新聞. Retrieved 2022-10-19.
- ^ "FIVB". www.fivb.org. Retrieved 2020-03-10.
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