Kentaro Asahi
Encyclopedia
is a beach volleyball
player from Japan
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Asahi is a former volleyball
player, and played as a center for the Men's National Team
in the 1990s. He ended up in sixteenth place at the 1998 World Championship
, and later on started a career in beach volleyball. He and team mate Katsuhiro Shiratori
also represented Japan in beach volleyball at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China.
Beach volleyball
Beach volleyball, or sand volleyball, is an Olympic team sport played by two teams of two players on a sand court divided by a net.Like volleyball, the object of the game is to send the ball over the net in order to ground it on the opponent’s court, and to prevent the same effort by the opponent....
player from Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
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Asahi is a former volleyball
Volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
player, and played as a center for the Men's National Team
Japan men's national volleyball team
The Japan men's national volleyball team is the volleyball national team of Japan. The Asian squad started to play an important role in international competitions in the 1960s, scoring an eighth place at their inaugural World Championship in Brazil in 1960...
in the 1990s. He ended up in sixteenth place at the 1998 World Championship
1998 FIVB Men's World Championship
The 1998 FIVB Men's Volleyball World Championship was the fourteenth edition of the tournament, organised by the world's governing body, the FIVB...
, and later on started a career in beach volleyball. He and team mate Katsuhiro Shiratori
Katsuhiro Shiratori
is a beach volleyball player from Japan.He represented Japan at the 2008 Summer Olympics, with teammate Kentaro Asahi.-External links:*...
also represented Japan in beach volleyball at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China.