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| Full name | Kentaro Asahi | ||||||||||||||
| Born | (1975-09-19) September 19, 1975 (age 49) Japan | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.99 m (6 ft 6 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 83 kg (183 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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Kentaro Asahi (朝日健太郎, Asahi Kentarō, born September 19, 1975) is a Japanese professional beach volleyball player and politician. He was born in Kumamoto, Kumamoto Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan.
Asahi played as a center for the Japan men's national volleyball team in the 1990s. He ended up in sixteenth place at the 1998 World Championship, and later on started a career in beach volleyball. Asahi and teammate Katsuhiro Shiratori represented Japan in beach volleyball at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics.
Asahi began to work for the IT company Forval Corporation in 2011 through a Japanese Olympic Committee athlete hiring program.
In July 2016, Asahi was elected as a member of the House of Councillors representing the Tokyo at-large district for the Liberal Democratic Party.
Honours
- 1998 World Championship — 16th place
References
- "Kentaro Asahi". 2012 Summer Olympics. Archived from the original on 2013-04-02. Retrieved 2013-04-14.
- "Japan's athlete hiring program finding more success as 2020 Olympics approach". The Japan Times. Jiji. 16 February 2016. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
- "朝日健太郎氏、当選 自民・東京 元ビーチバレー代表". Asahi Shimbun. 11 July 2016. Archived from the original on 6 August 2016. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
- Kentaro Asahi - Profile Archived 2005-02-10 at the Wayback Machine at the All Japan Team
- Kentaro Asahi at the Beach Volleyball Database
External links
- Kentaro Asahi at FIVB.com
- Kentaro Asahi at Olympics.com
- Kentaro Asahi at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
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- Japanese men's volleyball players
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- Olympic beach volleyball players for Japan
- Asian Games medalists in beach volleyball
- Asian Games bronze medalists for Japan
- Beach volleyball players at the 2006 Asian Games
- Beach volleyball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Beach volleyball players at the 2010 Asian Games
- Beach volleyball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Members of the House of Councillors (Japan)
- Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) politicians
- Sportspeople from Kumamoto
- Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games
- Japanese sportsperson-politicians
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