Yuko Arakida
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Nationality | Japanese | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Tokyo, Japan | February 14, 1954||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Number | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Yuko Arakida (荒木田 裕子, Arakida Yūko) (born 14 February 1954) is a Japanese volleyball player and Olympic champion. She is now Chairwoman of Athlete's Committee of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA).
Yuko was a member of the Japanese winning team at the 1976 Olympic games.[1]
In February 2012, Yuko was appointed sports director of Tokyo's bid to host the 2020 Summer Olympics.[2]
References[edit]
- ^ "1976 Summer Olympics – Montreal, Canada – Volleyball" Archived 2015-09-23 at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on September 6, 2008)
- ^ Tokyo 2020 Appoints Gold Medalist As Sports Director Archived February 3, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
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- Living people
- Olympic volleyball players for Japan
- Volleyball players at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for Japan
- Japanese women's volleyball players
- Olympic medalists in volleyball
- Asian Games medalists in volleyball
- Volleyball players at the 1974 Asian Games
- Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1974 Asian Games
- Asian Games gold medalists for Japan
- 20th-century Japanese women
- Volleyball players from Tokyo
- Japanese Olympic medalist stubs
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