Junko Fujii

Junko Fujii
藤井順子
Personal information
Nationality Japan
Born (1966 -04-03) 3 April 1966
Height 1.58 m (5 ft 2 in)
Weight 50 kg (110 lb)
Volleyball information
Number 4
Career
YearsTeams
2008-2012 (?)Japan Saitama Red Beads Venus
National team
1992-2012Japan Japan sitting volleyball team

Junko Fujii (藤井 順子[1][2][3] Fujii Junko, born (1966 -04-03)3 April 1966) is a Japanese female Paralympic sitting volleyball player.[1][4][5][6] She is part of the Japan women's national sitting volleyball team.

Biography

Junko Fujii was born 3 April 1966. She currently resides in Kawaguchi, Saitama in Japan.

Sitting volleyball

Fujii began playing the sport of sitting volleyball at the age of 27 after an amputation.[4] She made her debut for the Japanese national team in 1992 and is coached by Tsutomu Tanabe.[4] She competed at the 2008 Summer Paralympics a part of a Japan team that lost all three of its preliminary round matches.[7]

She and her teammates won the silver medal at the 2010 Asian Para Games.[8] She again represented Japan at the 2012 Summer Paralympics finishing 8th.[9][10]

Fujii was named to the 2016 Intercontinental Womens Sitting Volleyball team for Japan.[11]

On club level she played for Saitama Red Beads Venus in 2012.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "動画 【北京パラリンピック】シッティングバレーボール女子 - 全国 東京 ニュース・天気 スポーツ 北京五輪 PeeVee.TV".
  2. ↑ "参加する１３５人の日本選手". 朝日新聞デジタル (in Japanese). 朝日新聞社. Retrieved 2016-05-05.
  3. ↑ "協会概要" (in Japanese). 日本パラバレーボール協会. Retrieved 2016-05-05.
  4. 1 2 3 "Athlete Bio FUJII Junko". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 5 May 2016.
  5. ↑ "events-production-jp". events-production-jp.
  6. ↑ "TOL25周年 もっとスポーツ！もっと夢！ -5- シッティングバレーボール".
  7. ↑ "Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games Volleyball (Sitting) Women". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 5 May 2016.
  8. ↑ "Sitting volleyball at the 2010 Asian Para Games - Medalists".
  9. ↑ "Paralympic volleyball squad - Japan". london2012.com.
  10. ↑
  11. ↑ "2016インターコンチネンタル　日本代表　女子" [2016 Intercontinental Japanese Womens Delegation] (in Japanese). Japan Para-Volleyball Association. Retrieved May 5, 2016.


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