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.[1]
Asahi began to work for yhr IT company Forval Corporation in 2011 through a Japanese Olympic Committee athlete hiring program.[2]
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.[3]
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 the FIVB beach volleyball database
- Kentaro Asahi at Olympics.com
- Kentaro Asahi at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
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