Yuko Sano

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Yuko Sano

Personal information

Full name

Yoko Sano

Nickname

Ryo

Born

July 26, 1979
Takatsuki, Osaka, Japan

Height

159 cm (5 ft 3 in)

Weight

53 kg (117 lb)^[1]

Spike

270cm

Block

260cm

Volleyball information

Position

Libero

Current club

Voléro Zürich

Number

National team

Japan

Yuko Sano
Medal record

Women's Volleyball
Competitor for Japan
Olympic Games
Bronze	2012 London	Team
World Championship
Bronze	2010 Japan	Team
Asian Championship
Gold	2007 Suphanburi	Team
Silver	2011 Taipei	Team
Bronze	2009 Hanoi	Team

Yuko Sano (佐野優子, born July 26, 1979 in Takatsuki, Osaka) is a volleyball player from Japan who currently plays for Galatasaray Daikin in Turkey.

She played as a libero for the Women's National Team at the 2008 Olympic Qualification Tournament in Japan. There the team ended up in third place, and qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics. Afterwards Sano was named Best Digger and Best Receiver at the event.

Career

Sano played at the 2013 Club World Championship with Voléro Zürich and she was selected Best Libero.^[2] Her team lost the bronze medal to Guangdong Evergrande.^[3]

Clubs

Kitasaga High School
Unitika (1998–2000)
Toray Arrows (2000–2003)
RC Cannes (2004–2006)
Hisamitsu Springs (2006–2010)
Igtisadchi Baku (2010-2012)
Galatasaray Daikin (2012-2013)
Voléro Zürich (2013-2014)
Denso Airybees (2013-2014)

Awards

Individuals

2003 9th V.League : Best Libero award, Servereceive award.
2006 Women's CEV Champions League : Best Libero award.
2007 2006-07 V.Premier League : Best Libero award.
2007 Asian Club Championship "Best Receiver"
2007 14th Asian Volleyball Championship : Best Receiver award
2007 Volleyball World Cup : Best Receiver award, Best Digger award.
2008 2007-08 V.Premier League : Best Libero award, Servereceive award
2008 FIVB World Grand Prix "Best Libero"
2008 Olympic Qualifier "Best Digger"
2008 Olympic Qualifier "Best Receiver"
2009 2008-09 V.Premier League : Best Libero award, Servereceive award, Excellent Player award
2011 World Cup "Best Digger"^[4]
2012-13 CEV Champions League "Best Receiver"
2013 FIVB Women's Club World Championship "Best Libero"

Team

2006-07 V.Premier League - Champion, with Hisamitsu Springs.
2007 Kurowashiki All Japan Volleyball Championship - Champion, with Hisamitsu Springs.
2007 Asian Club Championship - Bronze Medal with Hisamitsu Springs
2007-08 Empress's Cup - Runner-Up, with Hisamitsu Springs.
2008-09 V.Premier League - Runner-Up, with Hisamitsu Springs.
2009 Empress's Cup - Champion, with Hisamitsu Springs.
2009 Kurowashiki All Japan Volleyball Championship - Runner-Up, with Hisamitsu Springs.
2012 Turkish Volleyball Super Cup - Runner-Up, with Galatasaray Daikin
2012-2013 Turkish Women's Volleyball Cup - Bronze Medal with Galatasaray Daikin

National team

Senior Team

2007 Asian Championship - Gold medal
2008 Olympics - 5th placed (tied)
2009 Asian Championship - Bronze medal
2010 World Championship - Bronze medal
2011 Asian Championship - Silver medal
2012 Olympics - Bronze medal

References

↑ "Japanese Medalists in London 2012 Olympics". joc.or.jp. Japanese Olympic Committee. Retrieved 17 January 2014.
↑ "Vakifbank Istanbul fly to first Women’s Club World Champs title, China claim bronze". Zurich, Switzerland: FIVB. 2013-10-13. Retrieved 2013-10-13.
↑ "Guangdong beat Zurich 3-1 to claim Women’s Club World Champs bronze". Zurich, Switzerland: FIVB. 2013-10-13. Retrieved 2013-10-13.
↑ FIVB. "Best Digger". Retrieved 2011-11-18.

External links

FIVB Biography

v t e Japan – 2002 World Championship

Onuki Kumamae Naito Tanaka Oyama Mukai Kodama Takahashi Horai Sano Sugiyama Ōtomo

v t e Japan – 2008 Summer Olympics

Kurihara Tajimi Takeshita Omura Takahashi Sano Sugiyama Sakurai Kano Kawai Araki Kimura

v t e Japan – 2012 Summer Olympics Bronze Medalists

2 Nakamichi 3 Takeshita 4 Yamaguchi 5 Araki 7 Inoue 8 Kano 10 Sano 11 Ōtomo 12 Shinnabe 14 Sakoda 16 Ebata 18 Kimura Coach: Manabe

v t e Galatasaray Women's Volleyball Team 2012-13 roster

1 Cansu Aydınoğulları 2 Sinem Barut 3 Selime İlyasoğlu 4 Ecem Alıcı 6 Nihan Yeldan 7 Saori Kimura 8 Ergül Avcı 10 Aslı Kalaç 11 Gamze Alikaya 12 Madelaynne Montaño 13 Neriman Özsoy 14 Eleonora Lo Bianco 16 Özge Nur Yurtdagülen 17 Stefana Veljković 18 Ezgi Arslan 19 Dobriana Rabadzhieva Coach Massimo Barbolini

Persondata
Name	Sano, Yuko
Alternative names
Short description	Female Japanese volleyball player
Date of birth	July 26, 1979
Place of birth	Takatsuki, Osaka, Japan
Date of death
Place of death

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