ISHIJIMA Yusuke

BEACH VOLLEYBALL

World Championships

Rank	Event	Year	Location
37	Men	2019	Hamburg, GER

Asian Championships

Rank	Event	Year	Location
9	Men	2020	Udon Thani, THA

World Tour - Tally of rank achieved per season since 2017

Year	Event	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	7th	9th	17th	19th-37th
2019	Men	-	-	-	-	1x	-	-	1x	2x
2018	Men	1x	-	-	-	-	-	4x	2x	1x
2017	Men	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1x	-

World Tour - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location
1	2018	Men	Bangkok	Bangkok, THA
5	2019	Men	Knokke-Heist	Knokke-Heist, BEL
9	2018	Men	Singapore	Singapore, SIN
9	2018	Men	Baden	Baden, AUT
9	2018	Men	Jinjiang	Jinjiang, CHN
9	2018	Men	Satun	Satun, THA
13	2019	Men	Ljubljana	Ljubljana, SLO
17	2019	Men	Qinzhou	Qinzhou, CHN
17	2018	Men	Tokyo	Tokyo, JPN
17	2018	Men	Qinzhou	Qinzhou, CHN
17	2017	Men	Espinho	Espinho, POR

VOLLEYBALL

Olympic Games

Rank	Event	Year	Location
11	Men	2008	Beijing, CHN

World Championship

Rank	Event	Year	Location
8	Men	2006	Japan
13	Men	2010	Italy

Gottsu (fivb.com, 11 Oct 2020; 4years.asahi.com, 04 Apr 2021)

Athlete, Office Worker

Physical Education - University of Tsukuba, Japan

Japanese

Sakai Blazers [Osaka, JPN] since 2017

Right (beach.jva.or.jp, 08 Oct 2020)

He has also represented Japan in indoor volleyball, competing at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, and the 2006 and 2010 world championships. He played for Japanese V.League club Sakai Blazers from 2005 until 2016. He was named V.League Rookie of the Year for 2006, and Most Valuable Player for the 2010/11 season. (SportsDeskOnline, 12 Jul 2021; 4years.asahi.com, 18 Apr 2021; blazers.gr.jp, 2016)

He took up volleyball in grade seven of middle school. He began playing beach volleyball in 2014 before switching his focus to the sport in 2017. (4years.asahi.com, 18 Apr 2021, 28 Mar 2021)

He originally practised kendo while in primary school, but joined the volleyball team in middle school as there was not a kendo team. He began playing beach volleyball in 2014 after he was not called up to the Japanese volleyball team. "I had experience in beach volleyball, so I knew there was not such tough competition, though I never considered switching. But when I thought about the next step in my career, it became one option of taking on a new challenge." (4years.asahi.com, 28 Mar 2021, 01 Apr 2021; sports.yahoo.co.jp, 02 Dec 2016)

Japanese beach volleyball player Katsuhiro Shiratori. (chunichi.co.jp, 06 Jun 2021)

"Don't defeat yourself." (4years.asahi.com, 11 Apr 2021)