ISHITATE Mayuko

World Championship

Rank	Event	Year	Location
10	Women	2019	Japan
14	Women	2013	Serbia
14	Women	2011	Brazil
16	Women	2009	People's Republic of China
19	Women	2015	Denmark

Asian Games

Rank	Event	Year	Location
3	Women	2018	Indonesia

Shiki (omronhbc.pro.tok2.com, 2012)

Athlete, Office Worker

Physical Education - University of Tsukuba, Japan

English, Japanese

Mie Violet Iris [Japan] since 2019

Ryosuke Kushida [club], JPN; Ulrik Kirkely [national], DEN

Centre back (handball.or.jp, 22 Jun 2019)

Right (plus-blog.sportsnavi.com, 22 Jun 2013)

She injured the anterior cruciate ligament, medial collateral ligament and meniscus in her knee during a match against the People's Republic of China at the 2018 Asian Games in Indonesia. (note.com, 18 Jun 2020; Instagram profile, 19 Aug 2019; Facebook profile, 28 Jun 2019)

Japan Handball League [JPN] (jhl.handball.jp, 17 Jan 2020)

She took up the sport in 2000 in middle school. (tsukubaway.com, 25 Nov 2019; mie-visc.jp, 01 Apr 2019)

She initially planned to join the school basketball team, but her teacher encouraged her to take up handball instead. (omronhbc.pro.tok2.com, 2012; tsukubaway.com, 25 Nov 2019)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. She also aspires to work as a handball coach. (Twitter profile, 17 Jan 2020; note.com, 29 Sep 2020)

Japanese figure skater Mao Asada, Dutch handball player Nycke Groot. (mie-visc.jp, 26 Oct 2020)

Coach Ikuyo Takano. (mie-visc.jp, 07 Jan 2020)

She was named the Most Valuable Player of the 2012/13 Japan Handball League Playoffs. (jhl.handball.jp, 24 Feb 2013; sankei.com, 30 Jun 2018)