YAMAUCHI Akihiro

World Championship

Rank	Event	Year	Location
17	Men	2018

World Cup

Rank	Event	Year	Location
4	Men	2019	Japan

Asian Championships

Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Men	2017	Indonesia
3	Men	2019	Islamic Republic of Iran

Grand Champions Cup

Rank	Event	Year	Location
6	Men	2017	Japan

Yama (panasonic.co.jp, 14 Feb 2021)

Watching foreign television shows, playing video games. (panasonic.co.jp, 14 Feb 2021)

Athlete, Office Worker

Policy Studies - Aichi Gakuin University, Japan

Japanese

Panasonic Panthers [Japan] since 2016

Laurent Tillie [club], FRA; Yuichi Nakagaichi [national], JPN

Middle blocker (panasonic.co.jp, 14 Feb 2021)

2014 for Japan, World League in Italy (jva.or.jp, 03 May 2015)

He was troubled by an injury after competing at the 2019 World Cup in Japan, and returned to competitive action a month later in November. (vbm.link, 23 Nov 2019)

V.League Division 1 [JPN] (vleague.jp, 17 Oct 2020)

He began playing volleyball in grade 10 at Nagoya City Industrial Arts High School in Japan. (fujitv.co.jp, 18 Jun 2014)

Although his mother played volleyball, he initially played basketball because there was no volleyball team at his primary school. He continued playing basketball in middle school, but switched to volleyball after entering high school. "I wanted to try out handball, but I wasn't confident enough after seeing players who had good physiques compared to me who was quite lean. At that time, the volleyball coach encouraged me to join the club by saying that it would be less intense than basketball." (4years.asahi.com, 21 Jul 2020)

"Don't lose out." (panasonic.co.jp, 14 Feb 2021)