OKUMURA Mai

Date of Birth: 31 Oct 1990

Age: 30

Gender: Female

Height (m/ft): 1.77/5'9''

Place of birth: NAGATORO

Birth Country:

Japan

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Volleyball	Women JPN Japan	10

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Ariake Arena	Women's Preliminary Round - Pool A #05 JPN Japan 3 KEN Kenya 0	Finished
	Ariake Arena	Women's Preliminary Round - Pool A #09 JPN Japan 0 SRB Serbia 3	Finished
	Ariake Arena	Women's Preliminary Round - Pool A #17 JPN Japan 0 BRA Brazil 3	Finished
	Ariake Arena	Women's Preliminary Round - Pool A #23 JPN Japan 2 KOR Republic of Korea 3	Finished
	Ariake Arena	Women's Preliminary Round - Pool A #29 JPN Japan 1 DOM Dominican Rep. 3	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

World Championship

Rank	Event	Year	Location
6	Women	2018	Japan

Nations League - Final Round

Rank	Event	Year	Location
4	Women	2021	Italy

Rank	Event	Year	Location
5	Women	2019	Japan

Asian Games

Rank	Event	Year	Location
4	Women	2018	Indonesia

Asian Championships

Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Women	2017	Philippines

Grand Champions Cup

Rank	Event	Year	Location
5	Women	2017	Japan

Occupation:

Athlete, Office Worker

Kaetsu University, Kodaira, JPN

Languages spoken:

Denso Airybees [Nishio, JPN] since 2019/20

Gen Kawakita [club], JPN; Kumi Nakada [national], JPN

Position style:

Middle blocker (airybees.denso.com, 08 Jan 2021)

National league:

V.League Division 1 [JPN] (airybees.denso.com, 08 Jan 2021)

To win a medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (mainichi.jp, 06 Jun 2019)

Japanese volleyball player Ai Otomo. (airybees.denso.com, 08 Jan 2021)

Philosophy:

"Great talents mature late." (airybees.denso.com, 08 Jan 2021)

She received the Most Valuable Player [MVP] award in the 2014/15 V.Challenge League in Japan. (vleague.jp, 06 Apr 2015)

She received the Best Rookie award and Best Blocker award in the 2013/14 V.Premier League in Japan. (airybees.denso.com, 29 Aug 2019)

General Interest

General
OVERSEAS EXPERIENCE
In October 2018 she moved to Thailand to play for Nakhon Ratchasima following encouragement from Thai volleyball player [and her former teammate at JT Marvelous] Onuma Sittirak. She returned to Japan the following year to join Denso Airybees ahead of the 2019/20 Japanese V.League Division 1 season. "I had the most fun playing volleyball in my life. I want to make use of what I learned in Thailand as a representative of Japan." (fujitv.co.jp, 04 May 2019; Thai Volleyball Twitter profile, 21 Jul 2018; mainichi.jp, 06 Jun 2019)

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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