Yuriko Handa
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Born | Tochigi, Tochigi, Japan[1] | March 31, 1940||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.66 m (5 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||||
Weight | 60 kg (130 lb) | ||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Volleyball | ||||||||||||||||
Club | Nichibo Kaizuka | ||||||||||||||||
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Yuriko Handa (半田 百合子, Handa Yuriko, born 31 March 1940) is a retired Japanese volleyball player. She was a member of the Japanese winning teams, Oriental Witches ,[2] at the 1962 World Championships and 1964 Summer Olympics.[1]
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- ^ Jump up to: a b Yuriko Handa sports-reference.com
- ^ Remembering Volleyball's 'Oriental Witches' - The New York Times
External links[]
- Video of the moments of victory and of awarding gold medal in 1964 Tokyo Olympics
- Yuriko Handa at Olympedia
- Yuriko Handa at databaseOlympics.com (archived)
- Yuriko Handa at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
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- 1940 births
- Living people
- Olympic volleyball players of Japan
- Volleyball players at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for Japan
- Japanese women's volleyball players
- Olympic medalists in volleyball
- Sportspeople from Tochigi Prefecture
- Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Japanese Olympic medalist stubs
- Japanese volleyball biography stubs