Hiroko Tsukumo (born September 11, 1970 in

Hiroshima is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 1,199,391. The gross domestic product (GDP) in Greater Hiroshima, Hiroshima Urban Employment Area, was US$61.3 billion as of 2010. Kazumi Matsui h ...

) is a retired

volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...

player from

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

, who competed for the Japan women's national team in the 1990s. She was named ''Best Digger'' and ''Best Receiver'' at the

1998 FIVB Women's World Championship The 1998 FIVB Women's World Championship was the thirteenth edition of the tournament, organised by the world's governing body, the FIVB. It was held from 3 to 12 November 1998 in Tokyo, Tokuyama, Matsumoto, Kagoshima, Nagoya, Fukuoka, and Osaka ...

. Tsukumo played as a libero.

Individual awards

* '' 1998 World Championship "Best Digger"'' * '' 1998 World Championship "Best Receiver"'' * '' 1999 FIVB World Cup "Best Digger"''

References

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1970 births Living people Japanese women's volleyball players Sportspeople from Hiroshima Asian Games medalists in volleyball Volleyball players at the 1998 Asian Games Medalists at the 1998 Asian Games Asian Games bronze medalists for Japan {{Japan-volleyball-bio-stub