Miyuki Takahashi (高橋みゆき ''Takahashi Miyuki'', born 25 December 1978) is a

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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 who plays for the

NEC Red Rockets is a women's volleyball team based in Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan. It plays in V.League 1. The owner of the team is NEC. The club was founded in April 1978 as NEC's corporate team, participating the same year in the 10th V.Challenge League to ...

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Miyuki Takahashi also plays for the All-Japan women's volleyball team and participated at the

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2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ...

. Her nickname is SHIN (心 ''Shin'').
She was the captain of the Japanese volleyball team during the Volleyball World Championship.

Clubs

* Yamagata Higashi Jr. *

(1997–2005) * Minetti Infoplus Vicenza (2005–2007) *

(2007–2009) *

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(2011-current)

National team

*2001: Bronze Medal in the World Grand Champions Cup 2001 *2002: 13th place in the World Championship 2002 *2003: 5th place in the World Cup 2003 *2004: 5th place in the Olympic Games of Athens *2006: 6th place in the World Championship 2006 *2007: 7th place in the World Cup 2007 *2008: 5th place in the Olympic Games of Beijing

Individual awards

* '' 2004 Olympic Qualifier "Best Spiker"'' * '' 2005 FIVB World Grand Prix "Best Scorer"'' * Best Server (World Grand Champion Cup 2001)

References

External links

FIVB biography

{{DEFAULTSORT:Takahashi, Miyuki Volleyball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics 1978 births Japanese women's volleyball players Living people People from Yamagata Prefecture Volleyball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic volleyball players of Japan NEC Red Rockets players Asian Games medalists in volleyball Volleyball players at the 2002 Asian Games Volleyball players at the 2006 Asian Games Asian Games silver medalists for Japan Asian Games bronze medalists for Japan Medalists at the 2002 Asian Games Medalists at the 2006 Asian Games