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Yoko Shinozaki

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Yoko Shinozaki
Medal record
Representing  Japan
Women's volleyball
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 1964 Tokyo Team
Women's World Championship
Gold medal – first place 1967 Japan Team
Gold medal – first place 1962 Soviet Union Team

Yoko Shinozaki (篠崎 洋子, Shinozaki Yōko, born January 29, 1945) is a Japanese volleyball player and Olympic champion.

She was a major player to help Japanese women's national volleyball team to dominate the World in 1962-67 by winning 1962 FIVB Women's World Championship, 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games and 1967 FIVB Women's World Championship in row.[1]

References

  1. ^ "1964 Summer Olympics – Tokyo, Japan – Volleyball" Archived 2010-09-20 at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on September 7, 2008)