{"id":59381,"date":"2021-05-24T06:21:49","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T06:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/?p=59381"},"modified":"2021-05-24T06:21:49","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T06:21:49","slug":"ishii-and-murakami-selected-to-represent-japan-in-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/ishii-and-murakami-selected-to-represent-japan-in-tokyo\/","title":{"rendered":"ISHII AND MURAKAMI SELECTED TO REPRESENT JAPAN IN TOKYO"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><p><strong>The duo win the six-team Olympic trials and earn a place at the Games<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Veterans Miki Ishii and Megumi Murakami will occupy Japan\u2019s host country spot at the Tokyo Olympics beach volleyball tournament after they won the nation\u2019s Olympic trials on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The top-seeded pair in the six-team tournament that took place at the Dome in Tachikawa City, Tokyo, Ishii and Murakami secured the right to represent their country at the upcoming Olympics after they defeated Chiyo Suzuki and Yurika Sakaguchi 2-0 (21-16, 21-12) in the final.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament went full circle for the 31-year-old Ishii and the 35-year-old Murakami as they had lost to Suzuki and Sakaguchi in the first round before meeting them again in the final.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe formed the team with the goal of qualifying for the Tokyo Olympics,\u201d Murakami commented. \u201cThe Olympics are just two months away now and we want to show the world all we have worked on in practice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-59382\" src=\"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1-4-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1-4-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1-4-580x867.jpg 580w, https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1-4-500x748.jpg 500w, https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1-4.jpg 642w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ishii and Murakami are currently the top-ranked Japanese team in the FIVB World Ranking at the 32nd position. They have been playing together on the FIVB World Tour since 2015, when they first tried to qualify for the Olympics. They won gold at a one-star event in Daegu in 2017, silver at a two-star tournament in Zhongwei in 2019 and bronze at a three-star in Tokyo in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to win a medal at the Olympics,\u201d Ishii added. \u201cWe know it\u2019s a difficult thing to accomplish, but we\u2019re confident that people will be able to see how hard we\u2019ve been working for it. It will be a great experience for our team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Japanese Volleyball Federation will run a similar tournament to determine which men\u2019s team will represent the country at the Tokyo Olympics from June 5-6.<\/p>\n<p>Related links of AVC<br \/>\nAVC Website: click www.asianvolleyball.net<br \/>\nAVC Facebook: click www.Facebook.com\/AsianVolleyballConfederation<br \/>\nAVC Twitter: click: https:\/\/twitter.com\/avcvolley<br \/>\nAVC Instagram: click: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/avcvolley\/?hl=en<br \/>\nAVC Youtube: click: Asian Volleyball Confederation<br \/>\nAVC WeChat: Asian Volleyball Confederation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The duo win the six-team Olympic trials and earn a place at the Games Veterans Miki Ishii and Megumi Murakami will occupy Japan\u2019s host country spot at the Tokyo Olympics&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":59383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[88,104,100,85,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beach-volleyball-news","category-latest-news","category-slider","category-volleyball","category-volleyball-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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