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Takako Shirai
Personal information
Full name	Takako Shirai (-Takagi)
Born	(1952-07-18) 18 July 1952 (age 72) Okayama, Okayama, Japan
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Volleyball information
Position	Outside hitter
Number	8 (1972) 5 (1976)
National team
1970–1977  Japan
Honours Women's volleyball Representing  Japan Olympic Games 1972 Munich Team 1976 Montreal Team World Championship 1974 Mexico FIVB World Cup 1977 Japan Asian Games 1970 Bangkok Team 1974 Tehran Team

Takako Shirai (白井貴子 Shirai Takako, Korean: 윤정순, Hanja: 尹貞順, born 18 July 1952) is a former volleyball player from Japan and two-time Olympian who was a member of the Japanese women's national volleyball team that won the gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. Shirai also helped Japan win the silver medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. She was an outside hitter.

Shirai became a key player in the rise of the Japanese women in the 1970s. She helped the Japanese women secure a gold medal at the 1974 FIVB World Championship in Mexico. She was also key in Japan's gold medal win at the 1977 FIVB World Cup in Japan.

In 2000, Shirai became an inductee of the International Volleyball Hall of Fame in Holyoke, Massachusetts.

National team

• 1972 — 2nd place in the Olympic Games of Munich
• 1974 — 1st place in the World Championship
• 1976 — 1st place in the Olympic Games of Montreal

References

1. ^ "Takako Shirai". International Volleyball Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on 26 March 2023. Retrieved 6 October 2023.
2. ^ "Takako Shirai". Olympedia. Archived from the original on 3 May 2024. Retrieved 1 October 2024.
3. Herman, Robin (31 July 1976). "Japan's Women Top Russians in Volleyball". The New York Times. p. 34. Retrieved 1 October 2024. (subscription required)

External links

• Takako Shirai at Olympedia
• International Volleyball Hall of Fame profile
• Volleybox.net profile
• Sports-reference.com profile (archived)

v t e Japan women's volleyball squad – 1972 Summer Olympics – Silver medal
1 Oinuma 2 Yamashita 3 Shimakage 4 Furukawa 5 Iida 6 Matsumura 7 Shiokawa 8 Shirai 9 Okamoto 10 Hama 11 Yamazaki 12 Iwahara Coach: Kojima

v t e Japan squad – 1974 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship – Gold medal
Arakida Furuta Iida Kanesaka Kato Koyama Matsuda Okamoto Saito Shirai Yano Yokoyama Coach: Yamada

v t e Japan women's volleyball squad – 1976 Summer Olympics – Gold medal
1 Iida 2 Okamoto 3 Maeda 4 Matsuda 5 Shirai 6 Kato 7 Arakida 8 Kanesaka 9 Yoshida 10 Takayanagi 11 Yano 12 Yokoyama Coach: Yamada

v t e Japan squad – 1977 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Cup – Gold medal
Arakida Egami Kanesaka Maeda Matsuda Mizuhara Shirai Sudo Takayanagi Yano Yokoyama Yoshida Coach: Yamada

• 1952 births
• Living people
• Japanese women's volleyball players
• Japanese people of Korean descent
• Volleyball players at the 1972 Summer Olympics
• Volleyball players at the 1976 Summer Olympics
• Olympic volleyball players for Japan
• Olympic gold medalists for Japan
• Olympic silver medalists for Japan
• Naturalized citizens of Japan
• Sportspeople from Okayama
• Olympic medalists in volleyball
• Asian Games medalists in volleyball
• Volleyball players at the 1970 Asian Games
• Volleyball players at the 1974 Asian Games
• Medalists at the 1970 Asian Games
• Medalists at the 1974 Asian Games
• Asian Games gold medalists for Japan
• Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics
• Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics
• International Volleyball Hall of Fame inductees
• 20th-century Japanese sportswomen