Himawari Akaho
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| No. 88 – Denso Iris | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Shooting guard | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| League | WJBL | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 28 August 1998 Ishikawa, Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Japanese | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Listed height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Listed weight | 157 lb (71 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Himawari Akaho (赤穂 ひまわり, Akaho Himawari, born 28 August 1998) is a Japanese basketball player for Denso Iris and the Japanese national team.[1] She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, winning a silver medal.[2][3]
Career
[edit]She participated at the 2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Asian Basketball Main Page". asia-basket. Retrieved 2018-12-25.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Himawari AKAHO at the Tokyo 2020 Women's Olympic Basketball Tournament 2020". FIBA.basketball. Retrieved 2021-08-13.
- ^ "Basketball AKAHO Himawari". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 2021-10-15. Retrieved 2021-08-13.
- ^ "Himawari Akaho (Jpn)'s profile - FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup 2018". FIBA.basketball. Retrieved 2018-12-25.
External links
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Categories:
- 1998 births
- Living people
- Basketball players at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Basketball players at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Japanese women's basketball players
- Olympic basketball players for Japan
- Shooting guards
- Sportspeople from Ishikawa Prefecture
- Olympic medalists in basketball
- Olympic silver medalists for Japan
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- 21st-century Japanese sportswomen
- Denso Iris players
- Medalists at the 2022 Asian Games
- Asian Games medalists in basketball
- Asian Games silver medalists for Japan