Full name Kentaro Asahi Weight 95 kg Height 1.99 m | Role Beach Volleyball Player Name Kentaro Asahi | |
 | ||
Born September 19, 1975 (age 48)
Japan ( 1975-09-19 ) Olympic medals Beach volleyball at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament Similar People Katsuhiro Shiratori, Koichi Nishimura, Yoichi Kato, Miwa Asao, Todd Rogers | ||
Volleyball Workshop in Bhutan by Kentaro Asahi
Kentaro Asahi (朝日健太郎, Asahi Kentarō, born September 19, 1975) is a Japanese professional beach volleyball player and politician. He was born in Kumamoto, Kumamoto Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan.
Contents
Asahi played as a center for the Japan men's national volleyball team in the 1990s. He ended up in sixteenth place at the 1998 World Championship, and later on started a career in beach volleyball. Asahi and teammate Katsuhiro Shiratori represented Japan in beach volleyball at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics.
Asahi began to work for IT company Forval Corporation in 2011 through a Japanese Olympic Committee athlete hiring program.
In July 2016, Asahi was elected as a member of the House of Councillors representing the Tokyo at-large district for the Liberal Democratic Party.