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Full name | Mai Yamaguchi | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname | Yume, Pearl | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1983-07-03) July 3, 1983 (age 40) Shima, Mie, Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 176 cm (5 ft 9 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 62 kg (137 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Spike | 308 cm (121 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Block | 300 cm (118 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Position | Wing Spiker/Middle Blocker | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Current club | Retired | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mai Yamaguchi (山口 舞 Yamaguchi Mai, born July 3, 1983) is a former Japanese volleyball player who played for Okayama Seagulls. She was part of Japan's 2012 bronze medal-winning team.[2]
Mai participated in the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship, which was her last international tournament with the national team. She announced retiredment from volleyball player in 2019.[3][4]
Her nickname is "Yume", which means "dream" in Japanese. Another nickname is Pearl, which is locally farmed specialty of her hometown of Shima, in Mie prefecture. She liked knitting and cooking at the time of her bronze medal and she also enjoyed figure skating.[5]
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