At the age of 72, Japan’s Olympic gold medalist and world champion Sata Isobe passed away.
Isobe was apart of the gold medal winning Japan team when volleyball made its Olympic debut at the Tokyo 1964 Games. At the time she was 20 years of age, the youngest on the team.
Two years prior to the Olympic Games, Isobe played for Japan in the 1962 World Championship in Moscow.
Isobe retired from volleyball in 1965, just one year after winning Olympic Gold in Tokyo.
On Sunday evening, Isobe was rushed to the hospital after a domestic accident, but passed away, according to her 49-year-old son Shigemori Maruyama who was a swimmer for Japan at the Seoul 1988 Olympic Games.
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