Japan Gold Medalist Sata Isobe Passes Away At 72

  0 Carly DeMarque | December 19th, 2016 | News

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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Carly DeMarque

Carly DeMarque has been involved with competitive volleyball for the majority of her life, playing competitively at the club and collegiate level for 15 years and coaching club for five. Now a retired Division I volleyball athlete out of McNeese State University, she continues her volleyball enthusiasm by stepping back into …

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