Contrary to many other countries constantly launching “volleyball dinosaurs” with terrible height, Japan until now there is a young star expected to be able to reach the world level.
It was Miku Akimoto, a 16 -year -old athlete and was part of the Japanese U19 volleyball team that had just won the fourth place at the 2023 World Championship.
Miku Akimoto became the best score tree in the tournament with 170 points including 149 attack points. This is the figure that is statistical before the last match of the teams at the tournament.
The young girl is the No. 1 star of Japan U19, becoming a “team” and the obsession of the opponents. Although she was only 16 years old, she was completely prominent compared to her teammates.
It has been a long time since Japan has found a promising star and an impressive height of 1.85m like that. The most successful young star over the years, Miyu Ishikawa has only a modest height of 1.74m.
Only with good height dams helps Japan narrow the gap with top teams such as the US, China, Italy, Türkiye or Serbia … and Miku Akimoto is that hope.
Few people know Miku Akimoto is the daughter of the Japanese women's volleyball star for a while – the assistant Akimoto. Who Akimoto is in the Japanese squad to win the London 2012 Olympic Games and the 2010 World Championship Medal.
Sharing with the press, Miku Akimoto said her mother advised her to follow volleyball but the two did not talk much about it. She is hoping to assert herself in the near future.
This summer, Miku Akimoto also became the youngest name that was summoned into the Japanese national team and was expected to be able to win the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.