Katsuhiro Shiratori

Katsuhiro Shiratori (Japanese白鸟 胜 浩, Katsuhiro Shiratori, born October 29, 1976 in Ōta ) is a Japanese beach volleyball player.

Career

Shiratori 1999 played in his first Acapulco Open tournament of the FIVB World Tour with Shoji Setoyama. In 2001, he formed a duo with Satoshi Watanabe, each of which reached the 17th place in Stavanger and Espinho. At the World Championships in Klagenfurt Shiratori / Wanabe lost both group games and eliminated after the first round of. The following year they achieved their best result again in Espinho Open ( rank 17). In 2003, she did not come on the World Poker Tour on the 25th square. In the preliminary round of the World Cup in Rio de Janeiro, they succeeded in the first game victory against the French Canet / Hamel. Nevertheless they departed as one of the worst group of third party prematurely. At the World Tour 2004 came at the Open tournaments in Cape Town and Carolina in ninth place in the top ten.

2005 Shiratori played with Taichi Morikawa. The duo scored best result a 25th place in Shanghai. At the World Championships in Berlin Shiratori / Morikawa was defeated in the first game of the Chinese Xu Qiang / Xu Linyin. On the losing side of the double - elimination system then they lost out against the Dutch Ronnes / de Gruijter and excreted. In Salvador da Bahia Shiratori formed a duo for the first time with Koichi Nishimura. 2006 managed Shiratori / Nishimura as Seventh Marseille Open their best common result.

For the last 2006 tournament in Acapulco Shiratori has performed with his new partner Kentaro Asahi. Asahi / Shiratori were fourth the Marseille Open after two ninth places at the World Tour. Little success was the appearance at the World Championships in Gstaad. There, the Japanese met in the preliminary round, inter alia, the defending champion Fabio Luiz / Marcio Araujo from Brazil and recorded in only three games a set profit. In 2008 she qualified for the Olympic Games in Beijing. There she achieved despite the defeat against the Germans Brink / Dieckmann a second group the second round, where they were beaten by the Brazilian silver medalists at the World Championships as before. The last tournament of the year ended Asahi / Shiratori as well as the first open tournament 2009 at the ninth. In the further course of the year they came up to the 17th place. The same result, there was at the Brasília Open 2010. Otherwise, the duo succeeded no more front placement.

2011 Asahi initially played four tournaments with Keisuke Imai, before he again got together with Asahi in the Asia Cup and finished fifth. 2012 took Asahi / Shiratori in London for the second time in an Olympic tournament. More than one set win against the Czechs Benes / Kubala they succeeded not in the group, so that they had to leave after the first round.