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Categories: Living people > People from Mie Prefecture > Japanese beach volleyball players > 1986 births

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Miwa Asao

Asao competing in Norway in 2008

Personal information

Full name

Miwa Asao

Born

2 February 1986 (age 23)
Suzuka, Mie, Japan

Height

1.72 m (5 ft 7¹⁄₂ in)^[1]

Weight

53 kg (120 lb)^[1]

Beach Volleyball information

Current teammate

Teammate
Takemi Nishibori

Miwa Asao (浅尾美和, Asao Miwa^?, born 2 February 1986, Suzuka, Mie) is a female Japanese beach volleyball player. Often referred to in media reports as the "pixie of beach volleyball" or simply "pixie of the beach" for her good looks, Asao has helped to popularize beach volleyball in Japan while herself becoming a national celebrity through her numerous appearances on television and in magazines and newspapers.^[2]^[3]