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International Volleyball Hall induction week: Katsutoshi Nekoda of Japan
Olympics
Tom Feuer
October 16, 2023
It’s induction week at the International Volleyball Hall of Fame in Holyoke, Massachusetts.
Six inductees will join the previous 161 players, coaches, administrators and leaders from 25 countries who have already been enshrined in the museum at the birthplace of volleyball at the ceremony Saturday.
Katsutoshi nekoda biography of alberta
We have stories on all six, continuing with Katsutoshi Nekoda from Japan:
Shortly before the 1972 Olympics,Japanese setter Katsutoshi Nekoda went down with a devastating broken leg. Undeterred, Nekoda called his coach, asked him to bring a volleyball to the hospital, and in a wheelchair, Nekoda practiced his craft over and over again.
And then some.
It paid off.
Later that summer at the Munich Games, with Nekoda at the helm, Japan went undefeated in seven matches, losing only three sets total, to capture the Olympic gold medal.
Such is the legend of Katsutoshi