Masako Kondo
Japanese volleyball player
Masako Kondo (近藤 雅子, Kondō Masako; born 27 March 1941) is a Japanese volleyball player and Olympic champion. She was a member of the Japanese winning team, Oriental Witches, at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
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