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Ichiko Sato

Japanese volleyball player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 26, 2025
Entity authorityQ5986205 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ichiko Sato (佐藤 伊知子, Satō Ichiko; born 11 March 1965) is a Japanese former volleyball player who competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul and 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. In 1988, she finished fourth with the Japanese team in the Olympic tournament. Four years later, she finished fifth with the Japanese team in the 1992 Olympic tournament.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Ichiko Sato” as japanese volleyball player. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Ichiko, Sato and Japanese.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1965, 1988, 1992—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1965-03-11. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Ichiko, Sato and Japanese providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Ichiko Sato”, the useful work is to connect “japanese volleyball player” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 26, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5986205. VIAF identifies the subject as 255164194. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1965, 1988 and 1992.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ichiko Sato” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.