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| Izumi Maple Reds | |||
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| Full name | Izumi Maple Reds | ||
| Short name | Maple Reds | ||
| Founded | 1994 | ||
| Arena | Hiroshima Green Arena | ||
| Capacity | 10,000 | ||
| League | Japan Handball League | ||
| 2018-19 | 2nd | ||
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| Website Official site | |||
Hiroshima Maple Reds is a women's handball team based in Hiroshima, Japan. It plays in the Japan Handball League. The club was founded in 1994 and belonged to IZUMI, a supermarket company in Hiroshima. The club was dissolved in 2001, then reinstated as HIROSHIMA MAPLE REDS by the Hiroshima Women's Sports Club (NPO).
From 1994 to 2006, the club has won the championships of Japan Handball League and others for 24 times in Japan. They won the 1st prize at the Second East Asian Handball Club Championship in 2005 in Suzhou, China. And the 3rd prize at the First in Seongnam, Korea and the 4th prize at the third in Kyoto, Japan. They won the 2nd prize at the 12th Hiroshima International Handball Games in 2007. [1]
In April 2019 they were rebranded as the Izumi Maple Reds and did not play the 2020 season due to coronavirus concerns.
Team
Current squad
- Squad for the 2019-20 season. [2]
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Former players
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O-Kyung Lim - Head Coach, CP -
Akane Aoto - Coach -
Aimi Kiyama - CP
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Miho Tsuboi -CP
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Emi Sakaguchi -CP
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Jin-Soon Kim - CP
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Sung-Ok Oh - CP
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Emiko Egashira - GK
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Tone Hashizume
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Emi Sugimoto
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Miho Iwamoto
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Yukari Asai
References
- ^ results of games Archived 2009-04-28 at the Wayback Machine on "maplereds.net"
- ^ "Izumi Maple Reds - Team Information". jhlhandball.jp.