Koichi Nishimura

Koichi "Nishi" Nishimura (born 30 June 1973 in Kyoto, Japan) is a beach volleyball player from Japan. Nishimura began his career as an indoor volleyball player and played Libero for the Japanese National Team. In 2002 Nishimura switched to beach volleyball. He currently plays in "Winds" beach volleyball team. In 2009, Nishimura founded the environmental non-profit-organisation "Save the Beach".

They were the fourth ranked team at the 2006 Asian Games but were eliminated in the fourth round.

He married volleyball player Kaoru Sugayama in 2011. Provided by Wikipedia