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Yuki Miyazawa (宮澤 夕貴, Miyazawa Yuki; born 2 June 1993) is a Japanese professional basketball player for the Fujitsu Red Wave of the Women's Japan Basketball League (WJBL). She represented Japan in the basketball competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio and won a silver medal with the Japanese national team at the 2020 Summer Olympics, held in Tokyo, Japan. Her nickname is Earth (アース), referring to a high school teacher telling her that she wanted her to grow as big as the earth, and also taking the first and last characters of Amaterasu (Ōmikami), the Sun Goddess.

Source: “Yuki Miyazawa”, English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), excerpt