Takako Shirai

Takako Shirai (白井貴子 Shirai Takako, Korean: 윤정순, Hanja: 尹貞順, Yoon Jeong-soon) is a Japanese former volleyball player of Korean ancestry. She is a two-time Olympian who was a member of the Japanese women's national volleyball team that won the gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. Shirai also helped Japan win the silver medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. She was an outside hitter.

Shirai became a key player in the rise of the Japanese women in the 1970s. She helped the Japanese women secure a gold medal at the 1974 FIVB World Championship in Mexico. She was also key in Japan's gold medal win at the 1977 FIVB World Cup in Japan.

In 2000, Shirai became an inductee of the International Volleyball Hall of Fame in Holyoke, Massachusetts.

National team 1972 — 2nd place in the Olympic Games of Munich 1974 — 1st place in the World Championship 1976 — 1st place in the Olympic Games of Montreal