Masanori Hayashi

Masanori Hayashi (born 9 November 1985 in Ube, Yamaguchi, nicknamed Nori) is a Japanese sepak takraw player. He won the JOC Junior Olympic Cup All Japan Junior Championship and its MVP award in 2005 and was picked for the national team that year, then won a regu team bronze at the King's Cup World Championship in Thailand, the first regu team placing for a Japanese delegation. He took regu team bronze at the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games, competed in 2014 at Incheon, and at the 2018 Jakarta-Palembang Asian Games won bronze in the doubles team event and silver in the quad event. Domestically he won the All Japan Championship in 2008 and the All Japan Open in 2016 and 2018. He became an under-23 development coach for the Japan Sepak Takraw Association in 2016, retired from the national team after the 2018 King's Cup, and has promoted the sport through events and lessons.