Choi Kyung-Ja also Choi Kyong-ja is a former international
table tennis
Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...
player from
South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...
.
Table tennis career
From 1957 to 1964 she won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the
Asian Table Tennis Championships
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. She also won a
silver medal
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in the Corbillon Cup (women's team event) at the
1959 World Table Tennis Championships
The 1959 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Dortmund
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with
Cho Kyung-Cha
Cho Kyung-ja is a former international table tennis player from South Korea.
Table tennis career
She won a silver medal at the 1959 World Table Tennis Championships, in the Corbillon Cup (women's team event) for South Korea with Lee Chong-Hi, ...
,
Hwang Yool-ja and
Lee Chong-Hi.
See also
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List of table tennis players
This list of table tennis players is alphabetically ordered by surname. The main source of the information included in this page is the official International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) database. More detailed information about their careers i ...
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List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists
Results of individual events
The tables below are medalists of individual events (men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles and mixed).
Men's singles
Medal table
Women's singles
The champion of women's singles in 1937 was declared ...
References
South Korean female table tennis players
Year of birth missing (living people)
Asian Games medalists in table tennis
Table tennis players at the 1958 Asian Games
Table tennis players at the 1962 Asian Games
Asian Games silver medalists for South Korea
Asian Games bronze medalists for South Korea
Medalists at the 1958 Asian Games
Medalists at the 1962 Asian Games
Possibly living people
20th-century South Korean women
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