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 The Asian Table Tennis Championships is a biennial table tennis tournament regarded as continental championships by International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). From 1952 to 1972, the tournament was organized by the Table Tennis Federation of As ...

. She also won a

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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 Dortmund (; Westphalian nds, Düörpm ; la, Tremonia) is the third-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne and Düsseldorf, and the eighth-largest city of Germany ...

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.

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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 {{SouthKorea-tabletennis-bio-stub

Table tennis career

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