(formerly Etsuko Takenaka) is a retired Japanese
badminton
Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per side) and "doubles" (with two players pe ...
player noted for her consistency and impassive demeanor, who won numerous international titles during the 1970s. Along with her contemporaries
Hiroe Yuki (Niinuma) and
Noriko Takagi (Nakayama), she is one of three Japanese women to have won both singles (1970) and doubles (1972, 1973, 1975, 1977) at the prestigious
All-England Championships. These three helped Japan to dominate the
Uber Cup
The Uber Cup, sometimes called the World Women's Team Championships, is a major international badminton competition contested by women's national badminton teams. First held in 1956–1957 and contested at three year intervals, it has been contes ...
(women's world team) competition from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s. In
1977
Events January
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Mrs. Toganoo won the women's doubles with
Emiko Ueno
is a retired female badminton player of Japan, who specialized in doubles.
Career
In 1977 she won both the All-England Championships and IBF World Championships in women's doubles with Etsuko Toganoo. In 1978 she was a member of Japan's world ...
at the first
IBF World Championships
The BWF World Championships, formerly known as IBF World Championships, and also known as the World Badminton Championships, is a badminton tournament sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF). The tournament is one of the most prestigious ...
.
[Davis, 109.]
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Japanese female badminton players
Asian Games medalists in badminton
Badminton players at the 1970 Asian Games
Badminton players at the 1974 Asian Games
Asian Games gold medalists for Japan
Asian Games bronze medalists for Japan
Medalists at the 1970 Asian Games
Medalists at the 1974 Asian Games
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