Hiroe Amano is a former

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 of

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

. Hiroe won several international and national titles in the 1960s. She was among the most notable of a cadre of fine players who helped Japan to win 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) competitions in 1966 and in 1969. In 1978 she was the coach of the successful Japanese Uber Cup team.Pat Davis, The ''Guinness Book of Badminton'' (Enfield, Middlesex, England: Guinness Superlative Ltd., 1983) 133-136.

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Living people Japanese female badminton players Asian Games medalists in badminton Badminton players at the 1966 Asian Games Asian Games gold medalists for Japan Asian Games silver medalists for Japan Medalists at the 1966 Asian Games 1943 births 20th-century Japanese women {{Japan-badminton-bio-stub