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
Japan.
Table tennis career
From 1959 to 1963 she won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the
World Table Tennis Championships
The World Table Tennis Championships are table tennis competitions sanctioned by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). The World Championships have been held since 1926, biennially since 1957. Five individual events, which include m ...
and in the
Asian Table Tennis Championships.
The six World Championship medals included five
gold medals; one in the women's doubles with
Taeko Namba in 1959, one in the mixed doubles with
Koji Kimura
is a retired Japanese table tennis player and coach who won four world titles between 1961 and 1967. He is left-handed.
Table tennis career
He won nine World Championship medals included four gold medals; one in the doubles with Nobuya Hoshino ...
in 1963 and three in the team event.
See also
*
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 is ...
*
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
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 gold medalists for Japan
Asian Games silver medalists for Japan
Asian Games bronze medalists for Japan
Medalists at the 1958 Asian Games
Medalists at the 1962 Asian Games
Year of birth missing (living people)
Japanese female table tennis players
{{Japan-tabletennis-bio-stub