is a

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 from

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. Yonekura won the gold in women's singles of the badminton tournament in the 1998 Bangkok Asian Games, by defeating

Gong Zhichao Gong Zhichao (; born 15 December 1977) is a former badminton player from the People's Republic of China. Career Gong was one of the world's leading women's singles players between her first international titles in 1996 and her retirement in 20 ...

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in the final. She played

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, losing to

Camilla Martin Camilla Martin Nygaard (née Martin; born 23 March 1974) is a retired badminton player from Denmark. She and Lene Køppen, who played two decades earlier, are the only Danish women to have won both the All England and World Championships single ...

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in the round of 32.

Achievements

Asian Games

Women's singles

Asian Championships

Women's singles

World University Championships

Women's singles Women's doubles

IBF World Grand Prix

The World Badminton Grand Prix has been sanctioned by the International Badminton Federation since 1983. Women's singles

BWF International Challenge/Series

Women's singles :

BWF International Challenge The BWF International Challenge is a grade 3 and level 1 tournament part of Continental Circuit of BWF tournaments along with International Series (level 2) and Future Series (level 3), sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007. ...

tournament :

BWF International Series The BWF International Series is a grade 3 and level 2 tournament part of Continental Circuit of BWF tournaments along with International Challenge (level 1) and Future Series (level 3), sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007. ...

tournament

References

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1976 births Living people Japanese female badminton players Olympic badminton players of Japan Badminton players at the 2000 Summer Olympics Badminton players at the 2004 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Tokyo Metropolis People from Kodaira, Tokyo Asian Games medalists in badminton Badminton players at the 1998 Asian Games Badminton players at the 2002 Asian Games Badminton players at the 2006 Asian Games Asian Games gold medalists for Japan Asian Games silver medalists for Japan Asian Games bronze medalists for Japan Medalists at the 1998 Asian Games Medalists at the 2006 Asian Games {{Japan-badminton-bio-stub