was an 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 1961 to 1965 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.
Her eight World Championship medals included four
gold medal
A gold medal is a medal awarded for highest achievement in a non-military field. Its name derives from the use of at least a fraction of gold in form of plating or alloying in its manufacture.
Since the eighteenth century, gold medals have bee ...
s; two in team event, one in the doubles with
Kimiyo Matsuzaki
Kimiyo Matsuzaki (Japanese: 松崎キミ代, born June 18, 1938 in Takase, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan) is a former international table tennis player from Japan.
Table tennis career
From 1959 to 1963 she won many medals in singles, doubles, and te ...
at the
1963 World Table Tennis Championships and 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 ...
at the
1965 World Table Tennis Championships.
She died at the age of 77 on September 18, 2019.
元世界チャンピオンの両澤正子さんが逝去
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
Japanese female table tennis players
Asian Games medalists in table tennis
Table tennis players at the 1962 Asian Games
2019 deaths
Year of birth missing
Place of birth missing
Asian Games gold medalists for Japan
Asian Games bronze medalists for Japan
Medalists at the 1962 Asian Games
1940s births
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