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

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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

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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 {{Japan-tabletennis-bio-stub

Table tennis career

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