Saeko Hirota ( ja, 広田 佐枝子) 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 1967 to 1969, she won several medals in 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 four World Championship medals included two
gold medals in the doubles with
Sachiko Morisawa
Sachiko Morisawa (; born 1945) is a former international table tennis player from Japan.
Table tennis career
From 1967 to 1969, she won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the World Table Tennis Championships and in the Asia ...
and the team event at the
1967 World Table Tennis Championships.
See also
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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 ...
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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
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