is a former
Japanese
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* Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia
* Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan
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** Japanese diaspor ...
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.
Table tennis career
She won a
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 ...
at the
1975 World Table Tennis Championships in the doubles with
Maria Alexandru
Maria Alexandru (née Golopența) (born 30 December 1939 in Plugova) is a former Romanian table tennis player.
Table tennis career
From 1957 to 1980 she won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the Table Tennis European Champi ...
.
In addition to the gold she also won a
bronze medal
A bronze medal in sports and other similar areas involving competition is a medal made of bronze awarded to the third-place finisher of contests or competitions such as the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, etc. The outright winner receive ...
in the team events of 1975 and 1979 for Japan.
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
Living people
Japanese female table tennis players
Asian Games medalists in table tennis
Table tennis players at the 1974 Asian Games
Medalists at the 1974 Asian Games
Asian Games bronze medalists for Japan
World Table Tennis Championships medalists
Year of birth missing (living people)
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