is a former

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

In 1969 and 1971 she won three 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 men ...

. The three World Championship medals included two

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s; one in the Corbillon Cup (women's team event) and one in the doubles with

Nobuhiko Hasegawa was one of the best table tennis players worldwide from 1966 to 1974. Table tennis career From 1966 until 1974 he won five gold medals at world championships and two golds at the Asian Games. In total he won ten World Championship medals Hi ...

at the

1969 World Table Tennis Championships The 1969 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Munich from April 17 to April 27, 1969. It was the 30th edition to be contested. During the Cultural Revolution, Chinese sports professionals were denounced as 'Sprouts of Revisionism and we ...

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Japanese female table tennis players Aichi Institute of Technology alumni {{Japan-tabletennis-bio-stub

Table tennis career

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