is a Japanese table tennis player. Her father is Japanese, and her mother is a table tennis player from China. At the age of 18, she made the national team which won a silver medal at the

2016 World Team Table Tennis Championships The 2016 World Team Table Tennis Championships was held in Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia from 28 February to 6 March 2016. Seeding The top sixteen teams of the first division and the top two teams of the second division at the 2014 World Team ...

. She also won gold at the women's doubles at the

2016 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals The 2016 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals was the final competition of the 2016 ITTF World Tour, the International Table Tennis Federation's professional table tennis world tour. It was the 21st edition of the competition, and was held from 8–11 Dec ...

with

Hina Hayata is a Japanese international table tennis player. She is the most successful player on the ITTF Challenge Series since its inception in 2017. Owing to her stature, she is able to generate powerful spins on both wings more so than most female pla ...

Association change

In 2019, Hamamoto registered with the Austrian Table Tennis Association with hopes to acquire Austrian nationality. According to her family, she did so to continue to play internationally as it had been hard for her to make the Japanese national team again.

In popular culture

Hamamoto appeared in the 2017 film ''

Mixed Doubles Mixed doubles or mixed pairs is a form of mixed-sex sports that consists of teams of one man and one woman. This variation of competition is prominent in curling and racket sports, such as tennis, table tennis and badminton (where it is known as ...

''.

References

1998 births Living people Japanese female table tennis players Sportspeople from Osaka Japanese sportspeople of Chinese descent Kinoshita Abyell Kanagawa players {{Japan-tabletennis-bio-stub