is a former international

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player from Japan.

Table tennis career

From 1964 to 1967 she won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the

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and in the

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. The seven World Championship medals included two

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s in the singles at the

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and team event at the

1967 World Table Tennis Championships The 1967 World Table Tennis Championships were held at the Johanneshovs Isstadion in Stockholm from April 11 to April 21, 1967. During the Cultural Revolution, Chinese sports professionals were denounced as 'Sprouts of Revisionism' and were de ...

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About Naoko Fukatsu
1944 births Living people Japanese female table tennis players People from Okazaki, Aichi Asian Games medalists in table tennis Table tennis players at the 1966 Asian Games Asian Games gold medalists for Japan Medalists at the 1966 Asian Games {{Japan-tabletennis-bio-stub

Table tennis career

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