Aya Umemura
Aya Umemura ( Japanese 梅村 礼 , Umemura Aya ; born December 4, 1976 in Tomakomai , Hokkaidō ) is a Japanese table tennis player and a professional table tennis player who played for the TTC Langweid in the first German Bundesliga .
Life
Umemura started playing table tennis when she was seven. She graduated from Japanese high school and then became a professional table tennis player. In Japan she played for the teams Team Juroku-Bank and Team Nihonseimei. Later she was active in Sandonatese (Italy) and for TuS Holsterhausen (Essen) . Umemuara lives in Düsseldorf, where she works as an assistant trainer for the German Table Tennis Association . Between 2005 and 2007 and again since July 2010 she played in Germany for TTC Langweid. From 2012 she was employed as a trainer at the Werner Schlager Academy in Schwechat near Vienna. In 2014 she joined the Weiß-Rot-Weiß Kleve (2nd Bundesliga), in 2016 she moved to TUSEM Essen .
Sporting successes
Umemura reached the quarter-finals at the 2003 World Table Tennis Championships , won bronze with the Japanese team at the 2004 World Cup , was twice Japanese individual champion and eight times national champion with Japanese clubs. With the TTC Langweid she became German team champion in 2006 and 2007. In 2004 she was number eleven in the ITTF world rankings from March to May .
Results from the ITTF database
Association | event | year | place | country | singles | Double | Mixed | team |
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JPN | Asian Championship ATTU | 2003 | Bangkok | THA | Quarter finals | |||
JPN | Asian Cup | 2003 | Kitakyushu | JPN | 4th Place | |||
JPN | Asian Games | 2002 | Busan | COR | Quarter finals | Quarter finals | ||
JPN | Olympic games | 2004 | Athens | GRE | last 16 | Quarter finals | ||
JPN | Pro tour | 2007 | Stockholm | SWE | last 32 | |||
JPN | Pro tour | 2007 | Bremen | GER | last 32 | |||
JPN | Pro tour | 2007 | catfish | AUT | last 64 | last 16 | ||
JPN | Pro tour | 2007 | St. Petersburg | RUS | last 32 | Quarter finals | ||
JPN | Pro tour | 2007 | Seongnam | COR | last 32 | |||
JPN | Pro tour | 2007 | Salwa Cup | KUW | last 32 | last 16 | ||
JPN | Pro tour | 2007 | Doha | QAT | last 64 | last 16 | ||
JPN | Pro tour | 2007 | Velenje | SVN | last 64 | |||
JPN | Pro tour | 2006 | Warsaw | POLE | Semifinals | Quarter finals | ||
JPN | Pro tour | 2006 | Bayreuth | GER | last 64 | Quarter finals | ||
JPN | Pro tour | 2006 | Santiago | CHI | last 16 | Quarter finals | ||
JPN | Pro tour | 2006 | São Paulo | BRA | last 16 | last 16 | ||
JPN | Pro tour | 2006 | Taipei | TPE | last 32 | |||
JPN | Pro tour | 2006 | Jeonju | COR | last 16 | |||
JPN | Pro tour | 2006 | Doha | QAT | last 32 | Quarter finals | ||
JPN | Pro tour | 2006 | Zagreb | HRV | last 64 | |||
JPN | Pro tour | 2005 | Gothenburg | SWE | last 32 | |||
JPN | Pro tour | 2005 | Magdeburg | GER | last 32 | Quarter finals | ||
JPN | Pro tour | 2005 | Yokohama | JPN | last 16 | Quarter finals | ||
JPN | Pro tour | 2005 | Doha | QAT | last 32 | Quarter finals | ||
JPN | Pro tour | 2005 | Zagreb | HRV | last 16 | Semifinals | ||
JPN | Pro tour | 2004 | Aarhus | THE | Quarter finals | Semifinals | ||
JPN | Pro tour | 2004 | Kobe | JPN | last 16 | last 16 | ||
JPN | Pro tour | 2004 | Rio de Janeiro | BRA | Quarter finals | last 16 | ||
JPN | Pro tour | 2004 | Singapore | SIN | last 32 | Quarter finals | ||
JPN | Pro tour | 2004 | Pyeongchang | COR | last 32 | Quarter finals | ||
JPN | Pro tour | 2004 | Athens | GRE | Quarter finals | Quarter finals | ||
JPN | Pro tour | 2004 | Croatia | HRV | Semifinals | last 16 | ||
JPN | Pro tour | 2003 | Bremen | GER | last 64 | Semifinals | ||
JPN | Pro tour | 2003 | Kobe | JPN | Quarter finals | Semifinals | ||
JPN | Pro tour | 2003 | Jeju-Si | COR | last 32 | Semifinals | ||
JPN | Pro tour | 2003 | Rio | BRA | silver | silver | ||
JPN | Pro tour | 2003 | Croatia | HRV | last 32 | last 16 | ||
JPN | Pro tour | 2002 | Warsaw | POLE | last 16 | Quarter finals | ||
JPN | Pro tour | 2002 | Eindhoven | NED | Semifinals | last 16 | ||
JPN | Pro tour | 2002 | Magdeburg | GER | last 32 | Quarter finals | ||
JPN | Pro tour | 2002 | Kobe | JPN | Semifinals | Semifinals | ||
JPN | Pro tour | 2002 | São Paulo | BRA | gold | Semifinals | ||
JPN | Pro tour | 2002 | Fort Lauderdale | United States | last 32 | Semifinals | ||
JPN | Pro tour | 2002 | Qingdao City | CHN | last 16 | |||
JPN | Pro tour | 2002 | Courmayeur | ITA | last 16 | gold | ||
JPN | Pro tour | 2002 | Doha | QAT | last 16 | last 16 | ||
JPN | Pro tour | 2001 | Farum | THE | silver | |||
JPN | Pro tour | 2001 | Yokohama | JPN | last 16 | Quarter finals | ||
JPN | Pro tour | 2001 | Fort Lauderdale | United States | silver | Semifinals | ||
JPN | Pro tour | 2001 | São Paulo | BRA | gold | Semifinals | ||
JPN | Pro tour | 2001 | Zagreb | HRV | last 32 | last 16 | ||
JPN | Pro tour | 2000 | Umeå | SWE | Rd 1 | last 16 | ||
JPN | Pro tour | 2000 | Warsaw | POLE | last 16 | Rd 1 | ||
JPN | Pro tour | 2000 | Rio de Janeiro | BRA | Rd 1 | last 16 | ||
JPN | Pro tour | 2000 | Fort Lauderdale | United States | Rd 1 | last 16 | ||
JPN | Pro tour | 2000 | Kobe City | JPN | Rd 1 | Quarter finals | ||
JPN | Pro tour | 1999 | Guilin | CHN | last 32 | last 16 | ||
JPN | Pro tour | 1999 | Zagreb | HRV | last 16 | Rd 1 | ||
JPN | Pro tour | 1999 | Hopton-on-Sea | CLOSELY | Rd 1 | Rd 1 | ||
JPN | Pro tour | 1998 | Houston | United States | last 16 | gold | ||
JPN | Pro tour | 1998 | Wakayama | JPN | last 32 | Quarter finals | ||
JPN | Pro tour | 1997 | Lyon | FRA | last 32 | Quarter finals | ||
JPN | Pro tour | 1997 | Squid | SWE | Rd 1 | Rd 1 | ||
JPN | Pro tour | 1997 | Zhuhai | CHN | Rd 1 | |||
JPN | Pro tour | 1997 | Chiba | JPN | last 16 | Rd 1 | ||
JPN | Pro tour | 1997 | Ipoh | MAS | last 32 | last 16 | ||
JPN | Pro tour | 1997 | Melbourne | OUT | last 32 | last 16 | ||
JPN | Pro Tour Grand Finals | 2003 | Guangzhou | CHN | last 16 | Quarter finals | ||
JPN | Pro Tour Grand Finals | 2002 | Stockholm | SWE | last 16 | Quarter finals | ||
JPN | Pro Tour Grand Finals | 2001 | Hainan | CHN | Quarter finals | |||
JPN | World Championship | 2005 | Shanghai | CHN | last 64 | last 16 | last 64 | |
JPN | World Championship | 2004 | Doha | QAT | 3 | |||
JPN | World Championship | 2003 | Paris | FRA | last 64 | Quarter finals | ||
JPN | World Championship | 2001 | Osaka | JPN | last 64 | last 16 | no participants | |
JPN | World Championship | 1997 | Manchester | CLOSELY | last 128 | last 32 | last 64 | |
JPN | World Championship | 1995 | Tianjin | CHN | last 128 | last 64 | Agony | |
JPN | World cup | 2003 | Hong Kong | HKG | 9-12 space |
Individual evidence
- ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2012/4 page 7
- ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2014/6 page 23
- ↑ DTS magazine , 2016/6 page 25
- ↑ ITTF world rankings ( memento of the original from July 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on April 22, 2012)
- ↑ Aya Umemura results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed April 22, 2012)
literature
- Annual journal 2011/2012 of the TTC Langweid, "Profile" about Umemura, page 14
Web links
- Oliver Reiser: Aya Umemura returns to TC Langweid, in: Augsburger Allgemeine, March 11, 2010
- Aya Umemura in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Umemura, Aya |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 梅村 礼 (Japanese) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese table tennis player |
DATE OF BIRTH | 4th December 1976 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Tomakomai , Hokkaidō |