Tomi Ōkawa

Tomi Ōkawa ( Japanese 大川 と み , Ōkawa Tomi , married Tomi Okada ( 岡田 と み , Okada Tomi ); born February 26, 1933 in Mitsukaidō (today: Jōsō ), Ibaraki Prefecture ) is a former Japanese table tennis player . At the table tennis world championship in 1956 , she became the first Japanese woman to win the women's singles title. She won another two gold medals with the Japanese team. At the Japanese national championships, she was only able to win the women's singles title once (1959), but won five mixed doubles.

successes

Table tennis world championship 1956

• 3rd place team
• 1st place women singles
• 3rd place women's doubles (with Yoshiko Tanaka - JPN)

Table tennis world championship 1957

• 1st place team

Table tennis world championship 1961

• 1st place team

Asian Games 1958

• 1st place team
• 3rd place mixed

Asian Games 1960

• 1st place team

Japanese National Championships

• 1959 1st place women singles

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
JPN	Asian Championship TTFA	1953	Tokyo	JPN	last 16	Quarter finals
JPN	Asian Games	1958	Tokyo	JPN			Semifinals	1
JPN	World Championship	1961	Beijing	CHN	last 64	last 16	last 64	1
JPN	World Championship	1957	Stockholm	SWE	Quarter finals	Quarter finals	last 64	1
JPN	World Championship	1956	Tokyo	JPN	gold	Semifinals	Quarter finals	3

Web links

• Curriculum vitae at the table tennis association Jōsō (Chinese) ( Memento from September 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed October 8, 2012)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tomi Ōkawa Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 13, 2011)