Tomie Nishimura
Tomie Nishimura 
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| Date of birth: | circa 1933 |
| Playing hand: | Left handed |
| How to play: | Penholder |
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Tomie Nishimura ( Japanese 西村 登 美 江 , Nishimura Tomie , married Tomie Sawada ( 沢 田 登 美 江 , Sawada Tomie ); * approx. 1933) is a Japanese table tennis player . In 1952 she became world champion in doubles and team competitions.
Career
Tomie Nishimura won the Japanese Championship in singles in 1951, in 1950 and 1951 in doubles with Reiko Ishihara and in 1952 in mixed with Toshihiko Honjō. She took part in the World Championships in 1952, 1955 and 1956. She achieved her greatest success at the 1952 World Cup in Bombay when she became world champion in doubles with Shizuka Narahara . They defeated the English Diane Rowe / Rosalind Rowe in the final . In addition, Shizuka Narahara won another gold medal with the Japanese team.
At the Asian Championships in 1953 she won doubles with Reiko Ishihara and in the team competition, in mixed with Tadaki Hayashi she reached the final. In the ITTF world rankings she was led in October 1952 in fifth place.
Private
Tomie Nishimura supported her sick mother and brother when she was young; her parents could not give her a school leaving certificate.
Results from the ITTF database
| Association | event | year | place | country | singles | Double | Mixed | team |
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| JPN | Asian Championship TTFA | 1953 | Tokyo | JPN | Quarter finals | gold | silver | 1 |
| JPN | World Championship | 1952 | Bombay | IND | Quarter finals | gold | last 32 | 1 |
Individual evidence
- ↑ 中 日 卓 球 友好 試 合 . In: 北京 周報 ( Peking Rundschau ) . No. 39 , September 26, 1972, p. 6–7 ( online ( memento from August 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive )).
- ↑ 1952 was 19 years old according to The story of Tomie and Shizuka in: Table Tennis, November 1953, page 43 (accessed August 15, 2014)
- ↑ ITTF world rankings from 1947 to 2001 (Excel; 171 kB) (accessed on August 15, 2014)
- ↑ Tomie Nishimura results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed August 15, 2014)
Web links
- The story of Tomie and Shizuka in: Table Tennis, November 1953, pages 43-44 (accessed August 15, 2014)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Nishimura, Tomie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 西村 登 美 江 (Japanese); Sawada Tomie (married name); 沢 田 登 美 江 (Japanese, married name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese table tennis player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1933 |