Toshiko Kowada

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Toshiko Kowada ( Japanese 小 和田 敏 子 , Kowada Toshiko ; * 1949 ), married Takeuchi ( 竹 内 ), is a former Japanese table tennis player . In 1969 she became world champion in singles.

Style of play

Toshiko Kowada acted as an offensive player, but security was almost everything. So she wore down opposing defenders not through the force of their strokes or their spin, but above all through the fact that she simply didn't make any mistakes in her controlled topspins. Even against other offensive players, she survived her control-oriented style of play - answered topspin with topspin, hard strokes with a safe blocking technique.

Sporting successes

When she first took part in a World Cup in Munich in 1969 , which China did not play, Toshiko Kowada won the individual final against GDR player Gabriele Geißler and thus became world champion. She also won bronze in mixed with Shigeo Itō and with the Japanese women's team. At the next World Cup in 1971 in Nagoya, she won gold with the team. In the individual she was eliminated in the round of the last 16. In doubles and mixed, the quarterfinals were the final destination.

At the Asian Championships ( Asian Championship TTFA ) she came in 1968 in doubles (with Sachiko Morisawa ), mixed and with the team in the final. In 1970 she won the individual and mixed competition (with Nobuhiko Hasegawa ), with the team she came second.

In 1969 and 1970 she was ranked number one in the ITTF world rankings .

job

Since their marriage, Kowada has been working under the name Toshiko Takeuchi . She works as a professor of sports and health care at Chūkyō University . Together with co-authors, she published various research results, such as:

  • Physiological approach to measuring the degree of exitement of spectastors
  • Effect of the 40 mm diameter ball on table tennis rallies
  • Effects of Habitual Smoking on Cardiorespiratory Responses to Sub-Maximal Exercise
  • Dietary Restriction: Effects of Repeated Short-term Fasting on Allergic Inflammation

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
JPN  Asian Championship TTFA  1970  Nagoya  JPN   gold    gold  2
JPN  Asian Championship TTFA  1968  Jakarta  INA   Semifinals  silver  silver  2
JPN  World Championship  1971  Nagoya  JPN   last 16  Quarter finals  Quarter finals  1
JPN  World Championship  1969  Munich  FRG   gold  last 16  Semifinals  3

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Year of birth 1949 according to the article in the Japanese language Wikipedia. According to Tim Boggan ( Tim Boggan ) it was in 1969 "21 years old" (accessed November 28, 2013)
  2. ↑ a b Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 14, 2011 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. (Japanese) (accessed July 5, 2011) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jtta.or.jp
  3. ↑ Tim Boggan in History of US Table Tennis Vol IV (accessed November 29, 2013)
  4. ↑ http://www.chukyo-u.ac.jp/english/under/liberal.html (accessed on July 5, 2011)
  5. ↑ International Journal of Table Tennis Sciences 1996/3 (accessed on July 5, 2011; PDF; 370 kB)
  6. ↑ Online (accessed February 3, 2016)
  7. ↑ 2004 (accessed on July 5, 2011)
  8. ↑ http://www.meteo-intergate.com/journal/jsearch.php?jo=cb7apphu&ye=2004&vo=23&issue=5 (accessed on July 5, 2011)
  9. ↑ Toshiko Kowada Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed September 11, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Kowada, Toshiko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 小 和田 敏 子 (Japanese, maiden name); Takeuchi, Toshiko; 竹 内 敏 子 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH 1949