Yoshiko Tanaka (table tennis player)
Yoshiko Tanaka ( Japanese 田中 良 子 , Tanaka Yoshiko ; * around 1932 ) is a Japanese table tennis player . She won several medals at world championships.
In 1950 Tanaka won the All-Japan Championship. At the 1952 Asian Championships in Singapore for the first time , she won doubles with the Indian Gool Nasikwala and in 1953 mixed with Kichiji Tamasu and with the team.
From 1954 to 1956 she was nominated three times for world championships. In 1954 she became vice world champion in singles behind Angelica Adelstein-Rozeanu and world champion with the Japanese women's team. With the team she won silver in 1955 and bronze in 1955 .
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 | Semifinals | gold | 1 |
JPN | Asian Championship TTFA | 1952 | Singapore | SIN | Semifinals | gold | Semifinals | |
JPN | World Championship | 1956 | Tokyo | JPN | last 32 | Semifinals | Semifinals | 3 |
JPN | World Championship | 1955 | Utrecht | NED | last 16 | Semifinals | Quarter finals | 2 |
JPN | World Championship | 1954 | Wembley | CLOSELY | silver | last 32 | last 64 | 1 |
Individual evidence
- ↑ according to DTS magazine , 1956/17 issue West (September 5, 1956) page 1 Tanaka was 24 years old at this time.
- ↑ Tim Boggan: History of US Table Tennis Vol III (accessed January 18, 2016)
- ↑ Yoshiko Tanaka (table tennis player) Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 15, 2011)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Tanaka, Yoshiko |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 田中 良 子 (Japanese) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese table tennis player |
DATE OF BIRTH | around 1932 |