Yoshiko Tanaka (table tennis player)

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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
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

  1. ↑ according to DTS magazine , 1956/17 issue West (September 5, 1956) page 1 Tanaka was 24 years old at this time.
  2. ↑ Tim Boggan: History of US Table Tennis Vol III (accessed January 18, 2016)
  3. ↑ Yoshiko Tanaka (table tennis player) Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 15, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Tanaka, Yoshiko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 田中 良 子 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH around 1932