Yukie Ōzeki

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Yukie Ōzeki ( Japanese 大関 行 江 , Ōzeki Yukie ) is a Japanese table tennis player . She won five bronze and one gold medals at world championships in the 1970s.

Career

Yukie Ozeki used the bat in the penholder style. At the Japanese National Championships she won ten titles, namely in 1967, 1970, 1971, 1973 and 1975 in singles, in doubles in 1971 with Miho Hamada and in mixed 1967 with Satoru Kawahara, 1970 with Nobuhiko Hasegawa and 1974 and 1975 with Shigeo Itō .

In 1968 she was Asian champion in singles and doubles with Mieko Fukuno. She won another title in 1974 with the Japanese team. She reached the final six times: in 1972 and 1974 in singles, in doubles in 1967 (with Nagata) and 1974 (with Sachiko Yokota) and in 1968 and 1972 in team competition.

Yukie Ōzeki participated in the World Championships in 1971 , 1973 and 1975 . She was not nominated for the 1969 World Cup because of her undisciplined behavior. In 1971 she became world champion with the Japanese women's team before China. She also came third in doubles with Setsuko Kobori. She won further bronze medals in 1973 and 1975 with the team and in 1975 in doubles with Sachiko Yokota and in mixed with Shigeo Itō . In 1974 she entered the American Open Championships and won the individual here.

In the ITTF world rankings she finished second in December 1968.

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
JPN Asian Championship ATTU 1974 Yokohama JPN silver silver Quarter finals 1
JPN Asian Championship ATTU 1972 Beijing CHN silver Quarter finals Semifinals 2
JPN Asian Championship TTFA 1970 Nagoya JPN last 16 Quarter finals
JPN Asian Championship TTFA 1968 Jakarta INA gold gold 2
JPN Asian Championship TTFA 1967 Singapore SIN silver
JPN Asian Games 1974 Tehran IRI Quarter finals silver
JPN World Championship 1975 Calcutta IND last 16 Semifinals Semifinals 3
JPN World Championship 1973 Sarajevo YUG Quarter finals last 32 Quarter finals 3
JPN World Championship 1971 Nagoya JPN Quarter finals Semifinals last 32 1

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tim Boggan: History of US Table Tennis Vol VII (accessed November 28, 2013)
  2. ↑ DTS magazine , 1988/12 p. 9
  3. ↑ US Open Table Tennis Champions (accessed September 5, 2011)
  4. ↑ World rankings 1947 to 2001 (Excel; 171 kB) ( Memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on September 5, 2011)
  5. ↑ Yukie Ōzeki Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed September 5, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Ōzeki, Yukie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 大関 行 江 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century