Taeko Namba is a former international table tennis player from Japan.
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Full name | Taeko Namba | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 1936 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Table tennis career
editFrom 1957 to 1959 she won several medals in doubles, and in team events in the World Table Tennis Championships.[1]
The four World Championship medals[2][3] included three gold medals; two in the team event and one in the doubles with Kazuko Yamaizumi.[4][5]
She also won two English Open titles.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "ITTF_Database". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04.
- ^ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123.
- ^ "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
- ^ Montague, Trevor (2004). A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700. The Bath Press. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
- ^ Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian (1987). The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pages 309-312. Guinness Superlatives. ISBN 0-85112-492-5.