Yoshiko Tanaka (table tennis)

From WikiProjectMed
Jump to navigation Jump to search
Yoshiko Tanaka
Full nameTanaka Yoshiko
Nationality Japan
Born1932
Medal record
Women's table tennis
Representing  Japan
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 1956 Tokyo Doubles
Bronze medal – third place 1956 Tokyo Mixed
Silver medal – second place 1956 Tokyo Team
Bronze medal – third place 1955 Utrecht Doubles
Silver medal – second place 1955 Utrecht Team
Silver medal – second place 1954 Wembley Singles
Gold medal – first place 1954 Wembley Team

Yoshiko Tanaka (田中 良子, Tanaka Yoshiko) is a former international table tennis player from Japan.[1]

Table tennis career

She won a gold medal in the women's team event at the World Table Tennis Championships in 1954.[2][3][4]

In addition she won six other World Championship medals; one in the singles,[5] two in the doubles, one in the mixed doubles and two in the team event.[6]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
  2. ^ "ITTF_Database". Archived from the original on 2016-01-18. Retrieved 2013-02-02.
  3. ^ Montague, Trevor (2004). A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700. The Bath Press. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
  4. ^ Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian (1987). The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pages 309-312. Guinness Superlatives. ISBN 0-85112-492-5.
  5. ^ "Women's Singles results" (PDF). International Table Tennis Federation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-04-12.
  6. ^ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123.


Stub icon 1 Stub icon 2

This biographical article relating to a Japanese table tennis figure is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Retrieved from "https://mdwiki.org/wiki/Yoshiko_Tanaka_(table_tennis)"