Fujie Eguchi (江口 冨士枝, Eguchi Fujie; 18 November 1932 in Nagasaki – 28 May 2021[1]) was an international table tennis player from Japan.
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| Full name | Fujie Eguchi | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 18 November 1932 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 28 May 2021 (aged 88) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Table tennis career
editFrom 1954 to 1959 she won many medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the Asian Table Tennis Championships, and in the World Table Tennis Championships.[2]
The sixteen World Championship medals[3][4] included six gold medals; one in the singles at the 1957 World Table Tennis Championships, three in the team event and two in the mixed doubles with Ichiro Ogimura.[5][6]
She also won three English Open titles.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ 卓球元王者、江口冨士枝さん死去 ５０年代に活躍 Archived 2021-06-30 at the Wayback Machine (in Japanese)
- ^ "ITTF_Database". Archived from the original on 16 October 2012.
- ^ "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.
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