Fujie Eguchi (江口冨士枝, ''Eguchi Fujie''; 18 November 1932 in

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– 28 May 2021) was an international

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player from

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Table tennis career

From 1954 to 1959 she won many medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the Asian Table Tennis Championships, and in the

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. The sixteen World Championship medals included six

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s; 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. She also won three

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titles.

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1932 births 2021 deaths Sportspeople from Nagasaki Japanese female table tennis players Asian Games medalists in table tennis Table tennis players at the 1958 Asian Games Asian Games gold medalists for Japan Asian Games bronze medalists for Japan Medalists at the 1958 Asian Games 20th-century Japanese sportswomen {{Japan-tabletennis-bio-stub

Table tennis career

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