Fujie Eguchi (江口 冨士枝, ''Eguchi Fujie''; 18 November 1932 in
Nagasaki
is the capital and the largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu in Japan.
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– 28 May 2021) was an international
table tennis
Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...
player from
Japan.
Table tennis career
From 1954 to 1959 she won many medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the
Asian Table Tennis Championships
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, and in the
World Table Tennis Championships
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.
The sixteen World Championship medals included six
gold medals; one in the singles at the
1957 World Table Tennis Championships
The 1957 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Stockholm
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, three in the team event and two in the mixed doubles with
Ichiro Ogimura.
She also won three
English Open titles.
See also
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List of table tennis players
This list of table tennis players is alphabetically ordered by surname. The main source of the information included in this page is the official International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) database. More detailed information about their careers i ...
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List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists
Results of individual events
The tables below are medalists of individual events (men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles and mixed).
Men's singles
Medal table
Women's singles
The champion of women's singles in 1937 was declared ...
References
1932 births
2021 deaths
People 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 women
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