Hwang Yool-ja is a female former 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 South Korea.
Table tennis career
She won a
silver medal
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at the
1959 World Table Tennis Championships
The 1959 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Dortmund
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, in the Corbillon Cup (women's team event) for South Korea with
Cho Kyung-Cha
Cho Kyung-ja is a former international table tennis player from South Korea.
Table tennis career
She won a silver medal at the 1959 World Table Tennis Championships, in the Corbillon Cup (women's team event) for South Korea with Lee Chong-Hi, ...
,
Choi Kyung-ja and
Lee Chong-Hi.
She also made the women's doubles quarter final during the same championships.
She won two
Asian Championship
An Asian Championship is a top level international sports competition between Asian athletes or sports teams representing their respective countries or professional sports clubs.
List of Championships (Summer Olympic Sports)
;Aquatics
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medals in 1962.
See also
*
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
South Korean female table tennis players
Asian Games medalists in table tennis
Table tennis players at the 1962 Asian Games
Asian Games silver medalists for South Korea
Asian Games bronze medalists for South Korea
Medalists at the 1962 Asian Games
World Table Tennis Championships medalists
20th-century South Korean women
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