Shizuka_Narahara

Shizuka Narahara

Shizuka Narahara

Japanese table tennis player (born 1928)

Shizuka Narahara (楢原 静, Narahara Shizuka, born 6 May 1928) is a Japanese former table tennis player. From Hiroshima, she was in the city on 6 August 1945, when the first of two atomic bombs was dropped on Japan.

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Table tennis career

From 1952 to 1955 she won five medals in doubles and team events in the World Table Tennis Championships.[2]

The five World Championship medals[3] [4] included two gold medals in the doubles with Tomie Nishimura at the 1952 World Table Tennis Championships and the team event also at the 1952 World Table Tennis Championships.[5] [6]

See also

References

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    Griffin, Nicholas (2014). Ping-Pong Diplomacy: Ivor Montagu and the Astonishing Story Behind the Game That Changed the World. ISBN 9780857207371. Retrieved 9 December 2022.
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    "ITTF Database". International Table Tennis Federation. Archived from the original on 19 August 2014. Retrieved 24 June 2023.
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    "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123.
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    "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
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    Montague, Trevor (2004). A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700. The Bath Press. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
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    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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