Kiiko Watanabe

Kiiko Watanabe
Personal information
Full nameWatanabe Kiiko
Nationality Japan
Born1935 (age 90–91)
Sport
SportTable tennis
Medal record
Women's table tennis
Representing  Japan
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place1957 StockholmSingles
Gold medal – first place1957 StockholmTeam
Silver medal – second place1956 TokyoSingles
Silver medal – second place1956 TokyoDoubles
Bronze medal – third place1956 TokyoTeam
Bronze medal – third place1955 UtrechtSingles
Bronze medal – third place1955 UtrechtDoubles
Silver medal – second place1955 UtrechtTeam
Bronze medal – third place1954 WembleyDoubles
Gold medal – first place1954 WembleyTeam

Kiiko Watanabe is a former international table tennis player from Japan.[1]

Table tennis career

From 1954 to 1957 she won ten medals in singles,[2] doubles and in team events in the World Table Tennis Championships.[3]

The ten World Championship medals[4] included two gold medals in the team event for Japan.[5][6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
  2. ↑ "Women's Singles results" (PDF). International Table Tennis Federation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-04-12.
  3. ↑ "ITTF_Database". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04.
  4. ↑ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123. Archived from the original on 2018-09-22. Retrieved 2018-03-02.
  5. ↑ Montague, Trevor (2004). A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700. The Bath Press. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
  6. ↑ 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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