Noriko Yamanaka

Noriko Yamanaka
Personal information
Full nameYamanaka Noriko
Nationality Japan
Born1941 (age 84–85)
Sport
SportTable tennis
Medal record
Women's table tennis
Representing  Japan
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place1967 StockholmSingles
Silver medal – second place1967 StockholmDoubles
Gold medal – first place1967 StockholmMixed
Gold medal – first place1967 StockholmTeam
Bronze medal – third place1965 LjubljanaSingles
Silver medal – second place1965 LjubljanaDoubles
Silver medal – second place1965 LjubljanaTeam
Bronze medal – third place1963 PragueDoubles
Gold medal – first place1963 PragueTeam

Noriko Yamanaka (山中 教子, Yamanaka Noriko) is a former international table tennis player from Japan.[1]

Table tennis career

From 1963 to 1967 she won nine medals in singles,[2] doubles, and team events in the World Table Tennis Championships.[3]

The nine World Championship medals[4] included three gold medals; one in the mixed doubles at the 1967 World Table Tennis Championships with Nobuhiko Hasegawa and two 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.
  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.