Shizuka Narahara Explained

Shizuka Narahara
Fullname:Narahara Shizuka
Birth Date:6 May 1928
Birth Place:Hiroshima, Japan[1]

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.

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

Notes and References

  1. Book: Griffin . Nicholas . Ping-Pong Diplomacy: Ivor Montagu and the Astonishing Story Behind the Game That Changed the World . 2014 . 9780857207371 . 9 December 2022.
  2. Web site: ITTF Database . . 24 June 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140819090622/http://www.ittf.com/ittf_stats/All_events3.asp?ID=5004 . August 19, 2014 . en.
  3. Web site: Table Tennis World Championship medal winners. Sports123.
  4. Web site: Profile. Table Tennis Guide.
  5. Book: Montague, Trevor. A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700. 2004. The Bath Press. 0-316-72645-1.
  6. Book: Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian. The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pages 309-312. 1987. Guinness Superlatives. 0-85112-492-5. registration.

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