Tomi Okawa

Tomi Ōkawa (Japanese大川 とみ, Ōkawa Tomi married, Tomi Okada (岡田 とみ, Okada Tomi ), born February 26, 1933 Mitsukaido (now Joso ), Ibaraki Prefecture ) is a former Japanese table tennis player. In the Table Tennis World Championships 1956, she won the title as the first Japanese woman in women's singles. A further two gold medals she won with the Japanese team. In the Japanese national championships she could only once the title in the women's singles win (1959 ), but won five times in the mixed doubles.

Achievements

Table Tennis World Cup 1956

  • 3rd place team
  • 1st place women's singles
  • 3rd place women's doubles ( with Yoshiko Tanaka - JPN)

Table Tennis World Cup 1957

Table Tennis World Cup 1961

Asian Games 1958

Asian Games 1960

Japanese National Championships

Results from the ITTF database

1956 World Table Tennis Championships Yoshiko Tanaka (table tennis) 1957 World Table Tennis Championships 1961 World Table Tennis Championships International Table Tennis Federation Anna Sipos Gertrude Pritzi Gizella Farkas Ge Xinai Tong Ling (table tennis) Cao Yanhua Qiao Hong Deng Yaping Wang Nan (table tennis) Guo Yue (table tennis) Ding Ning Li Xiaoxia
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