Shizuka Narahara
Full nameNarahara Shizuka
Nationality Japan
Born(1928-05-06)6 May 1928
Hiroshima, Japan[1]
Medal record
Women's table tennis
Representing  Japan
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 1955 Utrecht Doubles
Silver medal – second place 1955 Utrecht Team
Gold medal – first place 1952 Bombay Doubles
Gold medal – first place 1952 Bombay Team

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.

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

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "ITTF Database". International Table Tennis Federation. Archived from the original on 19 August 2014. Retrieved 24 June 2023.
  3. ^ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123.
  4. ^ "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
  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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