Yui Hamamoto
Hamamoto at the 2016 World Team Table Tennis Championships
Personal information
Born (1998-07-28) 28 July 1998 (age 25)[1]
Osaka,[1] Japan
Height174 cm (5 ft 9 in)[1]
Table tennis career
Playing styleRight-handed shakehand grip[1]
Highest ranking16 (February 2017)[2]
ClubKinoshita Abyell Kanagawa
Medal record
Representing  Japan
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2016 Selangor Team

Yui Hamamoto (浜本 由惟, Hamamoto Yui, born July 28, 1998) is a Japanese table tennis player. Her father is Japanese, and her mother is a table tennis player from China.[3]

At the age of 18, she made the national team which won a silver medal at the 2016 World Team Table Tennis Championships. She also won gold at the women's doubles at the 2016 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals with Hina Hayata.

Association change

In 2019, Hamamoto registered with the Austrian Table Tennis Association with hopes to acquire Austrian nationality. According to her family, she did so to continue to play internationally as it had been hard for her to make the Japanese national team again.[4][5]

In popular culture

Hamamoto appeared in the 2017 film Mixed Doubles.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "浜本 由惟". T.League (in Japanese). Retrieved 8 January 2020.
  2. ^ "Player profile - Yui Hamamoto". ITTF. Retrieved 2019-12-11.
  3. ^ "３か国語操る才色兼備の卓球美少女". Tokyo Sports (in Japanese). 2013-11-03. Retrieved 2019-10-18.
  4. ^ "卓球の浜本由惟、オーストリアに国籍変更希望　１６年世界選手権代表". Sankei Shimbun (in Japanese). 2019-06-02. Retrieved 2019-10-18.
  5. ^ "「中国と同じ流れに…」国籍変えて五輪へ　卓球・浜本"流出"の波紋". Sankei Shimbun (in Japanese). 8 July 2019. Retrieved 15 January 2020.
  6. ^ "新垣結衣×瑛太「ミックス。」に水谷＆石川ら現役卓球選手出演". Excite (in Japanese). 17 August 2017. Retrieved 15 January 2020.


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