Yoshiko Tanaka (table tennis)

Yoshiko Tanaka
Full name	Tanaka Yoshiko
Nationality	Japan
Born	1932
Medal record Women's table tennis Representing  Japan World Championships 1956 Tokyo Doubles 1956 Tokyo Mixed 1956 Tokyo Team 1955 Utrecht Doubles 1955 Utrecht Team 1954 Wembley Singles 1954 Wembley Team

Yoshiko Tanaka (田中 良子, Tanaka Yoshiko) is a former international table tennis player from Japan.^[1]

Table tennis career

She won a gold medal in the women's team event at the World Table Tennis Championships in 1954.^[2][3][4]

In addition she won six other World Championship medals; one in the singles,^[5] two in the doubles, one in the mixed doubles and two in the team event.^[6]

See also

• List of table tennis players
• List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists

References

1. "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
2. "ITTF_Database". Archived from the original on 2016-01-18. Retrieved 2013-02-02.
3. Montague, Trevor (2004). A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700. The Bath Press. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
4. Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian (1987). The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pages 309-312. Guinness Superlatives. ISBN 0-85112-492-5.
5. "Women's Singles results" (PDF). International Table Tennis Federation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-04-12.
6. "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123.