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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

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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

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References

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  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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