Fujie Eguchi

Fujie Eguchi (江口 冨士枝, Eguchi Fujie; 18 November 1932 in Nagasaki – 28 May 2021^[1]) was an international table tennis player from Japan.

Fujie Eguchi
Full name	Fujie Eguchi
Nationality	Japan
Born	(1932-11-18)18 November 1932
Died	28 May 2021(2021-05-28) (aged 88)
Medal record Women's table tennis Representing  Japan World Championships 1959 Dortmund Singles 1959 Dortmund Doubles 1959 Dortmund Mixed Doubles 1959 Dortmund Team 1957 Stockholm Singles 1957 Stockholm Mixed Doubles 1957 Stockholm Team 1956 Tokyo Singles 1956 Tokyo Doubles 1956 Tokyo Team 1955 Utrecht Doubles 1955 Utrecht Team 1954 Wembley Singles 1954 Wembley Doubles 1954 Wembley Mixed Doubles 1954 Wembley Team Asian Championships 1953 Tokyo Doubles

Table tennis career

From 1954 to 1959 she won many medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the Asian Table Tennis Championships, and in the World Table Tennis Championships.^[2]

The sixteen World Championship medals^[3][4] included six gold medals; one in the singles at the 1957 World Table Tennis Championships, three in the team event and two in the mixed doubles with Ichiro Ogimura.^[5][6]

She also won three English Open titles.

See also

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

References

1. 卓球元王者、江口冨士枝さん死去　５０年代に活躍 Archived 2021-06-30 at the Wayback Machine (in Japanese)
2. "ITTF_Database". Archived from the original on 16 October 2012.
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.