Shizuka Narahara

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.

Shizuka Narahara
Full name	Narahara Shizuka
Nationality	Japan
Born	(1928-05-06)6 May 1928 Hiroshima, Japan[1]
Medal record Women's table tennis Representing  Japan World Championships 1955 Utrecht Doubles 1955 Utrecht Team 1952 Bombay Doubles 1952 Bombay Team

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

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

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.