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Kazuko Ito-Yamaizumi
Full name	ITO-YAMAIZUMI Kazuko
Nationality	Japan
Born	(1935-01-17)17 January 1935 Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Died	27 August 2024(2024-08-27) (aged 89)
Medal record Women's table tennis Representing  Japan World Championships 1959 Dortmund Doubles 1959 Dortmund Team 1961 Beijing Team 1963 Prague Mixed Doubles 1963 Prague Team 1963 Prague Doubles Asian Championships 1960 Bombay Team 1960 Bombay Singles 1960 Bombay Doubles 1963 Manila Mixed Doubles 1963 Manila Team 1960 Bombay Mixed Doubles

Kazuko Ito-Yamaizumi (山泉 和子, Yamaizumi Kazuko, January 17, 1935 – August 27, 2024) was an international table tennis player from Japan.

Table tennis career

From 1959 to 1963 Ito-Yamaizumi won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the World Table Tennis Championships and in the Asian Table Tennis Championships.

The six World Championship medals included five gold medals; one in the women's doubles with Taeko Namba in 1959, one in the mixed doubles with Koji Kimura in 1963 and three in the team event.

Death

Ito-Yamaizumi died on August 27, 2024, at the age of 89.

See also

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

References

1. "ITTF_Database". Archived from the original on 16 October 2012.
2. "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123.
3. "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
4. Montague, Trevor (2004). A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700. The Bath Press. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
5. Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian (1987). The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pages 309-312. Guinness Superlatives. ISBN 0-85112-492-5.
6. 元世界チャンピオン・伊藤和子さんが逝去。67歳にして史上初の全日本100勝も達成 (in Japanese)

External links

• Kazuko Ito-Yamaizumi at World Table Tennis

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