Yui Hamamoto (浜本 由惟, Hamamoto Yui, born July 28, 1998) is a Japanese table tennis player. Her father is Japanese, while her mother is a Chinese table tennis player.[3]
| Yui Hamamoto | ||||||||||||
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.jpg) Hamamoto at the 2016 World Team Table Tennis Championships | ||||||||||||
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| Born | 28 July 1998[1] Osaka,[1] Japan | |||||||||||
| Height | 174 cm (5 ft 9 in)[1] | |||||||||||
Table tennis career | ||||||||||||
| Playing style | Right-handed shakehand grip[1] | |||||||||||
| Highest ranking | 16 (February 2017)[2] | |||||||||||
| Club | Kinoshita Abyell Kanagawa | |||||||||||
Medal record
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At the age of 18, she made the national team, which won a silver medal at the 2016 World Team Table Tennis Championships. She also won gold at the women's doubles at the 2016 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals with Hina Hayata.
Association change
editIn 2019, Hamamoto registered with the Austrian Table Tennis Association in hopes of acquiring Austrian nationality. According to her family, she did so in order to continue playing internationally, as making the Japanese national team again had been difficult for her.[4][5]
In popular culture
editHamamoto appeared in the 2017 film Mixed Doubles.[6]
References
edit- ^ a b c d "浜本 由惟". T.League (in Japanese). Retrieved 8 January 2020.
- ^ "Player profile - Yui Hamamoto". ITTF. Retrieved 11 December 2019.
- ^ "３か国語操る才色兼備の卓球美少女". Tokyo Sports (in Japanese). 3 November 2013. Retrieved 18 October 2019.
- ^ "卓球の浜本由惟、オーストリアに国籍変更希望 １６年世界選手権代表". Sankei Shimbun (in Japanese). 2 June 2019. Retrieved 18 October 2019.
- ^ "「中国と同じ流れに…」国籍変えて五輪へ 卓球・浜本"流出"の波紋". Sankei Shimbun (in Japanese). 8 July 2019. Retrieved 15 January 2020.
- ^ "新垣結衣×瑛太「ミックス。」に水谷＆石川ら現役卓球選手出演". Excite (in Japanese). 17 August 2017. Retrieved 15 January 2020.
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