Mima Ito
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| Born |
October 21, 2000 Shizuoka Prefecture[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Highest ranking | 15 (April 2015) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Current ranking | 15 (April 2015)[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Mima Ito (伊藤 美誠 Itō Mima) (born October 21, 2000) is a Japanese table tennis player.[8]
At the age of ten, she became the youngest person to win a match at the Japanese senior table tennis championships[1][9] and the youngest person to win an ITTF Junior Circuit tournament.[10] At eleven she defeated the player ranked 50th in the world at the time.[11]
In March 2014 she, together with Miu Hirano, won the doubles' title at German Open. They were both 13 at the time. Thus they became the youngest-ever winners of a doubles competition in the ITTF World Tour.[7][12]
In March 2015 she won, after beating Shan Xiaona, Che Xiaoxi and Feng Tianwei, the singles' title at German Open against Petrissa Solja.[13]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "８年後に五輪 狙う小５ 伊藤美誠（卓球）". The Asahi Shimbun Digital. 2012-01-26. Archived from the original on 2012-01-26. Retrieved 2014-04-28.
- ↑ "World Ranking - ITO Mima". ITTF. Retrieved 2015-04-27.
- ↑ "Table tennis - Junior World Championships - Women's Team 2013 season results". The-sports.org. Retrieved 2014-04-28.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Breaking the Age Barrier, Sensational Win for Mima Ito in Chinese Taipei". ITTF. 2011-09-18. Retrieved 2014-04-28.
- ↑ "Table Tennis: Ito, 12, wins two golds at Chinese Taipei Junior and Cadet Open". SportAsia. 2013-07-28. Retrieved 2014-04-28.
- ↑ "大阪国際招待卓球に出場した伊藤美誠は高校生を次々破り決勝進出、準優勝！". RIGHTS. Inc. 2012-02-22. Retrieved 2014-02-26.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Table Tennis Japanese 13-year-olds make history at German Open". Sport Asia. 2014-03-31. Retrieved 2014-04-28.
- ↑ "Most table tennis counter hits in one minute". Guinness World Records Limited. Retrieved 2014-04-28.
"Japan's 12-year-old table tennis prodigy eyes Olympics". 2013-07-29. Retrieved 2013-04-28.
"Elfjährige Japanerin mischt Tischtennis-Szene auf - Wunderkind Mima Ito". Krone.at. 2012-04-20. Retrieved 2014-04-28. - ↑ "TABLE TENNIS / The kids are all right -- grade-schoolers tearing up pingpong tables". Asahi Shimbun. 2012-02-10. Retrieved 2014-02-26.
- ↑ "12-year-old Mima ITO was the hero in Taipei". European Table Tennis Union. 2013-07-28. Retrieved 2014-04-28.
- ↑ "Tischtennis: Elfjährige besiegt Nummer 50 der Welt". Spiegel Online. 2012-04-20. Retrieved 2014-04-28.
- ↑ "13 Year Old Japanese Duo Create History on the ITTF World Tour". Around The Rings. 2014-03-31. Retrieved 2014-04-28.
- ↑ http://www.mytischtennis.de/public/buntes/5795/das-rekordkind--mima-ito-auf-dem-weg-zum-olympiasieg
External links
- Mima Ito's ITTF ranking
- List of articles about Mima Ito provided by the ITTF website
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