Saeko Hirota
{{short description|Japanese table tennis player}}
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| fullname = Hirota Saeko
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| nationality = {{JPN}}
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| birth_date = 1944
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{{MedalSport | Women's table tennis}}
{{MedalCountry | {{JPN}} }}
{{MedalCompetition | World Championships}}
{{MedalSilver | 1969 Munich | Mixed}}
{{MedalBronze | 1969 Munich | Team}}
{{MedalGold | 1967 Stockholm | Doubles}}
{{MedalGold | 1967 Stockholm | Team}}
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Saeko Hirota{{cite web|url=http://swimsuit.cnnsi.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1079786/2/index.htm|title=A Roundup Of The Sports Information Of The Week|publisher=Sports Illustrated|date=May 1, 1967|accessdate=May 31, 2013}} ({{langx|ja|広田 佐枝子}}) is a former international table tennis player from Japan.
Table tennis career
From 1967 to 1969, she won several medals in doubles, and team events in the World Table Tennis Championships and in the Asian Table Tennis Championships.{{cite web| url = http://www.ittf.com/ittf_stats/All_events3.asp?ID=2883| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160304105615/http://www.ittf.com/ittf_stats/All_events3.asp?ID=2883| archive-date = 2016-03-04| title = ITTF_Database}}
Her four World Championship medals{{cite web|url=http://sports123.com/tte/index.html|title=Table Tennis World Championship medal winners|publisher=Sports123}}{{cite web|url=https://tabletennis.guide/profile.php?name=shaeko-hirota-129039|title=Profile|publisher=Table Tennis Guide}} included two gold medals in the doubles with Sachiko Morisawa and the team event at the 1967 World Table Tennis Championships.{{cite book|last=Montague|first=Trevor|title=A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700|year=2004|publisher=The Bath Press|isbn=0-316-72645-1}}{{cite book|last=Matthews/Morrison|first=Peter/Ian|title=The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pages 309-312|year=1987|publisher=Guinness Superlatives|isbn=0-85112-492-5|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/guinnessencyclop00matt}}
See also
References
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Category:Japanese female table tennis players
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