Yui Hamamoto

{{short description|Japanese table tennis player}}

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{{Infobox table tennis player

| name = Yui Hamamoto

| image = Yui Hamamoto WTTC2016 (cropped).jpg

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| caption = Hamamoto at the 2016 World Team Table Tennis Championships

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1998|7|28|df=y}}

| birth_place = Osaka,{{cite web|url=https://tleague.jp/team/kinoshitaabyell-kanagawa/player/?season=2019&pno=1|title=浜本 由惟|language=ja|website=T.League|access-date=8 January 2020}} Japan

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| playingstyle = Right-handed shakehand grip

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| highest_rank = 16 (February 2017){{cite web|url=https://ranking.ittf.com/#/players/profile/117819/stats|title=Player profile - Yui Hamamoto|website=ITTF|access-date=2019-12-11}}

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| club = Kinoshita Abyell Kanagawa

| height = 174 cm

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{{MedalCompetition|World Championships}}

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{{nihongo|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.{{cite news |url = https://www.tokyo-sports.co.jp/sports/table-tennis/199229/ | title = ３か国語操る才色兼備の卓球美少女 | language = ja |access-date=2019-10-18 | date= 2013-11-03 | website = Tokyo Sports}}

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 ==

In 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.{{cite news | url = https://www.sankei.com/sports/news/190602/spo1906020004-n1.html | title = 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 |date = 2019-06-02| newspaper = Sankei Shimbun | access-date = 2019-10-18 | language = ja}}{{cite web|url=https://www.sankei.com/premium/news/190708/prm1907080009-n1.html|title=「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|date=8 July 2019|language=ja|newspaper = Sankei Shimbun|access-date=15 January 2020}}