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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Yui Hamamoto (
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
[edit]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.[4][5]
In popular culture
[edit]Hamamoto 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 2019-12-11.
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国 語 操 る才色兼備 の卓球 美少女 ". Tokyo Sports (in Japanese). 2013-11-03. Retrieved 2019-10-18. - ^ "
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). 2019-06-02. Retrieved 2019-10-18. - ^ "「
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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