ITO Mima

Date of Birth: 21 Oct 2000

Age: 20

Gender: Female

Place of birth: IWATA

Birth Country:

Japan

Place of residence : TOKYO

Residence Country:

Japan

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Table Tennis	Women's Singles	3
	Mixed Doubles JPN MIZUTANI Jun / ITO Mima	1
	Women's Team JPN Japan	2

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium Table 2	Mixed Doubles Round of 16 #8 AUT FEGERL Stefan / POLCANOVA Sofia 1 JPN MIZUTANI Jun / ITO Mima 4	Finished
	Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium Table 2	Mixed Doubles Quarterfinal #12 GER FRANZISKA Patrick / SOLJA Petrissa 3 JPN MIZUTANI Jun / ITO Mima 4	Finished
	Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium Table 1	Mixed Doubles Semifinal #14 TPE LIN Yun Ju / CHENG I Ching 1 JPN MIZUTANI Jun / ITO Mima 4	Finished
	Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium Table 1	Mixed Doubles Gold Medal Match #16 CHN XU Xin / LIU Shiwen 3 JPN MIZUTANI Jun / ITO Mima 4	Finished
	Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium Table 3	Women's Singles Round 3 #47 JPN ITO MITO Mima 4 POR YU FYU Fu 1	Finished
	Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium Table 2	Women's Singles Round of 16 #59 JPN ITO MITO Mima 4 THA SAWETTABUT SSAWETTABUT Suthasini 0	Finished
	Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium Table 1	Women's Singles Quarterfinal #65 JPN ITO MITO Mima 4 KOR JEON JJEON Jihee 0	Finished
	Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium Table 1	Women's Singles Semifinal #68 JPN ITO MITO Mima 0 CHN SUN YSUN Yingsha 4	Finished
	Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium Table 1	Women's Singles Bronze Medal Match #69 SGP YU MYU Mengyu 1 JPN ITO MITO Mima 4	Finished
	Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium Table 2	Women's Team Round of 16 #8 HUN Hungary 0 JPN Japan 3	Finished
	Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium Table 2	Women's Team Quarterfinal #12 TPE Chinese Taipei 0 JPN Japan 3	Finished
	Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium Table 1	Women's Team Semifinal #14 HKG Hong Kong, China 0 JPN Japan 3	Finished
	Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium Table 1	Women's Team Gold Medal Team Match #16 CHN China 3 JPN Japan 0	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Olympic Games

Year	Location	Team
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	3

World Championships

Year	Location	Singles	Doubles W	Doubles X	Team
2019	Budapest, HUN	3R	2	QF	-
2018	Halmstad, SWE	-	-	-	2
2017	Dusseldorf, GER	4R	3	-	-
2016	Kuala Lumpur, MAS	-	-	-	2
2015	Suzhou, CHN	QF	2R	-	-

Year	Location	Singles
2020	Weihai, CHN	3
2016	Philadelphia, PA, USA	QF

Asian Championships

Year	Location	Singles	Doubles W	Doubles X	Team
2017	Wuxi, CHN	4R	3	2	2

WTT Star Contender

Year	Location	Singles	Doubles X
2021	Doha, QAT	1	3

ITTF Finals

Year	Location	Singles	Doubles W	Doubles X
2020	Zhengzhou, CHN	3	-	-
2019	Zhengzhou, CHN	3	-	2
2018	Incheon, KOR	1R	1	3
2017	Astana, KAZ	QF	2	-
2016	Doha, QAT	1R	-	-

ITTF World Tour - Eliminations per phase since 2017

Year	Event	W	RU	SF	QF	L16	L32	L64
2020	Singles	1x	1x	-	1x	-	-	-
2020	Doubles X	1x	1x	-	1x	-	-	-
2019	Singles	1x	3x	3x	2x	1x	1x	-
2019	Doubles W	-	-	1x	-	-	-	-
2019	Doubles X	1x	4x	2x	3x	-	-	-
2018	Singles	2x	-	2x	3x	2x	2x	-
2018	Doubles W	4x	-	3x	3x	1x	-	-
2018	Doubles X	-	1x	-	-	1x	-	-
2017	Singles	1x	1x	-	3x	1x	3x	-
2017	Doubles W	3x	1x	1x	1x	2x	-	-

ITTF World Tour - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location
1	2020	Singles	Hungarian Open	Budapest, HUN
1	2020	Doubles	Qatar Open	Doha, QAT
1	2019	Singles	Austrian Open	Linz, AUT
1	2019	Doubles	Bulgarian Open	Panagyurishte, BUL
1	2018	Singles	Swedish Open	Stockholm, SWE
1	2018	Singles	Japan Open	Kitakyushu, JPN
1	2018	Doubles	Austrian Open	Linz, AUT
1	2018	Doubles	Bulgarian Open	Panagyurishte, BUL
1	2018	Doubles	Australian Open	Gold Coast, QLD, AUS
1	2018	Doubles	German Open	Bremen, GER
1	2017	Singles	Czech Open	Olomouc, CZE
1	2017	Doubles	Swedish Open	Stockholm, SWE
1	2017	Doubles	Czech Open	Olomouc, CZE
1	2017	Doubles	Bulgarian Open	Panagyurishte, BUL

World Junior Championships

Year	Location	Singles	Doubles W	Doubles X	Team
2016	Cape Town, RSA	2R	1R	2R	1

Legend
W - Winner, RU - Runner-up, SF - Semifinal, QF - Quarterfinal, 4R - 4th Round, 3R - 3rd Round, 2R - 2nd Round, 1R - 1st Round, Prel. Rnd - Preliminary Round, L16 - Last 16, L32 - Last 32, L64 - Last 64, M - Men, W - Women, X - Mixed

Occupation:

Languages spoken:

English, Japanese

Mika Baba [national], JPN

Right (ITTF, 02 Aug 2016)

Sporting relatives:

Her mother Minori competed in table tennis at club level in Japan, and she later became a qualified coach of the Japan Sports Association. (1242.com, 15 Apr 2016; sanspo.com, 11 Nov 2015; olympicchannel.com, 24 Mar 2020)

An injury to her right thumb forced her to withdraw from the semifinals of the 2016 Asian Olympic qualification tournament in Hong Kong, China. (nikkansports.com, 14 Apr 2016)

She first tried the sport at age two. (1242.com, 15 Apr 2016)

While in primary school she was trained for more than six hours a day by her mother, who wanted Mima to follow her into the sport. (1242.com, 15 Apr 2016; olympicchannel.com, 24 Mar 2020)

To win a gold medal in both the team and singles events at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (tv-tokyo.co.jp, 06 Mar 2019; nhk.or.jp, 07 May 2020)

Japanese table tennis players Ai Fukuhara and Kasumi Ishikawa. (daily.co.jp, 02 Jan 2016)

General Interest

Grip
Shakehand (ITTF, 02 Aug 2016)

Style of play
Attack (ITTF, 02 Aug 2016)

Milestones

At age 15 years and 300 days she became the youngest table tennis player to win a medal at the Olympic Games, following her bronze medal in the team event at the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro. (ONS, 18 Aug 2016; SportsDeskOnline, 30 Dec 2019)

Alongside her partner Miu Hirano, she was part of the youngest women's doubles team to win a World Tour title. The pair won gold in doubles at the 2014 German Open in Magdeburg, Germany, at a combined age of 27 years and 145 days. The pair also became the youngest doubles team to win a World Tour Grand Finals title, following their victory at the 2014 edition in Bangkok, Thailand, at a combined age of 28 years and 298 days. (ITTF, 13 Dec 2014, 30 Jun 2015; japantoday.com, 15 Jan 2009; insidethegames.biz, 30 Mar 2014; SportsDeskOnline, 30 Dec 2019)

Social Media

Athlete Blog: https://world-tt.com/blog/ito
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/MimaItoOfficial
https://instagram.com/mima_ito
https://twitter.com/mima_staff
Athlete Website: https://www.starts.co.jp/mimaito

Legend

:: Gold Medal
:: Silver Medal
:: Bronze Medal
:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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