ISHIKAWA Kasumi

Date of Birth: 23 Feb 1993

Age: 28

Gender: Female

Place of birth: YAMAGUCHI

Birth Country:

Japan

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Table Tennis	Women's Singles	5
	Women's Team JPN Japan	2

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium Table 2	Women's Singles Round 3 #43 JPN ISHIKAWA KISHIKAWA Kasumi 4 THA PARANANG OPARANANG Orawan 2	Finished
	Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium Table 3	Women's Singles Round of 16 #57 JPN ISHIKAWA KISHIKAWA Kasumi 4 AUT POLCANOVA SPOLCANOVA Sofia 0	Finished
	Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium Table 1	Women's Singles Quarterfinal #64 JPN ISHIKAWA KISHIKAWA Kasumi 1 SGP YU MYU Mengyu 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	Singles	Team
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	3R	3
2012	London, GBR	4	2

World Championships

Year	Location	Singles	Doubles W	Doubles X	Team
2019	Budapest, HUN	4R	-	2	-
2018	Halmstad, SWE	-	-	-	2
2017	Dusseldorf, GER	QF	3R	1	-
2016	Kuala Lumpur, MAS	-	-	-	2
2015	Suzhou, CHN	3R	-	2	-
2014	Tokyo, JPN	-	-	-	2
2013	Paris, FRA	3R	3R	3R	-
2012	Dortmund, GER	-	-	-	5
2011	Rotterdam, NED	4R	3R	4R	-
2010	Moscow, RUS	-	-	-	3
2009	Yokohama, JPN	QF	2R	3R	-
2008	Guangzhou, CHN	-	-	-	3
2007	Zagreb, CRO	-	2R	2R	-

Year	Location	Singles
2020	Weihai, CHN	QF
2019	Chengdu, CHN	QF
2018	Chengdu, CHN	4
2017	Markham, ON, CAN	Last 16

Asian Championships

Year	Location	Singles	Doubles W	Team
2019	Yogyakarta, INA	QF	3	2

WTT Star Contender

Year	Location	Singles	Doubles W
2021	Doha, QAT	3R	2

ITTF Finals

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

ITTF World Tour - Eliminations per phase since 2017

Year	Event	W	RU	SF	QF	L16	L32	L64
2020	Singles	-	-	1x	-	2x	-	-
2020	Doubles W	1x	1x	1x	-	-	-	-
2019	Singles	-	-	2x	2x	5x	2x	-
2019	Doubles W	-	1x	1x	-	1x	-	-
2019	Doubles X	-	-	1x	2x	2x	-	-
2018	Singles	2x	-	3x	4x	-	2x	-
2018	Doubles W	1x	-	2x	2x	-	-	-
2018	Doubles X	-	1x	1x	1x	-	-	-
2017	Singles	1x	2x	2x	1x	-	4x	-
2017	Doubles W	1x	-	-	2x	4x	-	-

ITTF World Tour - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location
1	2020	Doubles	Hungarian Open	Budapest, HUN
1	2018	Singles	Czech Open	Olomouc, CZE
1	2018	Singles	German Open	Bremen, GER
1	2018	Doubles	Bulgarian Open	Panagyurishte, BUL
1	2017	Singles	Bulgarian Open	Panagyurishte, BUL
1	2017	Doubles	Bulgarian Open	Panagyurishte, BUL
2	2020	Doubles	German Open	Magdeburg, GER
2	2019	Doubles	Swedish Open	Stockholm, SWE
2	2018	Doubles	Japan Open	Kitakyushu, JPN
2	2017	Singles	Czech Open	Olomouc, CZE
2	2017	Singles	Korea Open	Incheon, KOR

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:

Japanese, Mandarin

Zen-Noh [Japan]

Mika Baba [national], JPN

Left (ITTF, 02 Aug 2016)

Sporting relatives:

Her younger sister Rira has played table tennis at World Tour level. Her mother Kumi and father Hisa both competed in the sport at club level in Japan, and Kumi has also coached her and Rira. (hochi.news, 26 Jan 2020; ITTF, 06 Jun 2015; 3minute-media.com, 27 Apr 2015; ITTF, 01 Sep 2013; tabletennista.com, 24 Oct 2012; nittaku.com, 01 Jan 2011; SportsDeskOnline, 05 Jun 2020)

She missed the 2015 Asian Championships in Pattaya, Thailand, because of an injury to her left thigh. (kasumiishikawa.com, 26 Sep 2015)

She took up the sport at age seven in 2000. (Official ITTF YouTube channel, 14 Aug 2015; TV Tokyo, 17 Dec 2019)

"My parents were table tennis players. I always went to their matches in my childhood, but after I grew up my parents came with me to my matches and taught me how to play." (Official ITTF YouTube channel, 14 Aug 2015)

To win a gold medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (hochi.co.jp, 10 Jan 2016)

Winning silver in the team event at the 2012 Olympic Games in London and bronze in the team event at the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro, and winning gold in mixed doubles at the 2017 World Championships in Dusseldorf, Germany. (ittf.com, 31 Mar 2019)

Chinese table tennis player Zhang Yining, Japanese boxer Takashi Uchiyama. (kinoshita-abyell.com, 05 Sep 2019; ittf.com, 31 Mar 2019)

General Interest

Grip
Shakehand (ITTF, 02 Aug 2016)

Style of play
Attack (ITTF, 02 Aug 2016)

General
FAMILY SUPPORT
Her family relocated from a flat to a house when she was in grade three of primary school in order to build her a practice area to train. Her mother Kumi also began coaching Kasumi and opened a table tennis class to give her more opportunities to play against adults. (chunichi.co.jp, 04 Jun 2019)

OTHER ACTIVITIES
In 2017 she played a cameo role in the Japanese film 'Mix' alongside fellow Japanese table tennis player Jun Mizutani. The film included a mixed doubles table tennis tournament as part of the plot. (ittf.com, 19 Aug 2017)

Milestones

Alongside her partner Maharu Yoshimura, she was part of the first Japanese team in 48 years to win a gold medal in mixed doubles at the world championships, following the pair's victory at the 2017 edition in Dusseldorf, Germany. Their gold medal was also Japan's first in any event at the world championships for 38 years. (tleague.jp, 21 Nov 2019; SportsDeskOnline, 30 Dec 2019)

She and teammates Ai Fukuhara and Sayaka Hirano became the first table tennis players representing Japan to win a medal at the Olympic Games, when they claimed silver in the women's team event at the 2012 Games in London. (ITTF, 01 Sep 2013; SportsDeskOnline, 07 Aug 2012; london2012.nikkansports.com, 07 Aug 2012)

Social Media

https://www.facebook.com/kasumi.ishikawa.739
https://instagram.com/kasumi.ishikawa_official
Athlete Website: http://kasumiishikawa.com

Legend

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

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