Yasuko Kudo
Appearance
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![]() Kudo at the 2006 World Para Table Tennis Championships | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Kumamoto Prefecture,[1] Japan | January 31, 1969||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Table tennis career ![]() | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Playing style | Right-handed shakehand grip | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Disability class | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Highest ranking | 3 (January 2001)[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Current ranking | 17 (January 2020) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Yasuko Kudo (工藤 恭子, Kudō Yasuko, born 31 January 1969[4][5]) is a Japanese para table tennis player. She won a bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Paralympics.[6]
Her left hand was cut off at the wrist by an electric animal feed cutter in an accident when she was five years old.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "工藤 恭子" (PDF). Japanese Red Cross Kumamoto Hospital (in Japanese). October 2004. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
- ^ "Kudo Yasuko Ranking history". ITTF. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
- ^ "Kudo Yasuko Profile". ITTF. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
- ^ "아시아선수권대회 국가별 참가선수명단". Daum (in Korean). 31 October 2007. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
- ^ "Athens 2004 Paralympic Games - Table Tennis - Official Results Book". ipc-services.org. International Paralympic Committee. 19 September 2004.
- ^ "Yasuko Kudo". Paralympic Games. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
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- 1969 births
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- Table tennis players at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
- Table tennis players at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic medalists in table tennis
- Medalists at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
- Japanese female table tennis players
- Paralympic bronze medalists for Japan
- Paralympic table tennis players for Japan
- Sportspeople from Kumamoto Prefecture
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