Kasumi Ishikawa

Kasumi Ishikawa
Ishikawa celebrating at the 2016 World Team Table Tennis Championships
Personal information
Nickname(s)Kasumi-chan, Kasumin
NationalityJapanese
Born (1993-02-23) 23 February 1993 (age 31)[1]
Yamaguchi, Japan[2]
Height1.58 m (5 ft 2 in)[3]
Weight51 kg (112 lb)[4]
Table tennis career
Playing styleLeft-handed, Shakehand grip, Looper
Equipment(s)Butterfly Viscaria, Butterfly Tenergy 64, DHS Neo Hurricane 3 National Blue Sponge
Highest ranking3 (February 2017)[5]
Current ranking10 (May 2022)
ClubKinoshita Abyell Kanagawa
Medal record
Representing  Japan
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2020 Tokyo Team
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Rio de Janeiro Team
Silver medal – second place 2012 London Team
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2019 Budapest Mixed doubles
Silver medal – second place 2018 Halmstad Team
Gold medal – first place 2017 Düsseldorf Mixed doubles
Silver medal – second place 2016 Kuala Lumpur Team
Silver medal – second place 2015 Suzhou Mixed doubles
Silver medal – second place 2014 Tokyo Team
Bronze medal – third place 2010 Moscow Team
Bronze medal – third place 2008 Guangzhou Team
Asian Games
Silver medal – second place 2014 Incheon Team
Bronze medal – third place 2010 Guangzhou Doubles
Bronze medal – third place 2010 Guangzhou Mixed doubles

Kasumi Ishikawa (石川 佳純, Ishikawa Kasumi) (born 23 February 1993) is a retired Japanese table tennis player.[1] A regular member of the Japanese national team, she won a silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics, a bronze at the 2016 Summer Olympics, and a silver medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Women's team.[6]

She is a left-handed inverted rubber shakehand player who primarily uses speedy top-spins and loops in offensive play.

  1. ^ a b "ITTF players' profiles". International Table Tennis Federation. Archived from the original on 4 October 2012. Retrieved 10 August 2010.
  2. ^ "ISHIKAWA Kasumi – Profile". kasumiishikawa.com. Retrieved 4 August 2012.
  3. ^ "Japanese Medalists in London 2012 Olympics". joc.or.jp. Japanese Olympic Committee. Retrieved 17 January 2014.
  4. ^ "Biographies". 2014 Incheon Asian Games Organizing Committee. Retrieved 3 May 2015.[permanent dead link]
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference ITTF world ranking was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ "Table Tennis ISHIKAWA Kasumi - Tokyo 2020 Olympics". Tokyo 2020. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 16 August 2021. Retrieved 16 August 2021.