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MIMA ITO

Japan's Mima Ito competes against Romania's Bernadette Szocs during the team event at the table tennis world championships in Busan, South Korea, on Thursday.
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Feb 23, 2024
Japanese women secure medal in team event at table tennis world championships
The Japanese women are guaranteed at least bronze in Busan, South Korea, as there is no third-place contest.
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Oct 9, 2022
Japan loses to China in women's final at table tennis team worlds
In the men's semifinals, Japan also lost to China, but forced the table tennis superpower to a full five matches in the Chinese city of Chengdu.
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Jan 30, 2022
Mima Ito tops Hina Hayata to claim national title
Olympic mixed doubles champion Mima Ito won her third singles title, and first in three years, at the national table tennis championships in Tokyo on Sunday.
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Nov 30, 2021
Mima Ito and Hina Hayata lose in women's doubles final at worlds
Ito, winner of three medals at the Tokyo Olympics, and Hayata, a Games reserve, were seeking to become the first Japanese women's doubles pair in 54 years to win a world title.
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Nov 29, 2021
Japan table tennis pairs move on to world championship finals
Two teams of Japanese paddlers advanced to the finals of the mixed and women's doubles events at the table tennis world championships in Houston on Sunday.
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Nov 28, 2021
Mima Ito and Kasumi Ishikawa make quarterfinal exits at worlds
Ito faced Wang Yidi for a place in the semifinals, but the Tokyo Olympic singles bronze medalist managed to win only one of five games.
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Aug 7, 2021
At Tokyo Games, Japan puts crack in China's table tennis great wall
Despite his own retirement, Jun Mizutani believes the future of the Japanese men's game is bright and the country should look optimistically to Paris in 2024.
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Aug 5, 2021
What to watch on Day 13 of the Tokyo Olympics
The first medals for sport climbing are ready to be handed out while karate makes its long-awaited Olympic debut as Tokyo 2020 moves into the final homestretch.
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Aug 2, 2021
Japan off to winning start in table tennis men's team event
Led by veteran Jun Mizutani, Japan got off to a winning start in the table tennis men's team competition on Monday, easing to a 3-0 win over Australia at the Tokyo Games.
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Jul 31, 2021
Will Japan’s gold rush end with judo? Not likely.
Japan has won nine golds in judo so far, the most by a single nation at an Olympics. Japan set the previous mark of eight in 2004.
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Jul 29, 2021
Japan's Mima Ito adds to medal haul with bronze in women's singles table tennis
Ito became the first Japanese woman to win an Olympic table tennis singles medal.
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Mar 14, 2021
Tomokazu Harimoto and Mima Ito claim singles titles in Doha
Japanese players swept the singles events at the inaugural World Table Tennis Star Contender tournament in Doha on Saturday, with Mima Ito winning the women's title before 17-year-old prodigy Tomokazu Harimoto claimed the men's crown.
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Jan 17, 2021
Kasumi Ishikawa holds off fellow Olympian Mima Ito for Japan title
Kasumi Ishikawa came from behind to beat fellow Tokyo Olympian Mima Ito in the national championships' women's singles final on Sunday to end a four-tournament winless drought.
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May 8, 2020
Table tennis star Mima Ito taking Tokyo 2020 delay in stride
Table tennis star Mima Ito was disappointed by the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics, due to the COVID-19 outbreak, because it took away the chance to reach her goal of winning a gold medal as a teenager.
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May 2, 2020
Left in limbo: Olympic and Paralympic hopefuls struggle with postponement
Tokyo's Olympic dream is still alive — for now — but many athletes have been left wondering if their hard work will all be for nothing.
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Apr 17, 2020
Mima Ito climbs to No. 2 in world rankings, Japan's highest ever
Mima Ito has climbed to second in the women's singles world rankings, achieving the highest position ever held by a Japanese table tennis player, male or female, since the current system began in 1991, according to the ITTF's listing for April released Thursday.
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Feb 24, 2020
Tomokazu Harimoto, Mima Ito clinch first titles of season
Tomokazu Harimoto and Mima Ito each claimed their first titles of the ITTF World Tour season at the Hungarian Open in Budapest on Sunday.
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Jan 6, 2020
Tomokazu Harimoto, Mima Ito headline Japan's 2020 table tennis squad
The Japan Table Tennis Association announced Monday the six players who will represent the Olympic host nation at the 2020 Tokyo Games.
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Nov 18, 2019
Mima Ito captures first singles title of season on World Tour
Table tennis star Mima Ito defeated the former women's singles world No. 1 to capture her first title on this year's International Table Tennis Federation World Tour at the Austria Open on Sunday.
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Apr 29, 2019
Mima Ito, Hina Hayata come up short in final at world championships
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