Etsuko Toganoo

Etsuko Toganoo (栂野尾 悦子, Toganoo Etsuko) (formerly Etsuko Takenaka) is a retired Japanese badminton player noted for her consistency and impassive demeanor, who won numerous international titles during the 1970s. Along with her contemporaries Hiroe Yuki (Niinuma) and Noriko Takagi (Nakayama), she is one of three Japanese women to have won both singles (1970) and doubles (1972, 1973, 1975, 1977) at the prestigious All-England Championships.[1] These three helped Japan to dominate the Uber Cup (women's world team) competition from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s.[2] In 1977 Mrs. Toganoo won the women's doubles with Emiko Ueno at the first IBF World Championships.[3]

Etsuko Toganoo
Medal record
Women's badminton
Representing  Japan
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 1977 Malmö Women's doubles
Uber Cup
Gold medal – first place 1972 Tokyo Women's team
Silver medal – second place 1975 Jakarta Women's team
Asian Games
Gold medal – first place 1970 Bangkok Women's doubles
Gold medal – first place 1970 Bangkok Women's team
Bronze medal – third place 1970 Bangkok Mixed doubles
Bronze medal – third place 1974 Tehran Women's team
Asian Championships
Silver medal – second place 1976 Hyderabad Mixed doubles

References
  1. Pat Davis, The Guinness Book of Badminton (Enfield, Middlesex, England: Guinness Superlatives Ltd., 1983) 106, 108.
  2. Davis, 133-136.
  3. Davis, 109.
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