Etsuko Toganoo


Etsuko Toganoo 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 and doubles at the prestigious All-England Championships. These three helped Japan to dominate the Uber Cup competition from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s. In 1977 Mrs. Toganoo won the women's doubles with Emiko Ueno at the first IBF World Championships.

Achievements

World Championships

Women's doubles
YearVenuePartnerOpponentScoreResult
1977Malmö Isstadion, Malmö, Sweden

Asian Games

Women's doubles
YearVenuePartnerOpponentScoreResult
1970Kittikachorn Stadium, Bangkok, Thailand

Asian Championships

Mixed doubles
YearVenuePartnerOpponentScoreResult
1976Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium, Hyderabad, India

International tournament (10 titles, 3 runners-up)

Women's singles
YearTournamentOpponentScoreResult
1970Denmark Opensilver2

Invitational tournament

Women's doubles
YearTournamentPartnerOpponentScoreResult
1974 World Invitational Championships