Shizuka Narahara


Shizuka Narahara is a Japanese former table tennis player. From Hiroshima, she was in the city on 6 August 1945, when the first of two atomic bombs was dropped on Japan.

Table tennis career

From 1952 to 1955 she won five medals in doubles and team events in the World Table Tennis Championships.
The five World Championship medals included two gold medals in the doubles with Tomie Nishimura at the 1952 World Table Tennis Championships and the team event also at the 1952 World Table Tennis Championships.