Atsuko Tokuda

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Atsuko Tokuda
Personal information
CountryJapan
Born (1955-09-15) 15 September 1955 (age 68)
Medal record
Women's badminton
Representing  Japan
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 1980 Jakarta Women's doubles
World Cup
Gold medal – first place 1980 Kyoto Women's doubles
Bronze medal – third place 1979 Tokyo Women's doubles
Uber Cup
Gold medal – first place 1978 Auckland Women's team
Gold medal – first place 1981 Tokyo Women's team
Silver medal – second place 1975 Jakarta Women's team
Asian Games
Silver medal – second place 1982 New Delhi Women's team
Silver medal – second place 1986 Seoul Women's team
Bronze medal – third place 1982 New Delhi Women's doubles
Bronze medal – third place 1978 Bangkok Women's team

Atsuko Tokuda (徳田 敦子, Tokuda Atsuko) is a retired badminton player of Japan who won Japanese national and international titles in the late 1970s and the 1980s. Her international victories included the All-England women's doubles with Mikiko Takada in 1978[1] and the Danish (Denmark) Open women's doubles in 1981 and 1988 with Takada and with Yoshiko Yonekura Tago respectively. Though most of Tokuda's international success came in doubles, she won the Japanese national singles title in 1978. She earned a bronze medal at the 1980 IBF World Championships in women's doubles with Yonekura.[2] Tokuda helped Japan win world team titles in the Uber Cup competitions of 1978 and 1981 with a strong winning record in her individual matches.[3]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Pat Davis, The Guinness Book of Badminton (Enfield, Middlesex, England: Guinness Superlatives Ltd., 1983) 108.
  2. ^ "Details of championship", World Badminton, 16.
  3. ^ Davis, 136.