Kasumi Ishikawa

Kasumi Ishikawa is a retired Japanese table tennis player, born on 23 February 1993, and a long-time member of the Japanese national team. She won Olympic team medals at three Games: silver in 2012, bronze in 2016 and silver at the 2020 Tokyo Games. A left-handed inverted rubber shakehand player, she relies on speedy top-spins and loops in attack. Her whole family plays or played the sport, and her mother Kumi is her coach. She reached the semi-finals of the women's singles in London in 2012, the first Japanese player to do so, and in 2017 she won the world mixed doubles title with Maharu Yoshimura in Düsseldorf. She announced her retirement from international table tennis on 1 May 2023.