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Ito Mima's rise in ranking over the years. Sort by: Add a Comment. gladyswong. OP • 5 yr. ago. A really big fan of Ito Mima so I decided to chart her success throughout the years (ever since her ranking appeared on the ITTF website) just for fun! Amazing to see how far she has come.
- Aren’T You Talking About Ping Pong?
- Destined to Win
- Strict Upbringing
- Intimidating Size
- Ying and Yang of The So-Called “Miu Mima” Pair
- Results Thus Far at Tokyo 2020
No, the Olympic sport of table tennis, known as takkyu(卓球) in Japanese, is different from ping pong. Contrary to popular opinion, the two games are, in fact, not the same. Only the serve must hit the table on each side of the net in table tennis, whereas in ping pong, every shot must hit the table on both sides of the net. As you may recall from su...
Anybody who has ever played a team sport with one or two stand-out players has probably realized that such talent is often sustained by parents who can be overly supportive. Unlike the kids on the team who are just there to have a good time, these players—and their parents—are out to win. With every successive year, this “support” tends to become e...
Ito, who won her first Olympic medal, a bronze, at the 2016 Olympics in Rio, is said to have “announced” to her parents at age 2 that she wanted to follow in their footsteps (as if she had a choice). From that point, Ito has been trained intensively with a very strict upbringing. Many in Japan believe that her upbringing has been too harsh. It is s...
Despite standing only 152cm (5’ 0”), Ito intimidates opponents who are much taller. Ito uses her petite stature as an advantage. While she can in no way be characterized as a mouse, Ito’s small size enables her to confuse and frighten her opponents, somewhat like how a mouse can terrify an elephant. Combined with an intense mental focus on winning,...
Both from Shizuoka Prefecture near Mt. Fuji, Ito was only 4 years old when she first paired up with Miu Hirano, who had just turned 5. The two would often play together as doubles partners. They first played doubles together at the age of five in a tournament for second-graders and younger. The pair later won the 2014 German Open, earning them a Gu...
Together with teammate Jun Mizutani, Ito won the gold medal in mixed doubles on July 26. Three days later, she snagged another bronze medal in women’s singles. Together with Miu Hirano and Kasumi Ishikawa, yesterday, Ito beat a rival team from Hong Kong to reach the semi-final of the women’s team bracket. We wish Ito and her teammates the best of l...
Mima Ito (伊藤 美誠, Itō Mima, born 21 October 2000) is a Japanese table tennis player. [5] [6] She won a bronze medal in the Women's Team event at the 2016 Summer Olympics when she was 15 years old. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, she won the gold medal with her partner Jun Mizutani in the Mixed Doubles event which made its debut, a bronze ...
Oct 4, 2023 · Mima Ito, born in 2000, is a Japanese table tennis prodigy who has left an indelible mark on the sport. Her career is punctuated with outstanding achievements and a relentless drive to challenge Chinese dominance in women’s table tennis. At just 15 years old, she won a bronze medal in the women’s team event at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Setting records from a young age Japan’s Mima Ito has been lighting up the scene for some time now and is the hot favourite to challenge China’s finest for the sport’s most prestigious trophies. Twice a silver medallist with Japan at the World Team Championships and a Women’s Team bronze medal winner at Rio 2016, […]
"Although I wanted to be close to Mima, I had to put aside that part of me as a mother and acted tough" 🗣Explore the relationship between Mima Ito and her m...
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Jan 18, 2020 · History maker to world beater. Born Saturday 21st October 2000, Mima Ito has just entered the final year of her teens but has already become somewhat of a seasoned veteran on the international table tennis scene having represented her country on the biggest of stages for a good decade already. Ito caught the eye young from a very young age ...
