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Mikiko Takada
Japanese badminton player From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Mikiko Takada (高田幹子/たかだみきこ, Takada Mikiko; born 1955) later, Mikiko Ue (宇卫幹子) is a former Japanese badminton player.
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Career
Takada won the Japanese National Badminton Championships back to back in 1977 and 1978 with her partner, Atsuko Tokuda. Takada and Tokuda won the All England Open Badminton Championships women's doubles title in 1978.[1] The pair managed to get back to the final in 1979 but lost to the Indonesian pair of Imelda Wiguna and Verawaty Wiharjo.[2] Takada and Tokuda also won the Denmark Open in 1979.[3] In the Badminton World Cup, Takada won two women's doubles bronze medals, one with Tokuda and another one with Saori Kondo.[4][5]
Takada helped Japan's team to win consecutive Uber Cups in 1978 and 1981.[6][7] Paired with Tokuda and Kondo respectively, she lost only one match in the 1978 and 1981 challenge rounds in four matches against Indonesia.[8]In the first ever official IBF world rankings released in 1978 Takada and Tokuda were the first women's doubles team to be ranked number one.[9]
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Achievements
World Cup
Women's doubles
International tournaments
Women's doubles
Invitational tournament
Women's doubles
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References
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