Kasumi Ishikawa

Kasumi Ishikawa won team medals at three consecutive Olympic Games, London, Rio and Tokyo, which takes one line to write and over a decade of holding a place at the centre of a brutally competitive national squad to achieve. She left Yamaguchi as a junior high school student for Shitennoji in Osaka, effectively a table tennis production line, and somewhere along the way taught herself enough Chinese to talk directly with players from the sport's dominant nation. That detail tells you what kind of athlete she was: less raw force, more preparation and intelligence. She retired at thirty in 2023 and now tours the country putting rackets into children's hands.

Name (English)

Kasumi Ishikawa

Name (Japanese)

石川佳純

Born

February 23, 1993 (age 33)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Rooster

Origin

Yamaguchi, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan

Height

2 cm

Occupation

table tennis player

High school

Shitennoji Junior and Senior High School

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttp://kasumiishikawa.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/kasumi.ishikawa_official/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%9F%B3%E5%B7%9D%E4%BD%B3%E7%B4%94

Tags

• Yamaguchi Prefecture
• table tennis player

Last updated

2026-07-26

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.