Machiko Aizawa
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Country	Japan
Medal record Women'sbadminton Representing Japan Uber Cup 1972 Tokyo Women's team 1975 Jakarta Women's team Asian Games 1970 Bangkok Women's doubles 1970 Bangkok Women's team 1974 Tehran Women's team

Machiko Aizawa (相沢 マチ子,Aizawa Machiko) is a formerbadminton player from Japan who won Japanese national and major international titles from the late 1960s to the mid-1970s.

Though highly competitive in singles, Machiko's greatest success came in women's doubles withEtsuko Takenaka Toganoo. They shared the prestigiousAll-England Championships in 1972, 1973, and 1975.^[1] They won theDanish Open women's doubles title in 1970 and 1974, the quadrennialAsian Games championship in 1970, and theU.S. Open women's doubles title, on their only try, in 1970.^[2] Aizawa played on Japan's 1972Uber Cup (women's international) team which retained the world championship, and its 1975 team which lost the title to Indonesia.^[3]

Women's doubles

Year	Venue	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
1970	Kittikachorn Stadium, Bangkok, Thailand	Etsuko Takenaka	Retno Kustijah Nurhaena	15–11, 15–6	Gold

Women's doubles

Year	Tournament	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
1968	Malaysia Open	Etsuko Takenaka	Noriko Takagi Hiroe Yuki	15–11, 15–10	Winner
1970	Denmark Open	Etsuko Takenaka	Hiroe Amano Noriko Takagi	15–17, 15–12, 15–9	Winner
1970	U.S. Open	Etsuko Takenaka	Susan Whetnall Margaret Boxall	15–10, 15–11	Winner
1971	Denmark Open	Etsuko Takenaka	Noriko Takagi Hiroe Yuki	10–15, 3–15	Runner-up
1972	Denmark Open	Etsuko Takenaka	Noriko Takagi Hiroe Yuki	11–15, 15–11, 15–17	Runner-up
1972	All England Open	Etsuko Takenaka	Margaret Beck Julie Rickard	9–15, 15–8, 15–12	Winner
1973	All England Open	Etsuko Takenaka	Margaret Beck Gillian Gilks	15–10, 10–15, 15–11	Winner
1974	Denmark Open	Etsuko Takenaka	Pernille Kaagaard Ulla Strand	18–15, 15–12	Winner
1975	All England Open	Etsuko Takenaka	Theresia Widiastuti Imelda Wiguna	15–11, 17–14	Winner

Mixed doubles

Year	Tournament	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
1970	US Open	Ippei Kojima	Paul Whetnall Margaret Boxall	8–15, 2–15	Runner-up

Women's doubles

Year	Tournament	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
1974 (Glasgow)	World Invitational Championships	Etsuko Takenaka	Margaret Beck Nora Perry	15–7, 15–8	Gold

• Japanese female badminton players
• Living people
• Badminton players at the 1970 Asian Games
• Badminton players at the 1974 Asian Games
• Asian Games gold medalists for Japan
• Asian Games badminton players for Japan
• Asian Games bronze medalists for Japan
• Medalists at the 1970 Asian Games
• Medalists at the 1974 Asian Games
• 20th-century Japanese sportswomen
• Asian Games gold medalists in badminton
• Asian Games bronze medalists in badminton

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