Female Strongest

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The Women's Saikyo Tournament or Tokyo Seimitsu Cup was a Japanese tournament for female professionals. It was discontinued in 2008.

The winner of this tournament played an exhibition match against a Westerner each year: the opponent was decided in a playoff between an American and a European representative selected at the US Go Congress and the European Go Congress, respectively.

Winners and defeated finalists
Ed.	Year	Winner	Runner-up
1st	1999	Shinkai Hiroko	Yashiro Kumiko
2nd	2000	Kato Tomoko	Aoki Kikuyo
3rd	2001	Aoki Kikuyo	Yoshida Mika
4th	2002	Okada Yumiko	Umezawa Yukari
5th	2003	Suzuki Ayumi	Nakazawa Ayako
6th	2004	Shinkai Hiroko	Okada Yumiko
7th	2005	Kobayashi Izumi	Konishi Kazuko
8th	2006	Xie Yimin	Konishi Kazuko
9th	2007	Suzuki Ayumi	Aoki Kikuyo
10th	2008	Kato Keiko	Xie Yimin

In 2016 the event was revived and renumbered, with the sponsorship of SENKO Group Holdings.

Winners and defeated finalists
Ed.	Year	Winner	Runner-up
1st	2016	Xie Yimin	Mukai Chiaki
2nd	2017	Fujisawa Rina	Xie Yimin
3rd	2018	Mannami Nao	Nyu Eiko
4th	2019	Fujisawa Rina	Xie Yimin
5th	2020	Ueno Asami	Xie Yimin
6th	2021	Fujisawa Rina	Ueno Asami

Female Strongest last edited by Dieter on May 13, 2022 - 12:05

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