is a former Japanese international table tennis player.

Table tennis career

He won five medals in doubles, and team events in the World Table Tennis Championships. The five World Championship medals included two

gold medal A gold medal is a medal awarded for highest achievement in a non-military field. Its name derives from the use of at least a fraction of gold in form of plating or alloying in its manufacture. Since the eighteenth century, gold medals have bee ...

s in the team event for Japan. The other three medals consisted of all

bronze medal A bronze medal in sports and other similar areas involving competition is a medal made of bronze awarded to the third-place finisher of contests or competitions such as the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, etc. The outright winner receive ...

s won in the doubles with Toshiaki Tanaka and

Toshihiko Miyata is a Japanese former international table tennis player. Table tennis career He won a bronze medal in the men's doubles with Keisuke Tsunoda at the 1957 World Table Tennis Championships. He won a gold medal A gold medal is a medal awarde ...

respectively and the mixed doubles with Taeko Namba. He also won an English Open title.

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Japanese male table tennis players 1933 births Living people Asian Games medalists in table tennis Table tennis players at the 1958 Asian Games Asian Games silver medalists for Japan Asian Games bronze medalists for Japan Medalists at the 1958 Asian Games World Table Tennis Championships medalists {{Japan-tabletennis-bio-stub

Table tennis career

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