Koji Sugeno ( ja, 菅野浩二, born 24 August 1981) is a Japanese

wheelchair tennis Wheelchair tennis is one of the forms of tennis adapted for wheelchair users. The size of the court, net height and rackets are the same, but there are two major differences from pedestrian tennis: athletes use specially designed wheelchairs, a ...

player. At the

2020 Summer Paralympics The , branded as the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, was an international multi-sport parasports event held from 24 August to 5 September 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. They were the 16th Summer Paralympic Games as organized by the International Paralym ...

, he and

Mitsuteru Moroishi is a Japanese wheelchair tennis player. Also available iEnglish He represented Japan at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in quad singles and quad doubles and at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in quad singles and quad doubles. His doubles partner both ...

won bronze medals for Japan in the quad doubles event. Sugeno also finished 4th in the

quad singles Quad as a word or prefix usually means 'four'. It may refer to: Government * Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, a strategic security dialogue between Australia, India, Japan, and the United States * Quadrilateral group, an informal group which inc ...

event. He was born in Ageo and resides in

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Koji Sugeno at the IPC Tokyo 2020 website
1981 births Living people Japanese male tennis players Japanese wheelchair tennis players Paralympic wheelchair tennis players for Japan Paralympic bronze medalists for Japan Paralympic medalists in wheelchair tennis Wheelchair tennis players at the 2020 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2022 Asian Para Games 20th-century Japanese people 21st-century Japanese people Sportspeople from Saitama Prefecture {{Japan-tennis-bio-stub