Masahiro Maehara is a Japanese former international table tennis player. He won a

silver medal A silver medal in sports and other similar areas involving competition is a medal made of, or plated with, silver awarded to the second-place finisher, or runner-up, of contests or competitions such as the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, etc ...

at the

1977 World Table Tennis Championships The 1977 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Birmingham at the then newly opened National Exhibition Centre, from March 28 to April 7, 1977. Organisation During these Championships, players and officials stayed at the Student Accommodat ...

in the Swaythling Cup (men's team event) with Tetsuo Inoue, Mitsuru Kono,

Norio Takashima is a former Japanese international table tennis player. He won five World Table Tennis Championships medals in five consecutive championships. See also * List of table tennis players * List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists Resu ...

and Tokio Tasaka for Japan. He then won two bronze medals at the

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and

1981 World Table Tennis Championships The 1981 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Novi Sad (Yugoslavia) from April 14 to April 26, 1981. Results Team Individual References External linksITTF Museum {{World Table Tennis Championships World Table Tennis Champions ...

. He was later the Director of the Japanese Table Tennis Association.

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Japanese male table tennis players Living people Asian Games medalists in table tennis Table tennis players at the 1978 Asian Games Medalists at the 1978 Asian Games Asian Games silver medalists for Japan World Table Tennis Championships medalists 1953 births {{Japan-tabletennis-bio-stub