Masaru Masuda is a former taijiquan athlete from Japan. He won gold medals at the

1993 East Asian Games The 1st East Asian Games were held in Shanghai, People's Republic of China from May 9 to May 18, 1993. The main stadium for the inaugural edition of the games was the Hongkou Football Stadium. Shanghai also hosted a number of sports-themed exhibit ...

and the

1994 Asian Games The 1994 Asian Games ( ja, 1994年アジア競技大会, ''Senkyūhyakukyūjūyon-nen Ajia kyōgi taikai''), also known as the XII Asiad and the 12th Asian Games ( ja, 第12回アジア競技大会, Daijūni-kai Ajia kyōgi taikai), were held from ...

, being the first Japanese wushu athlete to do so at each respective multi-sport event. He also won a silver medal in taijiquan at the 1993 World Wushu Championships in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Since his competitive career, he assumed a position at Waseda University and has published works on taijiquan.{{Cite journal, last=Sato, first=Shinji, last2=Makita, first2=Shigeru, last3=Uchida, first3=Ryusei, last4=Ishihara, first4=Shunichi, last5=Masuda, first5=Masaru, date=2010, title=Effect of Tai Chi Training on Baroreflex Sensitivity and Heart Rate Variability in Patients With Coronary Heart Disease, url=https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ihj/51/4/51_4_238/_article, journal=International Heart Journal, volume=51, issue=4, pages=238–241, doi=10.1536/ihj.51.238, via= J-STAGE, doi-access=free

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Living people Japanese wushu practitioners Wushu practitioners at the 1990 Asian Games Wushu practitioners at the 1994 Asian Games Asian Games medalists in wushu Asian Games gold medalists for Japan Medalists at the 1994 Asian Games Year of birth missing (living people)

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