is a

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former international

table tennis Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...

player. He won seven

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medals; fours

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s and three

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s. His doubles partners were

Nobuhiko Hasegawa was one of the best table tennis players worldwide from 1966 to 1974. Table tennis career From 1966 until 1974 he won five gold medals at world championships and two golds at the Asian Games. In total he won ten World Championship medals Hi ...

and

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. After retiring from table tennis he studied sports science at the Osaka Sports University and became a noted sports scientist.

References

1947 births Japanese male table tennis players Living people World Table Tennis Championships medalists {{Japan-tabletennis-bio-stub

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