is a
Japanese
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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
World Table Tennis Championships
The World Table Tennis Championships are table tennis competitions sanctioned by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). The World Championships have been held since 1926, biennially since 1957. Five individual events, which include men ...
medals; fours
silver medal
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s and three
bronze medal
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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
Sachiko Yokota
is a former Japanese international table tennis player.
Table tennis career
She won a three bronze medals at the 1973 World Table Tennis Championships and 1975 World Table Tennis Championships; two in the Corbillon Cup (women's team event) an ...
.
After retiring from table tennis he studied sports science at the
Osaka Sports University and became a noted sports scientist.
See also
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List of table tennis players
This list of table tennis players is alphabetically ordered by surname. The main source of the information included in this page is the official International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) database. More detailed information about their careers is ...
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List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists
Results of individual events
The tables below are medalists of individual events (men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles and mixed).
Men's singles
Medal table
Women's singles
The champion of women's singles in 1937 was declared ...
References
1947 births
Japanese male table tennis players
Living people
World Table Tennis Championships medalists
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