(October 15, 1916 – December 30, 1989) was a

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swimmer who competed at the 1932 Summer Olympics in

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. Miyazaki was born in Kosai, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. He was selected for the Japanese Olympic team for the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics at the age of 15, and was one of the youngest members. In the semi-finals of the 100 m freestyle event, he surpassed the Olympic record previously set by American champion

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with a time of 58.2 seconds, and won the gold medal. The following day, as part of the team competing in the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay event, he won a second gold medal, with the team setting a new world record of 8 minutes 58.4 seconds. After his return to Japan, he entered Keio University and retired from competitive sports.

References

*Killanin, Michael Morris. The Olympic games, 1984: Los Angeles and Sarajevo. John Rodda (1983) *Lohn, John. Historical Dictionary of Competitive Swimming. Scarecrow Press, (2010).

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Miyazaki, Yasuji 1916 births 1989 deaths Sportspeople from Shizuoka Prefecture Keio University alumni Olympic swimmers for Japan Swimmers at the 1932 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Japan World record setters in swimming Medalists at the 1932 Summer Olympics Japanese male freestyle swimmers Olympic gold medalists in swimming 20th-century Japanese people

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