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former international
table tennis Table tennis (also known as ping-pong) is a racket sport derived from tennis but distinguished by its playing surface being atop a stationary table, rather than the Tennis court, court on which players stand. Either individually or in teams of ...
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
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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 His ...
and Sachiko Yokota. 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 A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, bu ...


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1947 births Japanese male table tennis players Living people World Table Tennis Championships medalists 20th-century Japanese sportsmen {{Japan-tabletennis-bio-stub