Toshiaki Tanaka
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 Toshiaki Tanaka at the 1955 World Championships | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
24 February 1935 Hokkaido, Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 6 February 1998 (aged 62) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Toshiaki Tanaka (田中 利明 Tanaka Toshiaki, 24 February 1935 – 6 February 1998)[1] was a Japanese table tennis player. From 1955 to 1957 he won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the World Table Tennis Championships.[2]
Legacy
After the 1955 World Championships Tanaka became popular in the Netherlands, where on 30 May 1969 Rien van Thoor and Marius van Rijckevorsel established the table tennis club TTV Tanaka in Etten-Leur. The club still exists and never changed its name.[3]
In 1997 Tanaka was inducted into the ITTF Hall of Fame.
References
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- ↑ "Tanaka Toshiaki". Nihon jinmei daijiten+Plus (in Japanese). Kōdansha. Retrieved 25 January 2013.
- ↑ TANAKA Toshiaki (JPN). ittf.com
- ↑ TTV Tanaka News. tanaka.nl. February 2013.
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