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Toshiaki Tanaka

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Toshiaki Tanaka
Toshiaki Tanaka at the 1955 World Championships
Personal information
NationalityJapan
Born(1935-02-24)24 February 1935
Hokkaido,Japan
Died6 February 1998(1998-02-06)(aged 62)
Medal record
Table tennis
RepresentingJapan
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 1957 Stockholm Singles
Silver medal – second place 1957 Stockholm Doubles
Gold medal – first place 1957 Stockholm Team
Silver medal – second place 1956 Tokyo Singles
Bronze medal – third place 1956 Tokyo Doubles
Gold medal – first place 1956 Tokyo Team
Gold medal – first place 1955 Utrecht Singles
Bronze medal – third place 1955 Utrecht Mixed doubles
Gold medal – first place 1955 Utrecht Team

Toshiaki Tanaka(Điền trung lợi minh,Tanaka Toshiaki,24 February 1935 – 6 February 1998)[1]was a Japanese internationaltable tennisplayer.

Table tennis career

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From 1955 to 1957 he won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events in theWorld Table Tennis Championships.[2][3][4][5][6]

He also won anEnglish Opentitle.

The nine World Championship medals included fivegold medals;two in the singles at the1955 World Table Tennis Championshipsand1957 World Table Tennis Championshipsand three in the team event for Japan.[7][8]

Legacy

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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 clubTTV TanakainEtten-Leur.The club still exists and never changed its name.[9]

In 1997 Tanaka was inducted into theITTF Hall of Fame.

See also

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References

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Wikimedia Commons has media related toToshiaki Tanaka.
  1. ^"Tanaka Toshiaki".Nihon jinmei daijiten+Plus(in Japanese). Kōdansha.Retrieved25 January2013.
  2. ^"Profile".Table Tennis Guide.
  3. ^"Table Tennis World Championship medal winners".Sports123.
  4. ^TANAKA Toshiaki (JPN).ittf.com
  5. ^"List of Winners".All About Tennis.
  6. ^"Men's Singles results"(PDF).International Table Tennis Federation. Archived fromthe original(PDF)on 2012-04-12.
  7. ^Montague, Trevor (2004).A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700.The Bath Press.ISBN0-316-72645-1.
  8. ^Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian (1987).The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pages 309-312.Guinness Superlatives.ISBN0-85112-492-5.
  9. ^TTV Tanaka News.tanaka.nl. February 2013.


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