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Keisuke Tsunoda

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Keisuke Tsunoda
Personal information
Nationality Japan
Born(1933-01-19)19 January 1933
Died1 September 2024(2024-09-01) (aged 91)
Medal record
Representing  Japan
World Table Tennis Championships
Gold medal – first place 1956 team
Bronze medal – third place 1956 doubles
Gold medal – first place 1957 team
Bronze medal – third place 1957 doubles
Bronze medal – third place 1957 mixed doubles

Keisuke Tsunoda (角田 啓輔, Tsunoda Keisuke, 19 January 1933 – 1 September 2024) was a Japanese international table tennis player.[1]

Table tennis career

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Tsunoda won five medals in doubles,[2] and team events in the World Table Tennis Championships.

The five World Championship medals included two gold medals in the team event for Japan.[3][4]

The other three medals consisted of all bronze medals won in the doubles with Toshiaki Tanaka and Toshihiko Miyata respectively and the mixed doubles with Taeko Namba.[5]

He also won an English Open title.

Tsunoda died on 1 September 2024, at the age of 91.[6]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
  2. ^ "Men's doubles results" (PDF). International Table Tennis Federation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 April 2012.
  3. ^ Montague, Trevor (2004). A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700. The Bath Press. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
  4. ^ Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian (1987). The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pages 309-312. Guinness Superlatives. ISBN 0-85112-492-5.
  5. ^ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123.
  6. ^ "1956・57年世界選手権男子団体優勝メンバー、角田啓輔さんが逝去". 卓球王国 (in Japanese). 株式会社 卓球王国. 2 September 2018. Retrieved 23 September 2024.
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