Hiroji Satoh
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| Full name | SATOH Hiroji | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | February 3, 1925 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | June 4, 2000 (aged 75) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Hiroji Satoh (佐藤 博治, Satō Hiroji, 3 February 1925 – 4 June 2000) was an international table tennis player from Japan.
Table tennis career
From 1952 to 1953 he won two medals in the singles and team events in the
Olympic sport it would become.[1]
He won bronze medal in the team event at the 1952 World Table Tennis Championships[2][3] and a gold medal in the men's singles at the 1952 World Table Tennis Championships.[4]
See also
References
- ^ "SATOH Hiroji (JPN)". ITTF.
- ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
- ISBN 0-85112-492-5.
- ^ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123.
External links
- Hiroji Satoh and the first sponge rubber 1952 on YouTube
- Spongers Seldom Chisel on Sports Illustrated
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