Keisuke Tsunoda (角田 啓輔, Tsunoda Keisuke, 19 January 1933 – 1 September 2024) was a Japanese international table tennis player.[1]
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality |  Japan |
| Born | 19 January 1933 |
| Died | 1 September 2024 (aged 91) |
Table tennis career
editTsunoda 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
editReferences
edit- ^ "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
- ^ "Men's doubles results" (PDF). International Table Tennis Federation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 April 2012.
- ^ Montague, Trevor (2004). A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700. The Bath Press. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
- ^ Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian (1987). The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pages 309-312. Guinness Superlatives. ISBN 0-85112-492-5.
- ^ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123.
- ^ "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.
