Hiroshi Takahashi

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Hiroshi Takahashi ( Japanese 高橋 浩 , Takahashi Hiroshi ; * around 1942) is a Japanese table tennis player who became Asian champion four times in the 1960s.

Career

Hiroshi Takahashi was Asian champion in singles, doubles with Manji Fukushima and with the Japanese team in 1963 . The following year he defended the title in the team competition, in singles he came to the semi-finals and in doubles with Hiroaki Ōhashi in the final. In 1966 he won the Asian Games in doubles with Keiichi Miki and with the team.

In 1965 he was nominated for the world championship . Here he won the silver medal with the men's team. In the 5-2 defeat to China in the final, Takahashi scored the two points for Japan. In the individual competitions he reached the quarterfinals: in singles, doubles with Ichirō Ogimura and mixed with Noriko Yamanaka .

In the ITTF world rankings , Hiroshi Takahashi was ranked fourth in mid-1965.

In 1967 he took part in a tournament in Canada. After 1967 he no longer appeared internationally.

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
JPN Asian Championship TTFA 1964 Seoul COR Semifinals silver 1
JPN Asian Championship TTFA 1963 Manila PHI gold gold 1
JPN Asian Games 1966 Bangkok THA gold 1
JPN World Championship 1965 Ljubljana YUG Quarter finals Quarter finals Quarter finals 2

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 高橋 浩 vs 張燮林 . In: 卓 球 強化 書 │ 一流 の 技 を 動画 で 学 べ ！！ . Retrieved December 8, 2010, October 7, 2011 (Japanese).
  2. ↑ According to DTS magazine , 1965/9 page 6, Hiroshi Takahashi was 23 years old in 1965.
  3. ↑ Austrian magazine table tennis show . 1965/4 page 5
  4. ↑ Doppel 1965 ( Memento from April 30, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ) (accessed on April 9, 2019)
  5. ↑ World rankings 1947 to 2001 (Excel; 171 kB) ( Memento from October 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on April 9, 2019)
  6. ↑ Tim Boggan : History of US Table Tennis Vol IV (accessed November 28, 2013)
  7. ↑ ITTF database ( Memento from January 11, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed April 9, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Takahashi, Hiroshi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH around 1942