Kichiji Tamasu

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Kichiji Tamasu ( Japanese 田 舛 吉 二 , Tamasu Kichiji ; * around 1935, † January 1956 ) was a Japanese table tennis player . With the team he won the gold medal twice at world championships .

Tamasu won the individual competition of the Japanese high school championship in 1951. In 1953 he won the Asian Championships together with Yoshiko Tanaka in mixed and with the team. The Japanese Association nominated him for the 1954 and 1955 World Championships . At both events he was world champion in the team competition. Especially at the 1955 World Cup, he was only used in important team fights. In the final he won against Ladislav Štípek .

In 1956, Tamasu died of a heart attack at the age of 21 .

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
JPN  Asian Championship TTFA  1953  Tokyo  JPN       gold  1
JPN  World Championship  1955  Utrecht  NED   last 256  last 64  Quarter finals  1
JPN  World Championship  1954  Wembley  CLOSELY   last 16  last 16  last 64  1

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ according to DTS magazine , 1956/6 p. 16 - division around the table tennis globe Tamasu died at the age of 21.
  2. ↑ a b Tim Boggan : History of US Table Tennis Vol III Chapter XV. USA Table Tennis, 2003, accessed November 28, 2013 .
  3. ^ The first report was made on March 1, 1956 in the DTS magazine , 1956/5 p. 1, d. H. Tamasu most likely died in February or January 1956.
  4. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jtta.or.jp
  5. ↑ ア ジ ア 選手 権 大会 ／ ア ジ ア カ ッ プ . (No longer available online.) Japanese Table Tennis Association, archived from the original on December 13, 2010 ; Retrieved September 28, 2009 (Japanese). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jtta.or.jp
  6. ↑ Kichiji Tamasu results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed September 15, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Tamasu, Kichiji
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 田 舛 吉 二 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH around 1935
DATE OF DEATH January 1956