Tokyo Tasaka

Tokyo Tasaka ( Japanese 田 阪 登 紀 夫 , Tasaka Tokyo ; born September 4, 1947 ) is a Japanese sports scientist and former table tennis player . He won seven medals at world championships in the late 1960s and 1970s.

Career

Tokyo Tasaka studied social sciences at Waseda University , which he graduated in 1970. He achieved his first international success in table tennis in 1968 at the Asian Championships , where he won doubles with Nobuhiko Hasegawa and with the team; in singles he reached the semifinals. In 1970 he was second in singles and doubles with Katsuyuki Abe . He won another gold medal in a team competition in 1972, there was silver in doubles with Nobuhiko Hasegawa and bronze in mixed. In 1974 it was enough for bronze in doubles and silver with the team.

From 1969 to 1977 Tokyo Tasaka took part in four world championships . He was third in the individual in 1969 after a semi-final defeat against Eberhard Schöler . In doubles with Nobuhiko Hasegawa he took silver behind the Swedes Hans Alsér / Kjell Johansson . In 1971 he won bronze in doubles alongside Hasegawa, with the team he made it to the final. In 1977 there were still two silver medals, namely in mixed with Sachiko Yokota and with the team.

In the ITTF world rankings , he finished sixth in early 1973.

After his active table tennis career, he began studying sports science at the Osaka Sports University , which he graduated in 1983. He holds a professorship at Dōshisha University in Kyōtanabe , where he researched physical fitness in cross-country skiing until the beginning of the 90s, the oxygen uptake of university athletes until the mid-90s and, since then, physical fitness in table tennis.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
JPN	Asian Championship ATTU	1974	Yokohama	JPN	last 16	Semifinals	Quarter finals	2
JPN	Asian Championship ATTU	1972	Beijing	CHN	Quarter finals	silver	Semifinals	1
JPN	Asian Championship TTFA	1970	Nagoya	JPN	silver	silver	Quarter finals
JPN	Asian Championship TTFA	1968	Jakarta	INA	Semifinals	gold		1
JPN	World Championship	1977	Birmingham	CLOSELY	last 32	last 16	silver	2
JPN	World Championship	1973	Sarajevo	YUG	last 64	last 16	Quarter finals	3
JPN	World Championship	1971	Nagoya	JPN	last 16	Semifinals	last 32	2
JPN	World Championship	1969	Munich	FRG	Semifinals	silver	Quarter finals

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} 田 阪 登 紀 夫 （タ サ カ ト キ オ） . (No longer available online.) In: 研究者 デ ー タ ベ ー ス (researcher database ). Dōshisha University, archived from the original on June 10, 2016 ; Retrieved May 28, 2016 (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.  
2. ↑ World ranking list (accessed on May 26, 2016)
3. ↑ Tokyo Tasaka results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed May 28, 2016)