Yoshio Tomita

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Yoshio Tomita ( Japanese 富田 芳 雄 , Tomita Yoshio ; * around 1933 ) is a Japanese table tennis player . He is a four-time world champion.

In 1950 Tomita won the first single competition of the Japanese high school championship and from 1952 to 1954 the Japanese student championship three times in a row, where he was also successful in doubles in 1953 and 1954. In 1952 he also won the " All-Japanese Table Tennis Championship " ( zen-nihon takkyū senshuken taikai ) in singles. His first major international success was the team victory at the Asian Championships in 1953. From 1954 to 1956 he was nominated three times for World Championships. Every time he won the gold medal with the Japanese team. He posted another title win in 1956 in men's doubles with Ichirō Ogimura . In 1954 he reached the mixed final with Fujie Eguchi .

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
JPN  Asian Championship TTFA  1953  Tokyo  JPN   Semifinals  Quarter finals  Semifinals  1
JPN  World Championship  1956  Tokyo  JPN   Semifinals  gold  Quarter finals  1
JPN  World Championship  1955  Utrecht  NED   last 32  Semifinals  Quarter finals  1
JPN  World Championship  1954  Wembley  CLOSELY   Quarter finals  Semifinals  silver  1

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ according to DTS magazine , 1956/17 issue West (September 5, 1956) page 1 Tomita was 23 years old at this time.
  2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from December 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from June 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ ITTF statistics ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on September 16, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Tomita, Yoshio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 富 田芳雄 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH around 1933