Nobuya Hoshino

Nobuya Hoshino
Personal information
Nationality Japan
Born(1937-02-01)1 February 1937
Osaka, Japan
Died22 February 2020(2020-02-22) (aged 83)
Sport
SportTable tennis
Medal record
Men's table tennis
Representing  Japan
World Championships
Gold medal – first place1961 BeijingDoubles
Bronze medal – third place1961 BeijingMixed
Silver medal – second place1961 BeijingTeam
Gold medal – first place1959 DortmundTeam

Nobuya Hoshino (星野 展弥, Hoshino Nobuya) (February 1, 1937 – February 22, 2020)[1] was an international table tennis player from Japan.[2]

Table tennis career

From 1959 to 1961 he won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the World Table Tennis Championships and in the Asian Table Tennis Championships.[3]

His four World Championship medals[4] included two gold medals in the doubles with Koji Kimura at the 1961 World Table Tennis Championships[5] and in the team event for Japan in 1959.[6][7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 乒坛名宿星野展弥去世 徐寅生李富荣发唁电
  2. ↑ "List of Winners". All About Tennis.
  3. ↑ "ITTF_Database". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
  4. ↑ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123. Archived from the original on 22 September 2018. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
  5. ↑ "Men's doubles results" (PDF). International Table Tennis Federation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 April 2012.
  6. ↑ Montague, Trevor (2004). A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700. The Bath Press. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
  7. ↑ Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian (1987). The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pages 309-312. Guinness Superlatives. ISBN 0-85112-492-5.
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