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Yoshio Tomita
Nationality  Japan
Born1933
Medal record
Men's table tennis
Representing   Japan
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 1956 Tokyo Singles
Gold medal – first place 1956 Tokyo Doubles
Gold medal – first place 1956 Tokyo Team
Bronze medal – third place 1955 Utrecht Doubles
Gold medal – first place 1955 Utrecht Team
Bronze medal – third place 1954 Wembley Doubles
Silver medal – second place 1954 Wembley Mixed
Gold medal – first place 1954 Wembley Team

Yoshio Tomita (富田 芳雄, Tomita Yoshio) is a male former international table tennis player from Japan.

Table tennis career

From 1955 to 1957 he won eight medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the World Table Tennis Championships. [1] [2]

The eight World Championship medals [3] [4] included four gold medals; one in the doubles at the 1956 World Table Tennis Championships with Ichiro Ogimura and three in the team event. [5] [6]

See also

References

  1. ^ "ITTF_Database". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2013-01-25.
  2. ^ "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
  3. ^ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123.
  4. ^ "Men's Singles results" (PDF). International Table Tennis Federation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-04-12.
  5. ^ Montague, Trevor (2004). A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700. The Bath Press. ISBN  0-316-72645-1.
  6. ^ 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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