Fujio Watanabe
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| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1939 (age 86–87) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Table tennis |
Medal record | |
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Fujio Watanabe (渡部 藤男, Watanabe Fujio; born c. 1939) is a Japanese former para table tennis player. He and his doubles partner Yasunori Igari won Japan's first ever Paralympic gold medal at the 1964 Summer Paralympics.[2]
When he was 22 years old, he had a spinal cord injury while unloading a log from a truck.[2]
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- Sportspeople from Fukushima Prefecture
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- Paralympic medalists in table tennis
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- Medalists at the 1964 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic gold medalists for Japan
- Paralympic table tennis players for Japan
- People with paraplegia
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- 20th-century Japanese sportsmen
- Japanese Paralympic medalist stubs
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