Nobuya Hoshino

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

Nobuya Hoshino
Nationality Japan
Born(1937-02-01)1 February 1937
Osaka, Japan
Died22 February 2020(2020-02-22) (aged 83)
Medal record
Men's table tennis
Representing  Japan
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 1961 Beijing Doubles
Bronze medal – third place 1961 Beijing Mixed
Silver medal – second place 1961 Beijing Team
Gold medal – first place 1959 Dortmund Team

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 2016-03-04.
  4. "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123.
  5. "Men's doubles results" (PDF). International Table Tennis Federation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-04-12.
  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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