Fujio Watanabe Explained

Fujio Watanabe
Birth Place:Kaneyama, Fukushima,[1] Japan
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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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 開幕まで100日 卓球と出合い自立 64年東京大会「金」の元代表. Mainichi Shimbun. ja. 30 May 2016. 18 January 2020.
  2. Web site: 東京五輪から50年 日本初のパラ五輪金・渡部藤男さん、6年後「ぜひ応援に」. ja. Sankei Shimbun. 10 October 2014. 18 January 2020.