Yoshio Tomita

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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[edit]

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[edit]

References[edit]

  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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