Hugo Hoyama

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1969|5|9}}

| birth_place = São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo, Brazil

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| height = 1.69m [https://olimpiadas.uol.com.br/2008/atletas-brasileiros/tenis-de-mesa/hugo-hoyama.jhtm Hoyama profile at UOL]

| weight = 68 kg [https://olimpiadas.uol.com.br/2008/atletas-brasileiros/tenis-de-mesa/hugo-hoyama.jhtm Hoyama profile at UOL]

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Hugo Hoyama (born May 9, 1969) is a retired Brazilian table tennis player of Japanese origin who has won several medals in single, double and team events in the Pan American Games and in the Latin American Championships.{{Cite web |url=http://www.ittf.com/ittf_stats/All_events3.asp?ID=2975 |title=HOYAMA, Hugo (BRA) |author=ITTF Database |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121016114325/http://www.ittf.com/ittf_stats/All_events3.asp?ID=2975 |archive-date=October 16, 2012 |df=mdy-all}} He competed in six editions of the Olympic Games in his career, between Barcelona 1992 and London 2012, and seven Pan American Games, from Indianapolis 1987 to Guadalajara 2011.[https://www.cob.org.br/pt/cob/time-brasil/atletas/hugo-hoyama/ COB Profile] Along with Gustavo Tsuboi and Thiago Monteiro, Hoyama was part of the winning team at the 2007 Pan American Games and 2011 Pan American Games.{{Cite web |url=http://pan.uol.com.br/pan/2007/modalidades/tenisdemesa/brasileiros.jhtm |title=Brasileiros (Tênis de Mesa) |author=UOL Esporte (Pan 2007)}}

Career

Born in São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo, Hoyama broke the Brazilian record of most gold medals in the Pan American Games, which used to belong to the Brazilian swimmer Gustavo Borges{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ho/hugo-hoyama-1.html |title=Hugo Hoyama's Biography and Olympic Records |publisher=Sports Reference |access-date=January 18, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090418023032/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ho/hugo-hoyama-1.html |archive-date=April 18, 2009 |df=mdy-all}}{{cite web |url=http://www.ittf.com/_front_page/ittf_full_story.asp?Year=&General_Catigory=&ID=13014&Category=&Competition_ID=&Player_ID=103727& |title=Hugo Hoyama Sets New Brazilian Pan American Record in Rio de Janeiro |author=Ian Marshall |date=July 25, 2007 |publisher=ITTF |access-date=January 18, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121004230811/http://www.ittf.com/_front_page/ittf_full_story.asp?Year=&General_Catigory=&ID=13014&Category=&Competition_ID=&Player_ID=103727& |archive-date=October 4, 2012 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }} and participated in every Olympic game since debuting as an Olympian at the 1992 Olympic Games{{cite web |title=Hugo Hoyama Profile |url=http://www.nbcolympics.com/athletes/athlete=hugo-hoyama/index.html |publisher=NBC Olympics |access-date=June 29, 2012 |archive-date=June 27, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120627083258/http://www.nbcolympics.com/athletes/athlete=hugo-hoyama/index.html |url-status=dead }} and competed in the 2012 Olympic Games, where he plans to retire as an Olympian.{{cite web |title=Rumo à sexta Olimpíada, Hugo Hoyama projeta despedida e prepara sobrinho como sucessor |url=http://esportes.r7.com/blogs/onibus-olimpico/2012/06/05/rumo-a-sexta-olimpiada-hugo-hoyama-projeta-despedida-e-prepara-sobrinho-como-sucessor/ |publisher=R7 |access-date=June 29, 2012 |language=pt |date=May 6, 2012}}{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

At the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, reaching the round of 16 and finishing in ninth place in the competition, beating world champion Jorgen Persson of Sweden along the way, Hoyama posted the best result in Brazilian tennis table history at the Olympics. He was only surpassed in 2020 by Hugo Calderano, who reached the quarterfinals.[https://www.uol.com.br/esporte/olimpiadas/ultimas-noticias/2021/07/27/superado-hugo-hoyama-celebra-nova-marca-do-tenis-de-mesa-em-olimpiadas.htm Superado, Hugo Hoyama celebra resultado de Hugo Calderano nas Olimpíadas]

In 2007, Hoyama was invited by Carlos Nuzman from the Brazilian Olympic Committee to be the flag bearer for Brazil at the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara. According to Nuzman, the choice of Hoyama displays support from the committee to all sports that Brazilians play.{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJqrVCi4v4w|title = - YouTube|website = YouTube}}

Hugo is the founder of the Hugo Hoyama Foundation.{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9sTvUSo2Ck|title = ESPORTE NA REDE - HUGO HOYAMA (Edição 83)|website = YouTube| date=October 13, 2011 }} Other than his native Portuguese, Hoyama also speaks English, his heritage language of Japanese and Spanish.

In popular culture

Hoyama is briefly mentioned in the eighth episode of the fourth season of The Office American TV series. Table tennis plays a major role in the plot and Dwight Schrute says he even has a life-size poster of Hugo Hoyama in his room.{{Cite episode |title=The Deposition |series=The Office |season=4 |number=12 |quote=All of my heroes, are table tennis players. Zoran Primorac, Jan-Ove Waldner, Wang Tao, Jorg Rosskopf and of course Ashraf Helmy. I even have a life-size poster of Hugo Hoyama on my wall. And the first time I left Pennsylvania, was to go to the hall of fame induction ceremony of Andrzej Grubba.}}

References

External links

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[http://www.hugohoyama.com.br/ Hugo Hoyama's official website (Portuguese)]
[http://www.tabletennismaster.com/hugo-hoyama.html Table Tennis Master] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070809040532/http://www.tabletennismaster.com/hugo-hoyama.html |date=August 9, 2007 }}

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