Keisuke Tsunoda
{{Short description|Japanese table tennis player (1933–2024)}}
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{{MedalCompetition|World Table Tennis Championships}}
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{{Nihongo|Keisuke Tsunoda|角田 啓輔|Tsunoda Keisuke|19 January 1933 – 1 September 2024}} was a Japanese international table tennis player.{{cite web|url=https://tabletennis.guide/profile.php?name=keisuke-tsunoda-126024|title=Profile|publisher=Table Tennis Guide}}
Table tennis career
Tsunoda won five medals in doubles,{{cite web|url=http://www.ittf.com/museum/WorldChResultsMD.pdf|title=Men's doubles results|publisher=International Table Tennis Federation|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120412045730/http://www.ittf.com/museum/WorldChResultsMD.pdf|archive-date=12 April 2012}} and team events in the World Table Tennis Championships.
The five World Championship medals included two gold medals in the team event for Japan.{{cite book|last=Montague|first=Trevor|title=A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700|year=2004|publisher=The Bath Press|isbn=0-316-72645-1}}{{cite book|last=Matthews/Morrison|first=Peter/Ian|title=The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pages 309-312|year=1987|publisher=Guinness Superlatives|isbn=0-85112-492-5|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/guinnessencyclop00matt}}
The other three medals consisted of all bronze medals won in the doubles with Toshiaki Tanaka and Toshihiko Miyata respectively and the mixed doubles with Taeko Namba.{{cite web|url=http://sports123.com/tte/index.html|title=Table Tennis World Championship medal winners|publisher=Sports123}}
He also won an English Open title.
Tsunoda died on 1 September 2024, at the age of 91.{{Cite news|url=https://world-tt.com/blog/news/archives/208741|title=1956・57年世界選手権男子団体優勝メンバー、角田啓輔さんが逝去 |newspaper=卓球王国|agency=株式会社 卓球王国|date=2 September 2018|language=ja|accessdate=23 September 2024}}
See also
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Category:Japanese male table tennis players
Category:Asian Games medalists in table tennis
Category:Table tennis players at the 1958 Asian Games
Category:Asian Games silver medalists for Japan
Category:Asian Games bronze medalists for Japan
Category:Medalists at the 1958 Asian Games