Maharu Yoshimura (
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![]() Yoshimura Maharu at the 2016 World Team Table Tennis Championships | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nationality | Japanese | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan | 3 August 1993|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 61 kg (134 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Playing style | right-handed, shakehand grip | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Equipment(s) | Butterfly Custon (ZL Carbon), Butterfly Tenergy 05 (BH, FH) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Highest ranking | 15 (May 2016) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Current ranking | 105 (May 2023) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Life and career
edit1993–2010: Early life and background
editYoshimura was born in Ibaraki Prefecture to a Filipina mother and a Japanese father. He has two younger brothers, namely Kazuhiro and Tomohisa, who are also table tennis players. His first name is a Japanese transliteration of the Tagalog word "Mahal", meaning "beloved".[2]
2011–present
editIn 2011, while in junior high school, he competed in the February Table Tennis Tournament Japan where he advanced to the top 12. He defeated Kazuhiro Zhang in the semi-finals but lost to Jun Mizutani in the final game. His achievements include the Asian Championships (New Delhi, India; the first victory of a Japanese player in the men's singles[3]) and the All Japan Table Tennis Championships. At the 2015 World Table Tennis Championships, Yoshimura won a silver medal in the mixed doubles event with Kasumi Ishikawa. In 2016, he competed in the 2016 Summer Olympics and won a silver medal in the men's team event with Jun Mizutani and Koki Niwa.[4] At the 2017 World Table Tennis Championships, Yoshimura won a gold medal in the mixed doubles event with Kasumi Ishikawa.
Career records
edit- Japan Top 12 Table Tennis Tournament (2011)
- Men's singles runner-up
- World Junior Table Tennis Championships (2011)
- 3rd in men's singles
- 3rd in men's doubles
- Interscholastic athletic competition (2011)
- Men's doubles winner
- 3rd in men's singles table tennis
- Asian Junior Table Tennis Championships (2011)
- Men's doubles runner up
- Won men's singles
- All Japan Table Tennis Championships (2012)
- Won the men's singles
- Japan Open (2015)
- Men's singles runner-up
In popular culture
editMaharu Yoshimura had a minor role in the 2017 film Mixed Doubles.[5]
In a 2016 segment of the Japanese variety show Ningen Kansatsu Variety Monitoring (ニンゲン
References
edit- ^ "Maharu Yoshimura profile". Rio2016.com. Rio 2016 Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 25 November 2016. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
- ^ "
水谷 止 めた!高校生 吉村 が初 優勝 /卓球 " [Mizutani stopped! High school student Yoshimura wins for the first time / Table tennis]. Archived from the original on 25 May 2024. Retrieved 23 January 2012. - ^ "Maharu Yoshimura Strikes Gold in New Delhi to Prevent Chinese Clean Sweep". ITTF. Retrieved 14 September 2012.
- ^ "Rio 2016 Team men Results - Table Tennis". Olympics.
- ^ "
新垣 結衣 ×瑛 太 「ミックス。」に水谷 &石川 ら現役 卓球 選手 出演 ". Excite (in Japanese). 17 August 2017. Retrieved 31 October 2019. - ^ "あの
人 がまさかの出演 ‼︎モニタリングにあのリオオリンピック銀 メダリストが登場 !". Naver Matome (in Japanese). 7 November 2016. Retrieved 23 November 2019.