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) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Maharu Yoshimura (
Life and career
[edit]1993–2010: Early life and background
[edit]Yoshimura 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
[edit]In 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
[edit]Maharu 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.
External links
[edit]- 1993 births
- Living people
- Japanese male table tennis players
- Sportspeople from Ibaraki Prefecture
- Japanese people of Filipino descent
- Olympic table tennis players for Japan
- Table tennis players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic medalists in table tennis
- Olympic silver medalists for Japan
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- World Table Tennis Championships medalists
- Summer World University Games medalists in table tennis
- FISU World University Games silver medalists for Japan
- Medalists at the 2013 Summer Universiade
- Aichi Institute of Technology alumni
- 21st-century Japanese sportsmen
- Table tennis players at the 2022 Asian Games