Fujio Watanabe

Japanese para table tennis player

Fujio Watanabe

Born

1939 (age 84–85)
Kaneyama, Fukushima,^[1] Japan

Medal record

Men's para table tennis

Representing Japan
Paralympic Games
	1964 Tokyo	Doubles C

Fujio Watanabe (渡部藤男, Watanabe Fujio, born c. 1939) is a Japanese former para table tennis player. He and his doubles partner Yasunori Igari won Japan's first ever Paralympic gold medal at the 1964 Summer Paralympics.^[2]

When he was 22 years old, he had a spinal cord injury while unloading a log from a truck.^[2]

References

^ "開幕まで１００日卓球と出合い自立６４年東京大会「金」の元代表". Mainichi Shimbun (in Japanese). 30 May 2016. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
^ ^a ^b "東京五輪から５０年日本初のパラ五輪金・渡部藤男さん、６年後「ぜひ応援に」". Sankei Shimbun (in Japanese). 10 October 2014. Retrieved 18 January 2020.^{[permanent dead link]}