Cláudio Kano
Cláudio Kano | |
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Full name | Cláudio Mitsuhiro Kano |
Nationality | Brazil |
Born | São Paulo, Brazil | 18 December 1965
Died | 1 July 1996 São Paulo, Brazil | (aged 30)
Medal record |
Cláudio Mitsuhiro Kano (18 December 1965 – 1 July 1996) was a Japanese Brazilian table tennis player who helped popularize the sport in Brazil and "spearheaded Brazilian table tennis in the 1990s".[1]
Aged 17, he shared two gold medal, in men's doubles and men's team, at the Pan American Games. He went on to win five more golds, three silvers, and two bronze at later Pan American Games. He died in a motorcycle accident in his native São Paulo, aged 30.[2][3] He had participated in the Summer Olympic Games of 1988 and 1992, but lost in the first stages of both.[4][5]
References[]
- ^ "Profile". ITTF.com. Archived from the original on 26 January 2013. Retrieved 29 January 2016.
- ^ "Brazilian table tennis star dies after crash", Toronto Star; accessed 29 January 2016.
- ^ News-Tribune (Rome) obituary, 3 July 1996, pg 13.
- ^ "ITTF database: KANO Claudio Mitsuhiro (BRA)". ITTF.com. Archived from the original on 5 September 2012. Retrieved 29 January 2016.
- ^ "Cláudio Kano". Olympedia. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
External links[]
- Claudio Kano at the International Olympic Committee
- Cláudio Mitsuhiro Kano at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
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- Pan American Games bronze medalists for Brazil
- Brazilian people of Japanese descent
- Sportspeople from São Paulo
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- Table tennis players at the 1983 Pan American Games
- Table tennis players at the 1987 Pan American Games
- Table tennis players at the 1991 Pan American Games
- Table tennis players at the 1995 Pan American Games
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- Medalists at the 1987 Pan American Games
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