Kenta Tanaka
Personal information | |||
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Born |
Shiga Prefecture, Japan | 4 May 1988||
Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||
Playing position | Forward | ||
Club information | |||
Current club | HGC | ||
Senior career | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
–2018 | |||
2018– | HGC | ||
National team | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2011– | Japan | 154 | (80) |
Kenta Tanaka (田中 健太, Tanaka Kenta, born 4 May 1988) is a Japanese field hockey player who plays for Dutch club HGC and the Japan national field hockey team as a forward.
He was a part of the Japan squad which won the gold medal at the 2018 Asian Games.[1]
Club career[]
Before the 2018 Asian Games he played club hockey for Japanese club Minoshima Club.[2] After those Asian Games he joined Dutch club HGC.[3][4]
References[]
- ^ "Japan". tms.fih.ch. International Hockey Federation. Retrieved 25 November 2018.
- ^ "Men's Hockey National Team "Samurai Japan" Candidate To Represent Japan in Asian Games" (PDF). hockey.or.jp. Japan Hockey Association. 18 May 2018. Retrieved 25 November 2018.
- ^ "Ambassador of Japan welcomes Kenta Tanaka playing field hockey at HGC in The Hague". dujat.nl. dujat. 9 October 2018. Retrieved 25 November 2018.
- ^ Huiskamp, Frank (9 September 2018). "Japanner Tanaka moet de nieuwe ster worden bij HGC". nrc.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 25 November 2018.
External links[]
- Kenta Tanaka at Olympedia
- Kenta Tanaka at FIH
Categories:
- 1988 births
- Living people
- Japanese male field hockey players
- Male field hockey forwards
- Field hockey players at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic field hockey players of Japan
- Field hockey players at the 2014 Asian Games
- Field hockey players at the 2018 Asian Games
- Asian Games medalists in field hockey
- Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games
- Asian Games gold medalists for Japan
- HGC players
- Expatriate field hockey players
- Japanese expatriates in the Netherlands
- Sportspeople from Shiga Prefecture
- Japanese field hockey biography stubs