Fujio Watanabe
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.
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| Born | 1939 (age 84–85) Kaneyama, Fukushima, Japan | ||||||||||||||
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When he was 22 years old, he had a spinal cord injury while unloading a log from a truck.
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