Maharu Yoshimura
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| Nationality | Japanese | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 3 August 1993 Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 61 kg (134 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 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 (吉村 真晴, Yoshimura Maharu, born 3 August 1993) is a Japanese table tennis player.[1]
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. 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 (ニンゲン観察バラエティ モニタリング), Yoshimura and Koki Niwa disguised themselves as two old men and proceeded to shock normal folks in table tennis.[6]
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". 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]
- Official Website
- Maharu Yoshimura at World Table Tennis
- Maharu Yoshimura at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- 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
- Universiade 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 people
- Table tennis players at the 2022 Asian Games