Shunkichi Hamada
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Native name | 浜田 駿吉 | ||||||||||||||
Nationality | Japanese | ||||||||||||||
Born | Minamiawaji, Hyōgo, Japan | October 19, 1910||||||||||||||
Died | December 7, 2009 Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan | (aged 99).||||||||||||||
Alma mater | Keio University | ||||||||||||||
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Sport | Men’s field hockey | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Shunkichi Hamada (浜田 駿吉, Hamada Shunkichi) (October 19, 1910 – December 7, 2009) was a Japanese field hockey player who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics and 1936 Summer Olympics.
Hamada was born in what is now part of Minamiawaji, Hyōgo, Japan. In 1932, while a student at Keio University, he was selected to be a member of the Japanese field hockey team at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics. He played two matches as goalkeeper. Thirteen goals were scored against him, but the team won the silver medal.
Four years later, Hamada was a member of the Japanese field hockey team at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. The team won two games and lost one in elimination round and did not advance. Hamada played all three matches as goalkeeper, during which eleven goals were scored against him.
Hamada died of heart failure in Shibuya, Tokyo on December 7, 2009 at the age of 99.
References
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Shunkichi Hamada". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2016-12-03.
- "Shunkichi Hamada's obituary". jiji.com (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2016-03-03.
External links
- 1910 births
- 2009 deaths
- Sportspeople from Hyōgo Prefecture
- Keio University alumni
- Japanese male field hockey players
- Olympic field hockey players for Japan
- Field hockey players at the 1932 Summer Olympics
- Field hockey players at the 1936 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists for Japan
- Olympic medalists in field hockey
- Medalists at the 1932 Summer Olympics
- 20th-century Japanese people
- Japanese Olympic medalist stubs
- Japanese field hockey biography stubs