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.[2]

Fujio Watanabe
Born1939 (age 8182)
Kaneyama, Fukushima,[1] Japan

When he was 22 years old, he suffered a spinal cord injury while unloading a log from a truck.[2]

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