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Tsuyoshi Yamanaka

1939 - 2017

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Tsuyoshi Yamanaka (山中 毅, Yamanaka Tsuyoshi, 18 January 1939 – 10 February 2017) was a Japanese freestyle swimmer. He competed in the 400 m, 1500 m and 4 × 200 m events at the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Olympics and won four silver medals; he also helped Japan win a bronze relay medal in 1964 by swimming in the heat, and placed fourth in the 4 × 200 m relay in 1956 and in the 1500m in 1960. At the 1960 Olympics, he swam the fastest leg in the 4 × 200 m relay, yet his team lost to the United States. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tsuyoshi Yamanaka has received more than 21,752 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Tsuyoshi Yamanaka is the 1,251st most popular athlete (down from 791st in 2019), the 1,456th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,298th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Japanese Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Tsuyoshi Yamanaka ranks 1,251 out of 3,059Before him are Wolfgang Schmidt, Ernesto Formenti, Daniel Frank, Wiesław Maniak, Clarence Pinkston, and Ercole Olgeni. After him are Eirik Kvalfoss, Antal Bolvári, Cy Young, Robert Stangland, Marie-José Pérec, and Halil Mutlu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Tsuyoshi Yamanaka ranks 473Before him are Robert A. M. Stern, Josef Černý, Jose Maria Sison, Mary Peters, Harvey Pekar, and Sergio Bianchetto. After him are Gianfranco Leoncini, Józef Grudzień, Jet Harris, Jan Szczepański, Gérard Hausser, and Nur Misuari. Among people deceased in 2017, Tsuyoshi Yamanaka ranks 462Before him are Norman Johnson, Sofía Ímber, Cathleen Synge Morawetz, Nadezhda Olizarenko, Kurt Marti, and Henri Emmanuelli. After him are Cy Young, Giorgio Capitani, George Mostow, Boris Nikolov, Ronald Drever, and Larissa Volpert.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Tsuyoshi Yamanaka ranks 1,456 out of 6,048Before him are Yoshitsugu Matsuoka (1986), Tomio Okamura (1972), Nobuo Fujishima (1950), Sana (1996), Okuro Oikawa (1896), and Eijun Kiyokumo (1950). After him are Kumiko Okae (1956), Norihiro Yagi (1968), Masaaki Shirakawa (1949), Yuji Naka (1965), Jong Tae-se (1984), and Hikaru Nakamura (1987).

Among ATHLETES In Japan

Among athletes born in Japan, Tsuyoshi Yamanaka ranks 17Before him are Hiroshi Suzuki (1933), Kim Eui-tae (1941), Noboru Terada (1917), Yoshinobu Miyake (1939), Tetsuo Hamuro (1917), and Haruki Uemura (1951). After him are Takao Sakurai (1941), Akitsugu Konno (1944), Yoshihisa Yoshikawa (1936), Koji Murofushi (1974), Naoko Takahashi (1972), and Mayumi Aoki (1953).