Shigeo Itoh
Shigeo Ito (Japanese伊藤 繁 雄Ito Shigeo; born January 21, 1945 in Shunan, Yamaguchi, Japan ) was one in the 1960s and 1970s, to the best table tennis players in the world.
Itō first played left-handed, but turned his game around on the right hand. He held the bat in Japanese penholder style and played a spin -fitting, reduced tempo offensive game.
Shigeo Ito was in 1969 in Munich two - time world champion
- In the Men's Singles ( when he was still with 3:2 sets won by 0:2 sets down against Eberhard Scholer ) and
- With the men's team ( in which he won along with Nobuhiko Hasegawa and Mitsuru Kono against the German team ( Eberhard Scholer, Bernt Jansen, Wilfried Lieck ) 5-3 ).
1971 in Nagoya, he was again runner-up, when he lost in the final surprising as defending against the 18 -year-old Stellan Bengtsson. Particularly noteworthy to Shigeo Ito is that he achieved his success without a coach. His technique he acquired solely through the observation of other players and your own experiments. His world title in 1969 he owed not least Hikosuke Tamasu, in the break after the third set ( set at 1:2 residue ) persuaded him to a change of tactics to go the unpleasant section Schölers Jump out of the way.
Clubs
- Senshu University, Tokyo
Achievements
- Participation in World Table Tennis Championships 1969 in Munich 1st Place Individual
- 1st place with men's team
- 3rd doubles (with Mitsuro Kono )
- 3rd place mixed doubles ( with Toshiko Kowada )
- 2nd Single
- 2nd place men's team
Results from the ITTF database
== References == ↑ ITTF Statistics ( accessed on 9 September 2011) Table tennis world champion in men's singles 1926: Roland Jacobi | 1928 Zoltán Mechlovits | 1929 Fred Perry | 1930: Victor Barna | 1931: Miklos Szabados | 1932-1935: Victor Barna | 1936: Stanislav Kolář | 1937: Richard Bergmann | 1938: Bohumil Váňa | 1939: Richard Bergmann | 1947: Bohumil Váňa | 1948: Richard Bergmann | 1949: Johnny Leach | 1950: Richard Bergmann | 1951: Johnny Leach | 1952: Hiroji Satō | 1953: Ferenc Sido | 1954: Ichirō Ogimura | 1955: Toshiaki Tanaka | 1956 Ichirō Ogimura | 1957: Toshiaki Tanaka | 1959: Rong Guotuan | 1961, 1963, 1965, Zhuang Zedong | 1967: Nobuhiko Hasegawa | 1969 Shigeo Ito | 1971: Stellan Bengtsson | 1973: Xi Enting | 1975: István Jonyer | 1977: Mitsuru Kono | 1979: Seiji Ono | 1981, 1983: Guo Yuehua | 1985, 1987: Jiang Jialiang | 1989: Jan- Ove Waldner | 1991: Jörgen Persson | 1993: Jean -Philippe Gatien | 1995: Kong Linghui | 1997: Jan- Ove Waldner | 1999: Liu Guoliang | 2001: Wang Liqin | 2003: Werner Schlager | 2005, 2007: Wang Liqin | 2009: Wang Hao | 2011, 2013: Zhang Jike
- Table tennis players (Japan)
- World Champion (table tennis)
- Born in 1945
- Japanese
- Man