Kenji Watanabe
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Born | (1969-07-17)July 17, 1969 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | September 18, 2017(2017-09-18) (aged 48) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Breaststroke | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kenji Watanabe (渡辺 健司, Watanabe Kenji, July 17, 1969 – September 18, 2017) was a Japanese breaststroke swimmer. He represented his native country in three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1984. His best Olympic result was the 7th place (2:14.70) in the Men's 200m Breaststroke event at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. He was the grandson of Hisakichi Toyoda, who won a gold medal in the 4 × 200 m freestyle in the 1932 Summer Olympics.
At the 1986 Asian Games in Seoul, Watanabe won the gold medal in the 200m breaststroke and the bronze medal in the 100m breaststroke.
Watanabe again won gold in the 200m breaststroke at the 1990 Asian Games in Beijing. He also won silver medals in the 100m breaststroke and the 4 × 100 m medley relay.
Watanabe died at his home on September 18, 2017. He was 48 years old.[1]
References
- ^ Japanese Olympian Kenji Watanabe Passes Away at Home in Tokyo
External links
- Kenji Watanabe at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Kenji Watanabe at Olympics.com
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- 1954: Mamoru Tanaka (JPN)
- 1958: Masaru Furukawa (JPN)
- 1962: Kiyoshi Nakagawa (JPN)
- 1966: Koichi Yamanami (JPN)
- 1970: Nobutaka Taguchi (JPN)
- 1974: Nobutaka Taguchi (JPN)
- 1978: Shigehiro Takahashi (JPN)
- 1982: Naritoshi Matsuda (JPN)
- 1986: Kenji Watanabe (JPN)
- 1990: Kenji Watanabe (JPN)
- 1994: Wang Yiwu (CHN)
- 1998: Zhu Yi (CHN)
- 2002: Kosuke Kitajima (JPN)
- 2006: Kosuke Kitajima (JPN)
- 2010: Naoya Tomita (JPN)
- 2014: Dmitriy Balandin (KAZ)
- 2018: Yasuhiro Koseki (JPN)
- 2022: Qin Haiyang (CHN)
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