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Takao Sakurai

1941 - 2012

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Takao Sakurai (桜井 孝雄, Sakurai Takao; September 25, 1941 – January 10, 2012) was a Japanese boxer who won a gold medal at the 1964 Olympics. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Takao Sakurai is the 1,713th most popular athlete (down from 1,559th in 2019), the 1,646th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,561st in 2019) and the 26th most popular Japanese Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Takao Sakurai ranks 1,713 out of 6,025. Before him are Kęstutis Šapka, Marc Bouissou, Jack Lovelock, Eddy Ottoz, Bob Tisdall, and Jalmari Eskola. After him are Carl Abrahamsson, Otto Licha, Juan Rodríguez, Daniel Kelly, Frank Dixon, and María Pérez.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Takao Sakurai ranks 543. Before him are Graciela Borges, Luigi Ferrando, Irina Petrescu, Viktor Putyatin, Ulf Sterner, and Helga Niessen Masthoff. After him are Bobby Hutcherson, Jagjit Singh, Rubén Correa, Vyacheslav Vedenin, Adoor Gopalakrishnan, and Karlo Stipanić. Among people deceased in 2012, Takao Sakurai ranks 386. Before him are Jenni Rivera, Rino Ferrario, Eric Sykes, Verghese Kurien, Margaret Mahy, and Vladimir Astapovsky. After him are Boris Razinsky, Robert Sabatier, Peter Struck, Georg Leber, Elza Ibrahimova, and Paul Kurtz.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Takao Sakurai ranks 1,646 out of 6,245. Before him are Jo Nakajima (1980), Kotaro Nakao (1969), Yoshinobu Miyake (1939), Ai Iijima (1972), Tsuru Morimoto (1970), and Shuntaro Furukawa (1972). After him are Kunio Hatoyama (1948), Takahiro Sakurai (1974), Toshio Masuda (1959), Seiji Ueda (1952), Yuji Horii (1954), and LiSA (1987).

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Among ATHLETES In Japan

Among athletes born in Japan, Takao Sakurai ranks 26. Before him are Takashi Ishimoto (1935), William Phillips (null), Akitsugu Konno (1944), Masao Harada (1912), Naohiro Ikeda (1940), and Yoshinobu Miyake (1939). After him are Haruki Uemura (1951), Kenjiro Shinozuka (1948), Yoshihiro Akiyama (1975), Kim Eui-tae (1941), Masushi Ouchi (1943), and Shunkichi Hamada (1910).

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