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Takashi Ishimoto

1935 - 2009

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Takashi Ishimoto (石本隆, Ishimoto Takashi; April 6, 1935 in Kochi – March 1, 2009 in Kochi, Japan) was a butterfly swimmer from Japan. He won the silver medal in the men's 200 m butterfly at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. In the late 1950s, he broke the world record in the men's 100m butterfly several times. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Takashi Ishimoto is the 1,521st most popular athlete (up from 1,755th in 2019), the 1,575th most popular biography from Japan (up from 1,623rd in 2019) and the 20th most popular Japanese Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Takashi Ishimoto ranks 1,521 out of 6,025. Before him are Sylvi Saimo, Károly Takács, Tatyana Prorochenko, Martina Hellmann, Miklós Ambrus, and Josef Kloimstein. After him are Judo at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's 66 kg, Siegfried Brietzke, Alberto Winkler, János Urányi, Antony, and Hans Walter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Takashi Ishimoto ranks 433. Before him are Carlo Facetti, Avtandil Koridze, James Cotton, Aki Schmidt, Frank Robinson, and Maria Vicol. After him are Barbro Martinsson, Charles Grimes, Alberto Mariotti, Daniel Quinn, Gerald R. Molen, and Lucile Wheeler. Among people deceased in 2009, Takashi Ishimoto ranks 308. Before him are Alan A'Court, Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro, Guillermo Ortiz, Shōichi Nakagawa, William Alston, and Jaime Belmonte. After him are Klára Fried-Bánfalvi, Dell Hymes, Igor Starygin, Yevgeny Vesnik, József Sákovics, and Nikolay Anikin.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Takashi Ishimoto ranks 1,575 out of 6,245. Before him are Genichi Takahashi (1980), Rokurō Naya (1932), Takashi Imoto (1976), Hiromi Hara (1958), Shōichi Nakagawa (1953), and Marie Kondo (1984). After him are Sola Aoi (1983), Yuki Tazawa (1979), Toshio Hosokawa (1955), Yasumasa Kanada (1948), Yasutomi Nishizuka (1932), and Kei Okami (1859).

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Among ATHLETES In Japan

Among athletes born in Japan, Takashi Ishimoto ranks 20. Before him are Tetsuo Hamuro (1917), Shunpei Uto (1918), Kōkichi Tsuburaya (1940), Yoshihisa Yoshikawa (1936), Hisakichi Toyoda (1912), and Tsuyoshi Yamanaka (1939). After him are William Phillips (null), Akitsugu Konno (1944), Masao Harada (1912), Naohiro Ikeda (1940), Yoshinobu Miyake (1939), and Takao Sakurai (1941).

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