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Toru Goto

1934 - Today

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Toru Goto (後藤 暢, Gotō Tōru; born June 26, 1934) is a former freestyle swimmer from Japan, who represented his native country at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. There he won a silver medal as a member of the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay team, alongside Yoshihiro Hamaguchi, Hiroshi Suzuki and Teijiro Tanikawa. Goto was born in Fukuoka. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2024). Toru Goto is the 2,024th most popular athlete (up from 2,041st in 2024), the 1,834th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,733rd in 2019) and the 34th most popular Japanese Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Toru Goto ranks 2,024 out of 6,025. Before him are Andrei Chemerkin, Sanda Toma, Vittorio Tamagnini, Patrick Leahy, Kenny Roberts Jr., and Leni Junker. After him are Frank Saker, Yelena Romanova, Khristo Markov, Franco Trincavelli, Désiré Beaurain, and Alejandro Casañas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Toru Goto ranks 515. Before him are Florence Henderson, Joe Williams, Gert Blomé, King Curtis, Mr. Fuji, and Lars-Eric Lundvall. After him are Van Williams, Ahmad NikTalab, Todor Diev, Juan Manuel Bordeu, Eladio Rojas, and Paddy Driver.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Toru Goto ranks 1,834 out of 6,245. Before him are Jun Maeda (1975), Lynn Okamoto (1970), Tomomi Fujimura (1978), Takashi Maeda (1981), Kyōko Koizumi (1966), and Hideaki Hagino (1973). After him are Shidzue Katō (1897), Atsushi Terui (1980), Tatsuya Kawahara (1985), Hiroshi Ohashi (1959), Takuya Ito (1976), and Kazuhiro Ninomiya (1946).

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Among ATHLETES In Japan

Among athletes born in Japan, Toru Goto ranks 34. Before him are Kenjiro Shinozuka (1948), Yoshihiro Akiyama (1975), Kim Eui-tae (1941), Masushi Ouchi (1943), Shunkichi Hamada (1910), and Mayumi Aoki (1953). After him are Shinji Hosokawa (1960), Nobutaka Taguchi (1951), Hideaki Tomiyama (1957), Hiroshi Yamamoto (1962), Koji Murofushi (1974), and Daniel Martínez (null).

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