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Yasuji Miyazaki

1916 - 1989

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Yasuji Miyazaki (宮崎 康二, Miyazaki Yasuji) (October 15, 1916 – December 30, 1989) was a Japanese swimmer who competed at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Miyazaki was born in Kosai, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. He was selected for the Japanese Olympic team for the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics at the age of 15, and was one of the youngest members. In the semi-finals of the 100 m freestyle event, he surpassed the Olympic record previously set by American champion Johnny Weissmuller with a time of 58.2 seconds, and won the gold medal. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yasuji Miyazaki is the 43rd most popular swimmer (down from 32nd in 2019), the 1,139th most popular biography from Japan (up from 1,203rd in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Swimmer.

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Among SWIMMERS

Among swimmers, Yasuji Miyazaki ranks 43 out of 709. Before him are Valéria Gyenge, Aileen Riggin, Charles Daniels, Ilona Novák, Arvo Aaltonen, and George Hodgson. After him are Judit Temes, Barbara Krause, Shigeo Arai, Károly Bartha, Willy den Ouden, and Steve Clark.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Yasuji Miyazaki ranks 178. Before him are Arno Peters, Olga Lepeshinskaya, Fiorenzo Angelini, Herbert Norkus, Nadya Nozharova, and Anne Hébert. After him are Nelly Landry, Ralph Nelson, Shigeo Arai, Herbert Friedman, Edward Binns, and Guy Lapébie. Among people deceased in 1989, Yasuji Miyazaki ranks 180. Before him are Yūsaku Matsuda, Anders Rydberg, Carl Dahlhaus, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, Lawrence Stevens, and Princess Eugénie of Greece and Denmark. After him are János Farkas, José Bustamante y Rivero, Jean-Michel Charlier, Christine Jorgensen, Sándor Weöres, and Thorkild Hansen.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yasuji Miyazaki ranks 1,139 out of 6,245. Before him are Mutsuhiro Watanabe (1918), Shinichi Hoshi (1926), Kiyoshi Atsumi (1928), Masato Kudo (1990), Sumio Iijima (1939), and Tsubouchi Shōyō (1859). After him are Misuzu Kaneko (1903), Paul Yoshigoro Taguchi (1902), Kazuhiko Inoue (1954), Saigō Jūdō (1843), Moto Hagio (1949), and Itō Sukeyuki (1843).

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Among SWIMMERS In Japan

Among swimmers born in Japan, Yasuji Miyazaki ranks 1. After him are Shigeo Arai (1916), Kusuo Kitamura (1917), Yoshiyuki Tsuruta (1903), Hideko Maehata (1914), Katsuo Takaishi (1906), Shiro Hashizume (1928), Daichi Suzuki (1967), Kosuke Kitajima (1982), Ai Shibata (1982), Kosuke Hagino (1994), and Daiya Seto (1994).

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