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Yoshinobu Miyake

1939 - Today

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Yoshinobu Miyake (三宅 義信, Miyake Yoshinobu; born November 24, 1939) is a retired Japanese weightlifter and Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Lieutenant. He won one silver and two gold medals at the 1960, 1964 and 1968 Olympics and finished fourth in 1972. He also won world titles in 1962, 1963 and 1965–66. Between 1959 and 1969 Miyake set 25 official world records, including 10 consecutive records in the snatch and nine consecutive records in the total. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yoshinobu Miyake is the 1,700th most popular athlete (down from 1,302nd in 2019), the 1,642nd most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,478th in 2019) and the 25th most popular Japanese Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Yoshinobu Miyake ranks 1,700 out of 6,025. Before him are Miloslava Misáková, Virginie Hériot, Friedrich Maurer, Juris Silovs, Roger Gautier, and Ulf Sterner. After him are Murray Halberg, Herbert Gruber, Heather Oakes, Lien Gisolf, Archibald MacKinnon, and Tom Richards.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Yoshinobu Miyake ranks 516. Before him are Dudley Storey, Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Jan Szczepański, Giuseppe Beghetto, Johanna Dohnal, and Josef Černý. After him are Chris Craft, Orlando Quevedo, Helen Prejean, R. C. Sproul, Mary K. Gaillard, and Karel Schoeman.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yoshinobu Miyake ranks 1,642 out of 6,245. Before him are Kiyonobu Okajima (1971), Masahiro Nakai (1972), Chiaki Kuriyama (1984), Junichi Masuda (1968), Jo Nakajima (1980), and Kotaro Nakao (1969). After him are Ai Iijima (1972), Tsuru Morimoto (1970), Shuntaro Furukawa (1972), Takao Sakurai (1941), Kunio Hatoyama (1948), and Takahiro Sakurai (1974).

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Among ATHLETES In Japan

Among athletes born in Japan, Yoshinobu Miyake ranks 25. Before him are Tsuyoshi Yamanaka (1939), Takashi Ishimoto (1935), William Phillips (null), Akitsugu Konno (1944), Masao Harada (1912), and Naohiro Ikeda (1940). After him are Takao Sakurai (1941), Haruki Uemura (1951), Kenjiro Shinozuka (1948), Yoshihiro Akiyama (1975), Kim Eui-tae (1941), and Masushi Ouchi (1943).

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