Cláudio Kano

Cláudio Mitsuhiro Kano (December 18th, 1965 - July 1st, 1996) was a Japanese Brazilian table tennis player who helped popularize the sport in Brazil and "spearheaded Brazilian table tennis in the 1990s."^[1] At seventeen he shared two gold medal, in men's doubles and men's team, at the Pan American Games. He went on to win five more golds, three silvers, and two bronze at later Pan American Games. He died in a motorcycle accident.^[2][3] In his life he had also participated in the Summer Olympic Games of 1988 and 1992, but lost in the first stages of both.^[4]

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Table tennis in Brazil Organization Table Tennis Association Notable players Hugo Calderano Hugo Hoyama Ricardo Inokuchi Cláudio Kano Carlos Kawai Caroline Kumahara Gui Lin Thiago Monteiro Mariany Nonaka Lígia Silva Gustavo Tsuboi List of table tennis players