Hiroji Satoh

Hiroji Satoh
Full name	SATOH Hiroji
Nationality	Japan
Medal record Men's table tennis Competitor for  Japan World Championships 1952 Bombay Singles 1952 Bombay Team Asian Championships 1953 Tokyo Doubles 1952 Singapore Singles 1952 Singapore Mixed Doubles 1952 Singapore Team

Hiroji Satoh (3 February 1925 — 4 June 2000) is a male former table tennis player from Japan. From 1952 to 1953 he won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the World Table Tennis Championships and in the Asian Table Tennis Championships. Hiroji was the first person to use a sponge on his racket, a common feature of all modern table tennis rackets. Although, at the time it may have seen as though this technological advancement gave him an unfair advantage, it has truly brought table tennis into the modern age and as the Olympic sport we know today.^[1]

See also

• List of table tennis players
• Hiroji Satoh and the first sponge rubber 1952 on YouTube

References

Table tennis in Japan Organization Table Tennis Association Notable players Tomie Edano Fujie Eguchi Naoko Fukazu Ai Fukuhara Manji Fukushima Nobuhiko Hasegawa Miu Hirano Saeko Hirota Nobuya Hoshino Tetsuo Inoue Kasumi Ishikawa Mima Ito Kazuko Ito-Yamaizumi Shigeo Itoh Koji Kimura Seiya Kishikawa Mitsuru Kohno Ken Konaka Yasuko Konno Toshiko Kowada Chire Koyama Kenta Matsudaira Kimiyo Matsuzaki Keiichi Miki Jun Mizutani Sachiko Morisawa Teruo Murakami Taeko Namba Shizuki Narahara Tomie Nishimura Koki Niwa Ichiro Ogimura Yukie Ozeki Tomi Okawa Seiji Ono Hiroji Satoh Masako Seki Hiroshi Takahashi Kichiji Tamasu Toshiaki Tanaka Yoshiko Tanaka Yoshio Tomita Kiiko Watanabe Noriko Yamanaka Maharu Yoshimura List of table tennis players