Fujio Watanabe
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| Born | 1939 (age 86–87) | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Table tennis | ||||||||||||||
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Fujio Watanabe (渡部 藤男, Watanabe Fujio; born c. 1939) is a Japanese former para table tennis player. He and his doubles partner Yasunori Igari won Japan's first ever Paralympic gold medal at the 1964 Summer Paralympics.
When he was 22 years old, he had a spinal cord injury while unloading a log from a truck.