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Masaru Furukawa Personal information Born 1936 Medal recordMen's swimming Competitor for 
JapanOlympic Games Gold 1956 Melbourne 200 m breaststroke Masaru Furukawa (古川 勝 Furukawa Masaru, born January 6, 1936 in Hashimoto, Wakayama) is a Japanese swimmer and Olympic champion. He competed at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, where he received a gold medal in the 200 m breaststroke.[1]
World records
Furukawa improved the world record of 200 metres breaststroke (long course) four times in 1954 and 1955, and his last record lasted until 1958.
Awards
Furukawa was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1981.
References
- ^ "1956 Olympics – Melbourne, Australia – Swimming" – databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on September 5, 2008)
Olympic Champions in Men's 200 m Breaststroke 1908: Frederick Holman • 1912: Walter Bathe • 1920: Håkan Malmrot • 1924: Bob Skelton • 1928: Yoshiyuki Tsuruta • 1932: Yoshiyuki Tsuruta • 1936: Tetsuo Hamuro • 1948: Joe Verdeur • 1952: John Davies • 1956: Masaru Furukawa • 1960: William Mulliken • 1964: Ian O'Brien • 1968: Felipe Muñoz • 1972: John Hencken • 1976: David Wilkie • 1980: Robertas Žulpa • 1984: Victor Davis • 1988: József Szabó • 1992: Mike Barrowman • 1996: Norbert Rózsa • 2000: Domenico Fioravanti • 2004: Kosuke Kitajima • 2008: Kosuke Kitajima
Categories:- Japanese swimmers
- 1936 births
- 1993 deaths
- Olympic swimmers of Japan
- Swimmers at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for Japan
- Former world record holders in swimming
- Olympic medalists in swimming
- Japanese swimming biography stubs
- Japanese Olympic medalist stubs
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