| Yoshihito Miyazaki | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Nationality |  Japan | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 8 April 1959 | |||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | |||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 165 lb (75 kg) | |||||||||||||||||
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Yoshihito Miyazaki (born 8 April 1959) is a Japanese former international table tennis player.
Miyazaki won two bronze medals for Japan at the 1986 Asian Games in Seoul. [1] He returned to Seoul for the 1988 Summer Olympics, where he finished fourth in his group for singles and third in doubles (with Seiji Ono). [2]
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