Tsuyoshi Yamanaka

Tsuyoshi Yamanaka was a Japanese freestyle swimmer, born on 18 January 1939 and died on 10 February 2017. He swam the 400 metre, 1500 metre and 4x200 metre relay events at the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Olympics and won four silver medals, and he also earned a bronze relay medal in 1964 by swimming in the heat. At the 1958 Asian Games he won both the 400 metre and the 1500 metre freestyle. While studying at the University of Southern California he broke the 200 metre world record three times within two months in 1961, and he also held world records over 400 metres and in the 4x200 metre relay. After graduating from Waseda University he headed the Itoman Swimming School in Osaka, he was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1983, and he ran unsuccessfully for the House of Councillors in 1995. He died of pneumonia in Tokyo at the age of 78.