What is Tsuyoshi Yamanaka?
[[File:Murray Rose, Tsuyoshi Yamanaka, John Konrads 1960.jpg|thumb|Yamanaka (centre) in 1960]] {{Nihongo|'''Tsuyoshi Yamanaka'''|山中 毅|Yamanaka Tsuyoshi|18 January 1939 &ndash; 10 February 2017}} was a [[Japan]]ese [[Freestyle swimming|freestyle]] [[swimmer]]. He won a total of five [[Olympic]] medals, four silvers and a bronze. He won medals at the [[1956 Summer Olympics|1956]] ([[Melbourne]]), [[1960 Summer Olympics|1960]] ([[Rome]]) and [[1964 Summer Olympics]] ([[Tokyo]]). He was born in [[Wajima, Ishikawa|Wajima]], [[Ishikawa Prefecture]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.olympic.org/tsuyoshi-yamanaka|title=Tsuyoshi Yamanaka|publisher=[[International Olympic Committee]]|access-date=14 February 2017}}</ref> Yamanaka died from [[pneumonia]] on 10 February 2017 in [[Tokyo]], at the age of 78.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://kyodonews.net/news/2017/02/14/100264|title=Swimming: 5-time Olympic medalist Yamanaka dies|work=Kyodo News|date=14 February 2017|access-date=14 February 2017|archive-date=14 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170214181531/http://kyodonews.net/news/2017/02/14/100264|url-status=dead}}</ref> ==References== {{Commons category}} {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Yamanaka, Tsuyoshi}} [[Category:1939 births]] [[Category:2017 deaths]] [[Category:Olympic bronze medalists for Japan]] [[Category:Olympic silver medalists for Japan]] [[Category:Japanese swimmers]] [[Category:Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics]] [[Category:Medalists at the 1960 Summer Olympics]] [[Category:Medalists at the 1956 Summer Olympics]] [[Category:Sportspeople from Ishikawa Prefecture]] {{Japan-sports-bio-stub}}