Kiyoshi Tanabe

Japanese boxer (born 1940)

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Kiyoshi Tanabe

Tanabe (left) at the 1960 Olympics

Born

(1940-10-10) October 10, 1940 (age 83)

Aomori City, Japan

Statistics

Weight(s)

Flyweight

Height

159 cm (5 ft 3 in)

Stance

Orthodox

Boxing record

Total fights

Wins

Wins by KO

Losses

Draws

Medal record

Representing Japan

Olympic Games
	1960 Rome	Flyweight
Asian Games
	1962 Jakarta	Bantamweight

Kiyoshi Tanabe (田辺清, born October 10, 1940) is a retired Japanese boxer who won a bronze medal at the 1960 Olympics.^[1]

Biography

As an amateur Tanabe won a bronze medal at the 1960 Olympics, becoming the first Japanese boxer to win an Olympic medal. His amateur record was 115-5 (30RSC). He made his professional debut in 1963, and won the Japanese flyweight title in 1965, which he defended twice before vacating. In February 1967, he fought WBA & WBC flyweight champion Horacio Accavallo in a non-title match, and won by 6th-round TKO.^[2]

Tanabe was scheduled to get his first world title shot in July 1967, and expectations heightened around the talented fighter. However, it was discovered that he had suffered a detached retina in his right eye, which forced him into retirement. He had surgery on his right eye, but lost his vision two years later.^{[citation needed]}