Masaru Masuda
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| Sport | Wushu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Taijiquan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Masaru Masuda (増田勝) is a former taijiquan athlete from Japan. He won gold medals at the 1993 East Asian Games and the 1994 Asian Games, being the first Japanese wushu athlete to do so at each respective multi-sport event.[1][2][3] He also won a silver medal in taijiquan at the 1993 World Wushu Championships in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.[4] Since his competitive career, he assumed a position at Waseda University and has published works on taijiquan.[5]
