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Yoshinobu Oyakawa is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder. He represented the United States at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland, where he won the gold medal in the 100-meter backstroke event. Oyakawa is considered to be the last of the great "straight-arm-pull" backstrokers.
He was inducted in the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1973.
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- Yoshi Oyakawa
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August 9th, 1933 in Kailua-Kona (Age 91) as Yoshinobu Oyakawa
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2023/10/05
New Response (Success): signed 1/1 in ballpoint
2020/06/03
New Response (Success): I sent him a First Day Cover to sign which he did ..
2020/05/15
New Response (Success): Received all back signed
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