Japanese table tennis won the men's doubles gold medal at the World Table Tennis Championships again after 64 years, and Hayasuke Togami has a trick to keep his condition good

The 2025 Table Tennis World Championships ushered in the final day of competition at the Lusail Stadium near Doha on the 25th local time, and the combination of Japan's Shinozuka Daito (Aichi Institute of Technology) and Hayasuke Togami (Imuraya Group), ranked 5th in the world in the men's doubles final, achieved the feat.

In the men's doubles, the Togami Shinozuka combination won the gold medal at the World Championships for the first time in 64 years

Shinozuka Daito/Hayasuke Togami will face 11th-placed Chinese Taipei's "Martial Arts Masters" Lin Yunru/Gao Chengrui, who defeated China's Lin Shidong/Lin Gaoyuan in the process of qualifying, and the French Lebrun brothers. The first four games of the final were tied at 2:2, and the deciding game was played at the pace of Shinozuka Daito/Hayasuke Togami, who won 11-6 and won the men's doubles title 3-2. This is also the first time in 64 years that Japan has won the men's doubles gold medal at the World Table Tennis Championships since the combination of Shinya Hoshino and Koji Kimura in 1961.

Japanese media said after the match that at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, the men's and women's doubles events will be resurrected and become a competition event again. Hayasuke Togami, who has always believed that "doubles is also important", participated in the German Table Tennis Bundestagio until late April. In his "very good form" response, he wrote a new page in the history of Japanese table tennis at the World Table Tennis Championships in Doha.

After the match, Hayasuke Togami said happily, "I'm really happy to win the World Championship again after 64 years. With everyone's support, we have come here. Shinozuka also smiled and said, "Although it was announced that the two of them won the gold medal together, it was really hard to believe. ”