Japan won the men's doubles gold medal at the World Table Tennis Championships again after 64 years, and fans on SNS directly fried the pot

In the men's doubles final of the 2025 World Table Tennis Championships in Doha on the 25th local time, the world's No. 5 Japanese pair Hayasuke Togami (23 years old • Imuraya Group) / Shinozuka Daito (21 years old • Aichi Institute of Technology) defeated the 11th-ranked Chinese Taipei "martial arts master combination" Lin Yunru / Gao Chengrui 3-2 and won the championship. This is also the first time in 64 years that Japanese table tennis has won the men's doubles gold medal at the World Table Tennis Championships since the combination of Hoshino Shinya/Koji Kimura in 1961.

In men's doubles, Hayasuke Togami/Daito Shinozuka won the gold medal for the first time in 64 years

In the fourth game, which was 1-2 behind, Hayasuke Togami and Shinozuka Daito were on full fire, directly chasing the game to a 2-2 draw, bringing the game back to the same running line and entering the fifth game that decided the outcome of the game. In the last game, Hayasuke Togami/Daito Shinozuka took the initiative, and with Lin Yunru's forehand pick out of bounds, the Japanese table tennis men's doubles reached the top of the world again after 64 years. Hayasuke Togami and Daito Shinozuka hugged each other very happily after the game, and all three, including coach Masataka Morizono, burst into tears.

World No. 5 Japanese pair Hayasuke Togami/Daito Shinozuka

Hayasuke Togami expressed his gratitude for the support around him, "I'm really happy to be the number one player in the world again after 64 years. I was here because of everyone's support. It's great to be able to reciprocate." Shinozuka Daiden glared and said, "Before coming, the two of them announced that they were going to win the gold medal, but they could really get it. It's unbelievable. ”

Hayasuke Togami and Daito Shinozuka, and coach Masataka Morizono

Regarding the feat accomplished by this pair of Japanese table tennis up-and-coming pairs, SNS wrote comments such as "It's amazing, my head is short-circuited, this is really a great cause", "Hayasuke Togami, Shinozuka Daitogumi are too powerful", "It's not Mizutani (Hayabusa) or Zhang Moto (Tomokazu), I didn't expect Togami and Shinozuka to win the gold medal at the World Table Tennis Championships, and I didn't expect to end the shame of the Paris Olympics without a medal".