Hayabusa Mizutani
The mizutani Falcon's decommissioning ceremony will be held today.
On February 19, the Japanese Table Tennis T League announced that it would hold a retirement ceremony for its club player Mizutani Hayabusa on February 27.
It is understood that today is the final battle of the regular season stage of the T-League, with Kinoshita Tokyo Club playing against Ryukyu Club. Mizutani Hayabusa's retirement ceremony will take place before the start of this match, which is expected to start at 9:00 and last about 40 minutes.
The final match of the T-League regular season, Kinoshita Tokyo Club against Ryukyu Club, will officially start at 11:00.
Most fans know Mizutani Hayabusa, and the biggest achievement of his career was to help Japan win the mixed doubles gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics, the first mixed doubles gold medal in the history of table tennis.
Knocked out germany in a backward situation, followed by a semi-final defeat to the Chinese Taipei duo, and the final defeated the Chinese team's Xu Xin Liu Shiwen combination. Along the way, I encountered many pairs of strong combinations, making Mizutani Hayabusa Ito's gold medal appear to be very gold-rich.
Born in 1989 in Iwata, Japan, Mizutani Hayabusa is a key player in the Japan Table Tennis Association's "Sleeping And Tasting Guts" program. He excelled from an early age and then went to Play in Europe. Therefore, many friends can see that in fact, the technical and tactical style of Mizutani Hayabusa in the early days is still more European style, but his strength is insufficient, and after retreating to the Middle Andion Stage, he is more passive and less active.
Later, Mizutani Hayabusa realized that his style of play was too passive, because he was attacked by others, and then picked up the opponent's mistakes to score. He made up his mind to carry out technical and tactical reforms, and there was the Mizutani Falcon that we later saw at the critical moment.
Hayabusa Mizutani has been at the Olympics since 2008 and has competed in four consecutive editions, with his best singles result coming in Rio in 2016, when he beat Samsonov in the bronze medal battle to finish third.
In mixed doubles, Mizutani Hayabusa's best record came at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, where he joined forces with junior Ito Mishimasa to defeat the German team, the Chinese Taipei team and the national table tennis combination all the way to win the mixed doubles championship, which is the best result since the establishment of the Japanese table tennis team.
On August 7, 2021, Mizutani Hayabusa announced his retirement for the first time, and then entered the entertainment industry. On August 30th, he was reported that he would continue to play and continue his table tennis career. On October 25, Mizutani Hayabusa announced its retirement again.
The retirement ceremony of Hayabusa Mizutani will be held this morning, and there will be one less veteran in the table tennis arena, wishing him a smooth future career!