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Full name | Shinya Taniguchi | ||||||||||||||
Nationality | Japan | ||||||||||||||
Born | (1979-02-06)6 February 1979 Mie, Japan | ||||||||||||||
Died | 4 October 2013(2013-10-04) (aged 34) Mie, Japan | ||||||||||||||
Height | 181 cm (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||
Weight | 71 kg (157 lb) | ||||||||||||||
Sport | |||||||||||||||
Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||
Strokes | butterfly | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Shinya Taniguchi (谷口 晋矢, Taniguchi Shin'ya, 23 March 1981 – 4 September 2013) was a Japanese swimmer who competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics.[1]
He died on 4 September 2013 from stomach cancer.[2]