{{Short description|Japanese boxer (born 1940)}} {{for|the Japanese tennis player|Kiyoshi Tanabe (tennis)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2016}} {{expand German|topic=bio|date=October 2022|田辺清}} {{Infobox boxer |name=Kiyoshi Tanabe |image=Kiyoshi Tanabe, Abdel Moneim El-Guindi, Gyula Török, Sergei Sivko 1960.jpg | image_size = 260px |caption=Tanabe (extreme left) at the 1960 Olympics |birth_date={{birth date and age|1940|10|10}} |birth_place=Aomori City, Japan |death_date= |death_place= |height=159 cm |weight=Flyweight |style = Orthodox |total = 22 |wins = 21 |KO = 5 |losses = 0 |draws = 1 |show-medals=yes |medaltemplates= {{MedalCountry | {{JPN}} }} {{MedalCompetition|Olympic Games}} {{MedalBronze| 1960 Rome | Flyweight}} {{MedalCompetition|Asian Games}} {{MedalGold| 1962 Jakarta | Bantamweight}} }}

'''Kiyoshi Tanabe''' (田辺 清, born October 10, 1940) is a retired Japanese boxer who won a bronze medal at the 1960 Olympics.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200417211310/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ta/kiyoshi-tanabe-1.html Kiyoshi Tanabe]. sports-reference.com</ref>

==Biography== As an amateur Tanabe won a bronze medal at the 1960 Olympics, becoming the first Japanese boxer to win an Olympic medal. His amateur record was 115-5 (30RSC). He made his professional debut in 1963, and won the Japanese flyweight title in 1965, which he defended twice before vacating. In February 1967, he fought WBA & WBC flyweight champion Horacio Accavallo in a non-title match, and won by 6th-round TKO.<ref>{{Boxrec|id=82013}}</ref>

Tanabe was scheduled to get his first world title shot in July 1967, and expectations heightened around the talented fighter. However, it was discovered that he had suffered a detached retina in his right eye, which forced him into retirement. He had surgery on his right eye, but lost his vision two years later.{{Citation needed|date=December 2010}}

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