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Richard Tsugio Tanabe Jr. (born December 14 1932) is an American former competition swimmer who represented the United States at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne Australia. He swam for the silver medal-winning U.S. team in the preliminary heats of the men’s 4×200-meter freestyle relay. Tanabe was not eligible to receive a medal under the 1956 Olympic swimming rules however because he did not swim in the relay final.