Ichirō Ogimura
Ichirō Ogimura ( Japanese荻 村 伊 智 朗, Ogimura Ichirō ; born June 25, 1932 in Itō ; † December 5, 1994 in Tokyo ) was a Japanese table tennis player and president of the ITTF . In the 1950s he was world table tennis champion several times.
Other sources give December 4, 1994 as the date of death.
Table tennis player
Ichirō Ogimura only started playing table tennis when he was 16 years old. In 1953 he became Japanese champion. Between 1954 and 1965 he took part in all eight world championships . He was world champion 12 times, twice each in singles and doubles, three times in mixed and five times with the Japanese team:
- 1954 World Cup in London: title in singles and with the team, semi-finals in doubles (with Yoshio Tomita )
- 1955 World Cup in Utrecht: title with the team, semi-finals in doubles (with Yoshio Tomita )
- 1956 World Cup in Tokyo: title in singles, doubles (with Yoshio Tomita ) and with the team
- 1957 World Cup in Stockholm: title in mixed (with Fujie Eguchi ) and with the team, vice world champion in singles and doubles (with Toshiaki Tanaka )
- 1959 World Cup in Dortmund: title in doubles (with Teruo Murakami ), mixed (with Fujie Eguchi) and with the team, semi-finals in singles
- 1961 World Cup in Beijing: Mixed title (with Kimiyo Matsuzaki ), World Cup runner-up with the team
- 1963 World Cup in Prague: Vice World Cup with the team
- World Cup 1965 in Ljubljana: Vice World Cup with the team
In the late 1950s he became the national coach of Sweden.
official
After the end of his active career, Ichirō Ogimura built an import / export company. He became Vice President of the Japanese Table Tennis Association.
At the ITTF Congress during the 1987 World Cup in New Delhi, he was elected ITTF President after serving as Vice President for eight years. He replaced Roy Evans and was the third ITTF president. He held this office until his death in 1994.
In 1997 he was inducted into the ITTF Hall of Fame .
Private
Ichirō Ogimura's mother ran a table tennis school in Japan. Ogimura worked in the textile industry. He had been married since 1959 and had three children. He died of lung cancer in a Tokyo hospital.
Results from the ITTF database
Association | event | year | place | country | singles | Double | Mixed | team |
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JPN | Asian Championship TTFA | 1960 | Bombay | IND | gold | gold | gold | 1 |
JPN | Asian Championship TTFA | 1953 | Tokyo | JPN | last 16 | 1 | ||
JPN | Asian Games | 1962 | Jakarta | INA | silver | silver | gold | 1 |
JPN | Asian Games | 1958 | Tokyo | JPN | Semifinals | gold | 2 | |
JPN | World Championship | 1965 | Ljubljana | YUG | last 32 | Quarter finals | last 64 | 2 |
JPN | World Championship | 1963 | Prague | TCH | Quarter finals | last 32 | last 16 | 2 |
JPN | World Championship | 1961 | Beijing | CHN | Quarter finals | Quarter finals | gold | 2 |
JPN | World Championship | 1959 | Dortmund | FRG | Semifinals | gold | gold | 1 |
JPN | World Championship | 1957 | Stockholm | SWE | silver | silver | gold | 1 |
JPN | World Championship | 1956 | Tokyo | JPN | gold | gold | Quarter finals | 1 |
JPN | World Championship | 1955 | Utrecht | NED | last 16 | Semifinals | Quarter finals | 1 |
JPN | World Championship | 1954 | Wembley | CLOSELY | gold | Semifinals | last 16 | 1 |
philately
The post office in Cluj-Napoca Romania used a special postmark on February 4, 1995 with the picture of Ichirō Ogimura and the text "TABLE TENNIS FAMOUS CHAMPION 1932-1994".
swell
- Popularize table tennis , DTS magazine , 1988/1 pp. 28–29
- Zdenko Uzorinac : His heart beat for sport , DTS magazine , 1995/4 p. 18
Individual evidence
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1994/12 p. 46
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1960/14 West issue p. 1
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1997/9 p. 15
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1967/23 p. 49
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1959/6 West issue p. 2
- ↑ ITTF statistics ( memento of the original from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on September 13, 2011)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Ogimura, Ichirō |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese table tennis player |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 25, 1932 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Itō |
DATE OF DEATH | 5th December 1994 |
Place of death | Tokyo |