Ichirō Ogimura

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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:

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
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

  1. ↑ DTS magazine , 1994/12 p. 46
  2. ↑ DTS magazine , 1960/14 West issue p. 1
  3. ↑ DTS magazine , 1997/9 p. 15
  4. ↑ DTS magazine , 1967/23 p. 49
  5. ↑ DTS magazine , 1959/6 West issue p. 2
  6. ↑ 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)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ittf.com
personal data
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