Kōji Kimura

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Kōji Kimura at the 1961 World Cup

Kōji Kimura ( Japanese 木村 興 治 , Kimura Kōji ; * December 1940 ) is a Japanese table tennis player and official. He became world champion four times in the 1960s.

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Kōji Kimura is left-handed. He was national Japanese champion several times, around 1962 and 1965. In 1962 he was number one in the Japanese rankings.

From 1961 to 1967 he took part in four world championships and won a gold medal each time: 1961 in doubles with Nobuya Hoshino , 1963 in mixed with Kazuko Itō , 1965 in mixed with Masako Seki and 1967 with the Japanese team. In 1967 he also reached the final in mixed with Naoko Fukazu .

In 1964 he was Asian champion in singles, doubles (with Ken Konaka ) and in team competition. In mixed with Masako Seki , he failed only in the final. In the ITTF world rankings , he finished fourth in 1964.

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After the end of his active career, Kōji Kimura worked as a national coach in Japan, later he took over official duties. He is a board member of the Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC) and Vice President of the Japanese Table Tennis Association (JTTA). In 2005 he became executive vice-president of the world association ITTF .

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
JPN  Asian Championship TTFA  1964  Seoul  COR   gold  gold  silver  1
JPN  Asian Games  1966  Bangkok  THA   Semifinals  silver  gold  1
JPN  Asian Games  1962  Jakarta  INA   3 silver  silver  1
JPN  World Championship  1967  Stockholm  SWE   Semifinals  last 64  silver  1
JPN  World Championship  1965  Ljubljana  YUG   last 16  Quarter finals  gold  2
JPN  World Championship  1963  Prague  TCH   last 16  last 32  gold  2
JPN  World Championship  1961  Beijing  CHN   last 64  gold  no participants  2

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Executives of the JOC (accessed August 15, 2011; PDF; 1.6 MB)
  2. ↑ DTS magazine , 1995/3 page 35
  3. ↑ DTS magazine , 1962/9 page 9 + 1965/7 page 1
  4. ↑ Magazine DTS , 1962/9 Page 9
  5. ↑ Historical world rankings (accessed on August 15, 2011; PDF; 148 kB)
  6. ↑ Table tennis show, Austrian magazine, 1977/1 page 25
  7. ↑ DTTB donates national jersey for the dsj's visit to Japan ( memento of the original from December 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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 August 15, 2011) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tischtennis.de
  8. ↑ ITTF Executive Committee (EC) (accessed August 15, 2011)
  9. ↑ Kōji Kimura results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed September 10, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Kimura, Kōji
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 木村 興 治 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese table tennis player and official
DATE OF BIRTH December 1940