Ichiro Ogimura
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Ichiro Ogimura at the 1955 World Championships | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
June 25, 1932 Itō, Shizuoka, Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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December 5, 1994 (aged 62) Tokyo, Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Highest ranking | 1 (September 1954)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ichiro Ogimura (荻村 伊智朗 Ogimura Ichiro, June 25, 1932 – December 4, 1994) was a Japanese table tennis player.[2] Ogimura's father died when he was two and his mother often worked too late to take care of him.[3] As a teenager, Ogimura practiced table tennis at the hall run by Hisae Uehara in Musashino, Tokyo.[4] He won the All-Japan National Championships and represented Japan at the World Championships.[3] He won 12 world titles at the Championships including men's singles in 1954 and 1956, together with 5 consecutive titles in the team competitions.[5]
After his retirement, Ogimura coached overseas in Sweden, China and USA.[6] He got involved in Japanese Olympic Committee and Japan Table Tennis Association.[2] He became an executive member of the International Table Tennis Federation in 1973 and president in 1987. In 1994, Ogimura died of lung cancer; he was survived by his wife, a son and two daughters.[2] He was inducted into the ITTF Hall of Fame in 1997.[7]
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- ↑ André Damman. "History of World Rankings" (PDF). ITTF Museum. Retrieved April 27, 2011.
- 1 2 3 "Ichiro Ogimura, Table Tennis Champion, 62". The New York Times. December 5, 1994. Retrieved April 27, 2011.
- 1 2 Tim Boggan. "Review: 'Ogi: The Life of Ichiro Ogimura'". USA Table Tennis. Retrieved April 27, 2011.
- ↑ Rob Smaal (February 26, 2011). "From table-tennis tyrant to ping-pong diplomat". Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved April 27, 2011.
- ↑ "OGIMURA Ichiro (JPN)". ITTF. Retrieved April 27, 2011.
- ↑ "Olympic Review Volume XXV No 1. February–March 1995" (PDF). LA84 Foundation. Olympic Museum Lausanne. p. 76. Retrieved April 27, 2011.
- ↑ "The ITTF Hall of Fame". ITTF. Retrieved April 27, 2011.