Ichiro 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 repeatedly table tennis world champion.
Other sources give the date of death on December 4, 1994.
Table tennis players
Ichirō Ogimura did not begin until the age of 16 with the table tennis games. In 1953 he was Japanese champion. Between 1954 and 1965 he participated in all eight world championships. He was 12 times world champion, twice each in the singles and men's doubles, three times in the Mixed and five times with the Japanese team:
- 1954 World Cup in London: singles titles and with the team in the semi-final doubles (with Yoshio Tomita )
- World Cup 1955 in Utrecht: Title with the team semifinals in doubles (with Yoshio Tomita )
- World Cup 1956 in Tokyo: titles in singles, doubles (with Yoshio Tomita ) and with the team
- World Cup 1957 in Stockholm: title in mixed doubles ( with Fujie Eguchi ) and with the team, Vice World Champion in singles and doubles ( with Toshiaki Tanaka )
- World Cup 1959 in Dortmund: title in doubles (with Teruo Murakami ), Mixed ( with Fujie Eguchi ) and with the team semifinals in individual
- World Cup 1961 in Beijing: title in mixed doubles ( with Kimiyo Matsuzaki ), the World Championship with the team
- World Cup 1963 in Prague: the World Championship with the team
- World Cup 1965 in Ljubljana: Vice World Championships with the team
End of the 1950s he was coach of Sweden.
Functionary
After the end of his active career Ichirō Ogimura built a Import-/Export-Firma. He became vice president of the Japanese Table Tennis Association.
At the ITTF Congress during the World Cup 1987 in New Delhi, he was elected ITTF President after he was already eight years Vice President. He replaced Roy Evans and was the third ITTF President. He held until his death in 1994 this office.
In 1997, he was inducted into the ITTF Hall of Fame.
Private
Ichirō Ogimuras mother ran a table tennis school in Japan. Ogimura worked in the textile industry. He was married in 1959 and had three children. He died in a hospital in Tokyo from lung cancer.
Results from the ITTF database
Philately
The post office in Cluj -Napoca Romania used on 4 February 1995, special with the image of Ichirō Ogimura and the text " TABLE TENNIS FAMOUS CHAMPION 1932-1994 ".
Swell
- Table Tennis popularize magazine DTS, 1988/1 pp. 28-29
- Zdenko Uzorinac: His heart beat for the sports magazine DTS 1995/ 4 pg 18