Koji Kimura

Koji Kimura (Japanese木村 兴 治, Koji Kimura, * December 1940 ) is a Japanese table tennis player and functionary. He was four times world champion in the 1960s.

Active

Koji Kimura is left-handed. Several times he was the national Japanese master, about 1962 and 1965. 1962, he was number one in the Japanese rankings.

From 1961 to 1967 he took four times at the World Championships and won each time a gold medal: 1961 in a double with Nobuya Hoshino, 1963 Mixed with Kazuko Ito, 1965 Mixed with Masako Seki and 1967 with the Japanese team. In 1967, he also reached the mixed with Naoko Fukazu the final.

In 1964 he became Asian champion in singles, doubles (with Ken Konaka ) and in the team competition. In mixed with Masako Seki he failed only in the finale. In the ITTF World Ranking in 1964 he finished fourth.

Functionary

After the end of his active career Koji Kimura worked as a 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 ). He was Executive Vice President of the ITTF 2005.

Results from the ITTF database