is a male former international

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player from Japan.

Table tennis career

From 1955 to 1957 he won eight medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the

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. The eight World Championship medals included four gold medals; one in the doubles at the

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with

Ichiro Ogimura was a Japanese table tennis player, coach, president of the ITTF and former World No. 1 who won 12 World Championship titles during his career. Ogimura was also a key figure in the Ping Pong Diplomacy events of the early 1970s, as well as be ...

and three in the team event.

References

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Table tennis career

See also

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