Ichiro Ogimura

Ichiro Ogimura
250px Ichiro Ogimura at the 1955 World Championships
Personal information
Nationality	Japan
Born	(1932-06-25)June 25, 1932 Itō, Shizuoka, Japan
Died	Tokyo, Japan
Highest ranking	1 (September 1954)
Medal record Men's table tennis Representing Japan World Championships 1965 Ljubljana Team 1963 Prague Team 1961 Beijing Mixed doubles 1961 Beijing Team 1959 Dortmund Singles 1959 Dortmund Doubles 1959 Dortmund Mixed doubles 1959 Dortmund Team 1957 Stockholm Singles 1957 Stockholm Doubles 1957 Stockholm Mixed doubles 1957 Stockholm Team 1956 Tokyo Singles 1956 Tokyo Doubles 1956 Tokyo Team 1955 Utrecht Doubles 1955 Utrecht Team 1954 Wembley Singles 1954 Wembley Doubles 1954 Wembley Team Asian Games 1962 Jakarta Singles 1962 Jakarta Doubles 1962 Jakarta Mixed doubles 1962 Jakarta Team 1958 Tokyo Singles 1958 Tokyo Mixed doubles 1958 Tokyo Team Asian Championships 1960 Bombay Singles 1960 Bombay Doubles 1960 Bombay Mixed doubles 1960 Bombay Team 1953 Tokyo Team

Ichiro Ogimura (荻村 伊智朗, Ogimura Ichiro, June 25, 1932 – December 4, 1994) was a Japanese table tennis player. Ogimura's father died when he was two and his mother often worked too late to take care of him. As a teenager, Ogimura practiced table tennis at the hall run by Hisae Uehara in Musashino, Tokyo. He won the All-Japan National Championships and represented Japan at the World Championships. 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.

After his retirement, Ogimura coached overseas in Sweden, China and USA. He got involved in Japanese Olympic Committee and Japan Table Tennis Association. 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. He was inducted into the ITTF Hall of Fame in 1997.