Ichiro Ogimura (荻村 伊智朗, Ogimura Ichirō, June 25, 1932 – December 4, 1994) 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 being instrumental in Korea playing as a unified team at the 1991 World Table Tennis Championships.
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25 June 1932 Itō, Shizuoka, Japan
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Died |
5 December 1994 (aged 62) Tokyo, Japan
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Zodiac | Cancer |
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