is a retired Japanese
table tennis
Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...
player and coach who won four world titles between 1961 and 1967. He is left-handed.
Table tennis career
He won nine World Championship medals included four
gold medal
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Since the eighteenth century, gold medals have bee ...
s; one in the doubles with
Nobuya Hoshino; two in the mixed doubles with
Kazuko Ito-Yamaizumi and
Masako Seki
was an international table tennis player from Japan.
Table tennis career
From 1961 to 1965 she won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the World Table Tennis Championships and in the Asian Table Tennis Championships.
Her ei ...
respectively and one in the team event for Japan.
Retirement
After retiring from competitions Kimura worked as a sports functionary. He is a senior member of the Japanese Olympic Committee and vice president of the Japanese Table Tennis Association.
In 2014 he was elected to the Advisory Council of the
International Table Tennis Federation
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Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the p ...
.
President Advisory Council (PAC)
International Table Tennis Federation
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Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the p ...
References
Japanese male table tennis players
Japanese table tennis coaches
1940 births
Living people
Asian Games medalists in table tennis
Table tennis players at the 1962 Asian Games
Table tennis players at the 1966 Asian Games
Asian Games gold medalists for Japan
Asian Games silver medalists for Japan
Asian Games bronze medalists for Japan
Medalists at the 1962 Asian Games
Medalists at the 1966 Asian Games
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