Ichiro Ogimura (25 June 1932 to 4 December 1994) was a Japanese table tennis player, coach and president of the International Table Tennis Federation, a former world number one who won twelve world championship titles, including the men's singles in 1954 and 1956 and five consecutive team titles. He was born in Itō, Shizuoka, and began playing in April 1948 as a junior high school student. He became an ITTF executive member in 1973 and its president in 1987. He was a key figure in the ping-pong diplomacy of the early 1970s and worked to bring North and South Korea together as a single team at the 1991 World Table Tennis Championships in Chiba. He was inducted into the ITTF Hall of Fame in 1997.
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