Koji Kimura
Personal information
Full name	KIMURA Koji
Nationality	Japan
Born	(1940-12-11) 11 December 1940 (age 83)[1]
Medal record Table tennis Representing  Japan World Championships 1967 Stockholm Singles 1967 Stockholm Mixed Doubles 1967 Stockholm Team 1965 Ljubljana Mixed doubles 1965 Ljubljana Team 1963 Prague Mixed doubles 1963 Prague Team 1961 Beijing Doubles 1961 Beijing Team Asian Championships 1964 Seoul Singles 1964 Seoul Doubles 1964 Seoul Mixed doubles 1964 Seoul Team

Koji Kimura (木村 興治, Kimura Kōji, born 11 December 1940) is a retired Japanese table tennis player and coach who won four world titles between 1961 and 1967.^[2] He is left-handed.^[3][4]

Table tennis career

He won nine World Championship medals^[5] included four gold medals; one in the doubles with Nobuya Hoshino; two in the mixed doubles with Kazuko Ito-Yamaizumi and Masako Seki respectively and one in the team event for Japan.^[6][7]

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. ^[8] In 2014 he was elected to the Advisory Council of the International Table Tennis Federation.^[9]

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