Olympics 2020 - Team Men 08/06 03:30 20 Woojin Jang v Jun Mizutani W 0-3
Olympics 2020 - Team Men 08/04 11:30 2 Jun Mizutani v Timo Boll L 1-3
Olympics 2020 - Team Men 08/03 01:30 3 Jun Mizutani v Mattias Falck L 1-3
Olympics 2020 - Team Men 08/02 02:00 3 Jun Mizutani v Xin Yan W 3-0
WTT Star Contender Doha 03/10 07:55 1 Ruwen Filus v Jun Mizutani L 3-0
WTT Star Contender Doha 03/09 13:15 1 Dang Qiu v Jun Mizutani W 0-3
Japan T League 02/09 08:20 - Jun Mizutani v Satoshi Aida L 1-3
Japan T League 01/30 04:30 - Yuto Muramatsu v Jun Mizutani W 1-3
Japan T League 12/23 11:35 - Jun Mizutani v Koki Niwa W 3-2
Japan T League 12/22 11:00 - Yukiya Uda v Jun Mizutani W 2-3
Japan T League 12/17 04:30 - Jun Mizutani v Kazuhiro Yoshimura W 3-1
Japan T League 12/15 08:00 - Jun Mizutani v Koki Niwa L 1-3
Japan T League 12/11 05:30 - Panagiotis Gionis v Jun Mizutani L 3-2
Japan T League 12/05 03:30 - Jun Mizutani v Taimu Arinobu W 3-1
Qatar Open 03/06 16:50 4 Jingkun Liang v Jun Mizutani L 4-3
Qatar Open 03/05 15:10 5 Robert Gardos v Jun Mizutani W 1-4
Hungarian Open 02/20 17:40 5 Jun Mizutani v Pavel Sirucek - Walkover
Japan T League 02/09 04:00 - Jun Mizutani v Takuya Jin L 2-3
Japan T League 02/08 03:30 - Jun Mizutani v Taimu Arinobu L 1-3
German Open 02/01 17:10 3 Jun Mizutani v Gaoyuan Lin L 3-4
German Open 01/31 20:10 4 Yun-Ju Lin v Jun Mizutani W 3-4
German Open 01/30 15:40 5 Darko Jorgic v Jun Mizutani W 0-4
Japan T League 01/26 04:00 - Jun Mizutani v Yuto Kizukuri L 0-3
Japan T League 01/25 10:20 - Jun Mizutani v Kazuhiro Yoshimura L 2-3
World Tour Grand Finals 12/13 03:40 4 Hugo Calderano v Jun Mizutani L 4-1
T2 Diamond 11/23 11:00 - Jun Mizutani v Gaoyuan Lin L 1-4
T2 Diamond 11/22 13:15 - Dimitrij Ovtcharov v Jun Mizutani W 3-4
Austrian Open 11/14 14:00 5 Liam Pitchford v Jun Mizutani L 4-3
German Open 10/11 18:20 4 Timo Boll v Jun Mizutani L 4-3
German Open 10/10 15:30 5 Dingshuo Liu v Jun Mizutani W 2-4

Wikipedia - Jun Mizutani

Jun Mizutani (水谷 隼, Mizutani Jun, born 9 June 1989) is a retired Japanese table tennis player. He became the youngest Japanese national champion at the age of 17. His consecutive singles titles at the national championships from 2007 to 2011 made him the first man to win the event five times in a row.

Throughout his career, Mizutani competed in 4 Olympic games from 2008 to 2020. After defeating Vladimir Samsonov for the bronze medal by 4–1 in the 2016 Summer Olympics, he finally seized his first singles medal in the three main international tournaments. It was also the first Olympic table tennis singles medal of his country.

History

2016

At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Mizutani earned a bronze medal in the singles event which was his first singles medal at the Olympics, after defeating Vladimir Samsonov in the bronze medal match. Later, he received a silver medal in the team event with his teammates Koki Niwa and Maharu Yoshimura losing to the Chinese team.

2021

In March, Jun Mizutani played in the WTT Star Contender event at WTT Doha, but he suffered a round-of-16 upset to Ruwen Filus.

At the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Mizutani and Mima Ito defeated Liu Shiwen and Xu Xin in the mixed doubles finals to become the first non-Chinese to win gold at an Olympic table tennis event since 2004. Additionally, Mizutani earned a bronze medal in the team event alongside Koki Niwa and Tomokazu Harimoto beating the South Korean team.

Mizutani retired after the 2020 Summer Olympics which was confirmed by World Table Tennis on 10 February 2022. His increasing sight difficulties had forced him to wear special glasses during matches and he cited that it contributed to him retiring.