Results
| 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 |
Wikipedia - Jun Mizutani
Jun Mizutani (水谷 隼, Mizutani Jun, born 9 June 1989) is a retired Japanese table tennis player and Olympic champion. He became the youngest Japanese national champion at the age of 17. He has the distinction of being the first male singles titlist to achieve five consecutive national championships: 2007 to 2011.
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. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, Mizutani and Mima Ito won gold in the inaugural mixed doubles event.
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.