Qatar Open 03/08 13:30 5 Patrick Franziska v Jun Mizutani W 2-4
Qatar Open Women 02/09 12:54 - Jun Mizutani v Allan Bentsen W 3-0
Qatar Open Women 01/24 18:40 1 Michael Maze v Jun Mizutani W 1-3
Qatar Open Women 12/01 12:45 - Jun Mizutani v Niagol Stoyanov W 3-0
Qatar Open Women 11/24 17:24 - Pavel Sirucek v Jun Mizutani W 2-3
German Open WD 11/11 13:40 4 Jun Mizutani v Sang Su Lee L 3-4
German Open WD 11/10 19:20 5 Jun Mizutani v Bastian Steger W 4-3
Qatar Open Women 10/27 14:02 - Jun Mizutani v Beikong W 3-2
Qatar Open Women 10/27 11:46 - Jun Mizutani v Quadri Aruna W 3-1
Qatar Open Women 10/21 18:00 3 Jun Mizutani v Simon Gauzy L 3-4
Qatar Open Women 10/21 11:40 4 Jun Mizutani v Quadri Aruna W 4-0
Qatar Open Women 10/13 18:45 - Niagol Stoyanov v Jun Mizutani W 0-3
Qatar Open Women 09/28 13:54 - Jun Mizutani v Pavel Sirucek W 3-2
Qatar Open XD 07/06 01:30 3 Jun Mizutani v Seungmin Cho L 3-4
Qatar Open XD 07/05 09:10 4 Jun Mizutani v Maharu Yoshimura W 4-2
Qatar Open XD 07/04 05:10 5 Jun Mizutani v Hyundeok Seo W 4-0
Qatar Open XD 06/18 03:15 2 Jun Mizutani v Zhendong Fan L 1-4
Qatar Open XD 06/17 08:05 - Jun Mizutani v Sangsu Lee W 4-3
Qatar Open XD 06/17 06:45 3 Jun Mizutani v Sangsu Lee W 4-3
Qatar Open XD 06/17 01:45 4 Jun Mizutani v Kristian Karlsson W 4-1
Qatar Open XD 06/16 07:20 5 Jun Mizutani v Bastian Steger W 4-1
Qatar Open Women 06/01 12:15 6 Jun Mizutani v Tomokazu Harimoto L 1-4
Qatar Open Women 05/31 12:00 57 Jun Mizutani v Strommen U19 W 4-0
Qatar Open Women 05/12 14:41 - Jun Mizutani v Kristian Karlsson W 3-0
Qatar Open Women 05/12 12:50 - Jun Mizutani v Timo Boll W 3-0
Qatar Open Women 05/07 11:40 1 Stefan Fegerl v Jun Mizutani W 0-3
Qatar Open Women 03/10 20:17 - Tiago Apolonia v Jun Mizutani W 0-3
Qatar Open Women 03/10 18:40 - Bojan Tokic v Jun Mizutani W 2-3
Qatar Open Women 02/10 14:43 - Jun Mizutani v Hui Xu W 3-0
Qatar Open Women 02/10 12:22 - Jun Mizutani v Daniel Kosiba W 3-1

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.