Reizo Koike

Reizo Koike
Personal information
Nationality Japanese
Born August 3, 1915(1915-08-03)
Numazu, Shizuoka, Japan
Died August 3, 1998(1998-08-03) (aged 83)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Event(s) 200-meter Breaststroke
Olympic medal record
Competitor for  Japan
Men's Swimming
Silver 1932 Los Angeles 200 m breaststroke
Bronze 1936 Berlin 200 m breaststroke

Reizo Koike (小池 禮三 Koike Reizō?, December 12, 1915 - August 3, 1998) was a Japanese breaststroke swimmer. He won silver medal for the Men's 200 meter breaststroke in the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles and the bronze medal for the 200 meter breaststroke in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. In between these events, he attended Keio University in Tokyo, where he set a world record for the 200 meter breaststroke.

Koike was born in Numazu, Shizuoka, Japan. After the end of World War II, Koike became a coach for the Japanese national Olympic swimming team and chairman of the Japan Swimming Federation. He was present in Barcelona during the 1992 Summer Olympics, when Kyoko Iwasaki won the gold medal. He died of lung cancer in 1998.

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