He also won the national men's doubles title in 1995 with Seiichi Watanabe.

Machida competed in the men's singles event at the 1992 Summer Olympics where he lost the second round to eventual champion Poul-Erik Høyer Larsen.

[2] He then made his second appearance at the Olympics in 1996 where he reached the third round but lost to Park Sung-woo.

In 1997, he won a silver medal in men's singles at the 1997 Asian Games.

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