A coil winding machine for winding a wire at a plurality of slots of a core of a coil rotor by feeding it out from a nozzle provided at a front end of a flyer, which coil winding machine is provided with a former, a fixed guide, and a movable guide for guiding the wire to the slots for winding and a clamper provided inside the fixed guide and clamping one shaft end of the rotor, the movable guide engaging with the other shaft end of the rotor and able to move in the axial direction of the core.