20 posts tagged “Chinese Men's Team”
A mainstay of the Chinese men's team in the 1980s, he coached it after retiring, led its revival in the mid-to-late 1990s, and later served as head coach of the Chinese national table tennis team.
Men's singles champion at the Paris 2024 Olympics, completing a Grand Slam; a four-time World Cup and two-time World Championships men's singles champion.
Men's singles champion at the 38th and 39th World Championships and the 1984 World Cup, known for a ferocious forehand and diving retrievals.
1995 World Championships men's singles champion and 2000 Sydney Olympic men's singles champion, a Grand Slam winner who was once the youngest men's World No. 1.
Mainstay of the men's team titles at the 26th, 27th and 28th World Championships, a multiple men's singles finalist who later coached the Chinese men's team and served as President of the Asian Table Tennis Union.
Became the youngest men's World No. 1 in history at 19 in 2025, then swept men's singles, men's doubles and mixed doubles titles at the 2026 Nagoya Asian Games.
1996 Atlanta Olympic men's singles champion and 1999 World Championships men's singles champion, China's first male Grand Slam winner, later President of the Chinese Table Tennis Association and Chairman of the WTT Board.
1992 Barcelona Olympic men's doubles champion who, together with Wang Tao, formed China's most stable men's doubles pairing of the early 1990s.
2008 Beijing Olympic men's singles champion and four-time World Cup men's singles champion, the master of penhold play and short-game technique.
The first man to complete a double Grand Slam, three consecutive World Championships men's singles titles, and six Olympic gold medals — the most of any Chinese athlete.
1989 and 1992 World Cup men's singles champion, the core of the Chinese men's team through its hardest stretch in the early 1990s.
Men's singles champion at the 1959 Dortmund World Championships and the first world champion in Chinese sporting history, he gave the country the line "How many chances does life give you to fight?"
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