Ai Fukuhara: 'Ai-chan' to Chinese Fans
A four-time Olympian, silver medalist in the women's team at the London 2012 Olympics and bronze medalist at the Rio 2016 Olympics.
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A four-time Olympian, silver medalist in the women's team at the London 2012 Olympics and bronze medalist at the Rio 2016 Olympics.
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.
Women's singles champion at the 1983 and 1985 World Championships, and a central figure in Chinese women's table tennis in the 1980s.
Winner of four Olympic gold medals who spent eight consecutive years as world No. 1 in women's singles, one of the most recognizable symbols of Chinese table tennis.
She scored two points in the women's team final of the 33rd World Championships in 1977 to help China reclaim the Corbillon Cup after ten years; women's singles champion at the 35th World Championships in 1979.
Men's singles champion at the 38th and 39th World Championships and the 1984 World Cup, known for a ferocious forehand and diving retrievals.
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.
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.
Won women's doubles gold with Deng Yaping at both the 1992 and 1996 Olympics, the doubles pillar of Chinese women's table tennis in the 1990s.
Women's singles champion at the 26th World Championships in Beijing in 1961, the first female world champion in the history of Chinese table tennis.
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?"
A mainstay of China's men's team at the 26th World Championships and elected ITTF president in 1995, the first Chinese to lead the international federation.
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