28 posts tagged “Olympic Champion”
Table tennis had a World Championships in 1926 but did not enter the Olympics until 1988 — a gap of 62 years. This is the road to Olympic inclusion, the spread of China's 37 golds, and the four rewrites of the event programme, including the move to six golds at Los Angeles 2028.
Women's singles champion at Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024, the third player after Deng Yaping and Zhang Yining to defend Olympic women's singles gold.
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.
Women's singles champion at the Rio 2016 Olympics and the 2011 World Championships, completing a Grand Slam, and best known for her squat chop serve.
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.
Women's singles champion at the 2007 Zagreb World Championships and a member of the women's team champions at the 2008 and 2012 Olympics, famous from a young age.
Women's singles champion at the 1993 World Championships, completing a World Championships grand slam in singles, doubles, mixed doubles and team; women's doubles champion at the 1988 Olympics.
2020 Tokyo Olympic mixed doubles champion, winner of the first Olympic gold medal in the history of Japanese table tennis.
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.
2000 Sydney Olympic women's doubles champion who, together with Wang Nan, formed the most stable Chinese women's doubles pairing of the late 1990s.
2012 London Olympic women's singles champion and 2013 Paris World Championships women's singles champion, a career Grand Slam winner.
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.
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