Cao Yanhua: Two-Time World Championships Women's Singles Champion · Winning the Final with Lobs
Women's singles champion at the 1983 and 1985 World Championships, and a central figure in Chinese women's table tennis in the 1980s.
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Women's singles champion at the 1983 and 1985 World Championships, and a central figure in Chinese women's table tennis in the 1980s.
Bronze medalist in men's singles at the Paris 2024 Olympics, the first French winner of a WTT Grand Smash men's singles title in 2026, who rose to world No. 2.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?"
2009 World Championships men's singles champion and three-time World Cup men's singles winner, with Olympic men's singles silver three times running (2004/2008/2012) — the player who perfected the penhold reverse backhand.
2013 World Cup men's singles champion, a left-handed penholder known for mid- and long-distance rallies and impossible retrievals, and a two-time Olympic men's team champion.
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