35 posts tagged “World Champion”
Mixed doubles champion at the 2017 World Championships, a three-time Olympic women's team medalist, and the central figure in Japanese women's table tennis for nearly a decade.
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.
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.
Won the Women's World Cup singles title five times, more than any other player, and took the 2019 Budapest World Championships women's singles crown.
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.
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.
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?"
Men's singles World Cup champion in 2002 and 2005 and a former world No. 1, he was the flag-bearer of European table tennis for nearly two decades.
Men's singles World Cup champion in 1999, 2001 and 2009 — the best World Cup record ever by a European player.
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.
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