Nikkan Sports Report: "Table tennis player Zhang Benzhi and next spring (2022) enter the Faculty of Human Sciences of Waseda University, not as a school table tennis department but as a professional player activity."
According to Japanese media no. 24 news, Tokyo Olympic table tennis men's team bronze medalist Zhang Benzhihe (18 years old Kinoshita) will enter the Waseda University Human Sciences Department (communication education course) next spring to continue his studies.
In elementary school, Zhang Benzhihe ranked first and second in the class, with excellent results.
He is currently enrolled in Nichidai High School (Yokohama City) and received a university acceptance notice on the 20th. As an early school student, his goal is the Paris Olympics in 3 years.
According to relevant sources, Zhang Ben will not join the university's table tennis department even if he goes to school, but will be active as a professional table tennis player as now. If the COVID-19 epidemic stabilizes, Zhang Ben, ranked No. 5 in the world, will frequently move overseas during the year. Coupled with the domestic T League, from the schedule, it is difficult to join the university table tennis department.
Zhang Ben was born in Sendai, and has been studying English conversation and private school since he was a child, striving to complete both culture and martial arts. Especially until the 6th grade of primary school, her mother, Ms. Zhang Ling, has always adhered to the education policy of physical health, learning and table tennis, 30 minutes before school and 1 hour and 30 minutes after school, we must study, and then carry out table tennis training.
When living in Sendai, Mr. Chang dreamed of entering the best toku university in the area, but now that he has come to Tokyo with the goal of being the world's first in table tennis, he has chosen to enter waseda University, the strongest private university.
Among the graduates of the department are the feathered knots that have won two consecutive championships in the Olympic men's figure skating event.
Also from Sendai City, Hagoku graduated from Tohoku High School (same city) and won the first Asian men's gold medal at the Sochi Winter Olympics while attending Waseda University. Zhang Ben is also looking forward to winning the first singles gold medal in the history of Japanese table tennis at the Paris Olympics.
Zhang Ben's discipline is the Department of Human Environmental Sciences. The trump card of The Japanese table tennis world, it has been aiming for the top of the world since waseda University.
Zhang Benzhihe was born in Sendai City on June 27, 2003. His father, Zhang Yu, is a former Sichuan athlete, and his mother, Zhang Ling, is a Chinese representative at the 1995 World Championships. In 1998 in China, he later moved from Sichuan Province to Sendai.
Chang changed his nationality in the spring of 2014 and won the championship for the first time in January 2018 with the youngest all-Japan male and female athletes at the age of 14 on 208. In December of the same year, he also won the youngest title at the Waldez Aglando Stadium. He is 175 cm tall and has a blood type O.
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