The Chinese National Table Tennis Team, abbreviated as "National Table Tennis" in China, is a sports team that represents the People's Republic of China in international team competitions in table tennis. The Chinese national table tennis team, the most successful table tennis team in history, is considered to be the "dream team" in the field of table tennis, and its number of championships ranks highest among all sports national teams in China. The first male and female world championships in the history of the People's Republic of China were won by the table tennis team (the men's singles championship won by Rong Guotuan at the 25th World Table Tennis Championships, and the women's singles championship won by Qiu Zhonghui at the 26th World Table Tennis Championships).
At the XXIV Seoul Olympic Games in 1988, table tennis competitions officially appeared on the Olympic stage for the first time. As of the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games, the Chinese national table tennis team has won 32 of the 37 gold medals in the history of the Olympic Games, worthy of the title of king!
Olympic table tennis medal table
In the Olympic table tennis competition, south Koreans won three gold medals, namely the 1988 Seoul Olympics men's singles Liu Nam-kyu, the women's doubles Hyun Jing and/Liang Yingzi, the 2004 men's singles Yoo Seung-min, Sweden won by Waldner in the 1992 men's singles final against France's Gaiting, and Japan's victory over the Chinese combinations Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen in the mixed doubles competition at the Tokyo Olympics.
Liu Nam-kyu (born June 4, 1968) is a former South Korean table tennis player who has participated in three Olympic Games as an athlete and won 1 gold and 3 bronze medals, and is currently the South Korean table tennis player who has won the most Olympic medals.
Liu Nankui is a Japanese straight-shot one-sided pull-and-pull style, his pace is extremely fast, so the forehand is fast and the connection is compact, making the opponent overwhelmed. He joined the South Korean national team in 1984. In 1986, Liu Nankui won the men's singles and men's team championships at the Asian Games in Seoul, and the men's singles final was defeated by Jiang Jialiang in a 10:18 decider, and thus became famous. At the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games, Liu Nankui and teammate Kim Ki-taek reached the final, and finally defeated his teammates to win the championship, becoming the first table tennis men's singles champion in Olympic history. At the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, Liu Nam-kyu partnered with Kim Taek-so to win the bronze medal in the men's doubles. At the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, Liu Nankui partnered with Li Zhecheng and won a bronze medal in the men's doubles. In 2000, Liu Nankui retired.
Liu Nankui
Leung Young-ko (born July 6, 1964) is a Retired South Korean women's table tennis player. At the 1988 Seoul Olympics, she competed in women's table tennis, winning the gold medal in the women's table tennis doubles with Xuan Jinghe and her partner Chen Jing and Jiao Zhimin.
Hyun Jung-ho (born October 6, 1969) is a South Korean female table tennis player. At the 1988 Seoul Olympics, she competed in women's table tennis, winning the gold medal in the women's table tennis doubles with Xuan Jinghe and her partner Chen Jing and Jiao Zhimin. At the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, she competed in women's table tennis and won bronze medals in singles and doubles in women's table tennis.
Xuan Jing and Liang Yingzi
Yoo Seung-min (born 5 August 1982) is a South Korean male table tennis player who was elected president of the Korea Table Tennis Association in June 2019. In September 2004, it was ranked no. 2 in the world, the highest ranking in the history of Korean table tennis.
Yoo Seung-min is a typical traditional Japanese direct-pat one-sided puller, who is higher than his predecessors Kanazawa Soo and Liu Nam-kuei in terms of serve quality, drop point awareness and batting quality. In June 2001, Liu Chengmin joined the Sichuan team of the Chinese Table Tennis Super League, becoming the first foreign aid in the Chinese table tennis world. Liu Chengmin defeated 1992 Summer Olympic champion Waldner in the semi-finals of the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, and then won the gold medal in the men's singles of table tennis by defeating Wang Hao, a Chinese player who was generally favored before the game, with a fierce attack in the final. In June 2013, Liu Chengmin officially retired. In 2014, Yoo Seung-min became the coach of the South Korean national team at the Incheon Asian Games. In August 2016, he was elected to the International Olympic Committee.
Yoo Seung-min
Jan-Ove Waldner (born 3 October 1965) is a Swedish table tennis player. Because of its varied playing style, it does not stick to any kind of playing style, breaking people's cognition of table tennis attack and defense, so it is nicknamed "the emperor of table tennis" and "guerrilla leader" by fans. He was popular in both Sweden and China, and was affectionately known as Lao Wa by Chinese audiences.
In the early 1990s, the Swedish men's table tennis team with Waldner, Persen, Apellen, Carlsson and others as the core became the hegemon of table tennis, winning three consecutive World Table Tennis Championships team championships (1989, 1991, 1993), creating the "Swedish Dynasty".
In 1992, Waldner defeated France's Guyting in the men's singles final of table tennis at the Barcelona Olympics, becoming the first World Table Tennis Championships, World Cup and Olympic Men's Singles "Grand Slam" winner.
At the 2000 Sydney Olympics, Waldner defeated Liu Guoliang again in the singles semifinals to reach the final, but eventually lost 2:3 to China's Kong Linghui, regrettably passing by the second Olympic singles champion.
At the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, Waldner first defeated the Chinese duo Wang Hao/Kong Linghui with Person in a doubles match, and then reached the semifinals in a singles match, losing to the current champion Liu Chengmin and stopping, and losing to Wang Liqin in the bronze medal battle to win the fourth place.
In 2006, the 41-year-old Waldner announced his retirement from the Swedish national team and has since faded from table tennis.
1992 Barcelona Olympic Games Waldner and Gatin Final
Waldner
Born Ono 21 October 2000, Yoshimachi Ito (born October 21, 2000 in Iwata, Shizuoka Prefecture) is the youngest olympic table tennis medalist, becoming the first women's singles medalist in Japanese history at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and winning gold in the newly established mixed doubles event.
Hayabusa Mizutani (born June 9, 1989) is a Japanese male table tennis player who has retired. Born in Shizuoka Prefecture, he graduated from Aomori Yamada Junior High School and Aomori Yamada High School, and graduated from the Department of Political Economy of Meiji University. The ball sense is delicate, the long table high ball defense ability is excellent, often able to counterattack the opponent when the far table defense. At the 2016 Summer Olympics, he won the bronze medal in men's singles at the table tennis event, bringing the first Olympic table tennis medal in history to the Japanese team. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, he teamed up with Ito to win the mixed doubles gold medal in table tennis, the first Olympic table tennis gold medal in the history of the Japanese team.
On July 27, 2021, Ito and Hayabusa Mizutani teamed up to successfully reverse the Chinese duo of Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen to win the gold medal after falling behind two sets in the Tokyo Olympic Table Tennis Mixed Doubles Final.
Ito Mine Yosuiya Hayabusa