On January 10, 2022, Liu Guoliang, president of the Chinese Table Tennis Association, chairman of the Council of the World Table Tennis Federation and executive vice chairman of the International Table Tennis Federation, ushered in his 46th birthday, and fans around the world sent him blessings, and the italistic federation officially congratulated him, accompanied by the words "genius teenager" and "table tennis leader".
In the past 2021, Liu Guoliang has grasped the national table tennis results with one hand and the promotion of table tennis with the other hand, guided the Chinese team to win 8 gold medals in the Olympic Games or the World Table Tennis Championships, and promoted the cooperation between Chinese and foreign multinational table tennis teams, so that the small ball can continue to promote the big ball in the new era, and he also wishes him to create brilliant achievements in 2022!
Born on January 10, 1976, Liu Guoliang is the first men's Grand Slam winner in the history of national table tennis, and the last glory of the traditional straight-forward fast attack so far.
As early as 1992, Liu Guoliang turned out to be the world, defeated the world's first table tennis Grand Slam winner Waldner, and by 1995 began to officially rank among the world's top masters, from 1996 to 1999, he gathered the olympic games, the World Table Tennis Championships, the World Cup three major singles gold medals, and also achieved the great cause of grand slam.
After retiring in 2003, Liu Guoliang quickly took over the position of head coach of the men's team left by his mentor Yin Xiao, and although he encountered some setbacks at the Athens Olympic Games, he soon led the team to win consecutive world championships, became a veritable gold medal coach, and later became the head coach of the whole team.
After briefly leaving the front line in 2017, Liu Guoliang officially returned in 2018 and became the president of the Chinese Table Tennis Association, and later was elected as the leader of the World Table Tennis Federation and the International Table Tennis Federation, making important contributions to the development of the Chinese table tennis team and the world table tennis world, and winning the respect of fans around the world.
Now that 2022 has arrived, Liu Guoliang is about to usher in new challenges: on the one hand, he must consider how to win the two important competitions of the Chengdu World Table Tennis Championships and the Hangzhou Asian Games after the completion of the replacement of the old and new teams in China; on the other hand, Liu Guoliang still needs to explore the new laws of the development of table tennis in the new era and promote the process of commercialization and marketization.
Finally, I wish Liu Guoliang a happy birthday again! New Year and new atmosphere, we also look forward to his more great deeds, leading the Chinese and foreign table tennis to a more brilliant new era: come on!