On the afternoon of the 18th, during the 75th Pixelscope National Men's and Women's Comprehensive Competition in South Korea, the Korean Table Tennis Association held a council meeting in Jeongcheon,Jongcheong-do (Grand Convention Center), and Joo Se-hyuk and Oh Kwang-hyun officially served as the head coaches of the men's and women's teams of the Korean national team.
Initially, the Korean Table Tennis Association announced that after the Tokyo Olympics, the system of coaching the men's and women's teams by Wu Sang-yu and Zhu Kyung-sung would be maintained until this year's Hangzhou Asian Games. However, after the national team development plan was changed, the coaching policy was also comprehensively revised, and at the South Korean national team selection match from January 4 to 13, the new national team was successfully formed, and the Korean Table Tennis Association decided to recruit a new head coach for the new national team, and from the beginning of this month, the open recruitment was implemented, and The result was that Zhu Shihe and Wu Guangxian were successfully elected.
As early as the 2003 World Table Tennis Championships in Paris, he was like a "celestial visitor", cutting down all the princes to reach the singles final, and finally won a silver medal, which is also the best record achieved by the chipper in recent years. At the 2012 London Olympic Games, Joo Se-hyuk, Yoo Seung-min and Oh Sang-woo won the silver medal in the men's team, breaking the history of the Korean men's table tennis team competition. After the London Olympics, Ju Se-hyuk once faded out, but in the case of South Korean table tennis "green and yellow", he made a comeback in 2015 and participated in the Olympic Games for the third time in 2016, and finally took jung Young-sik and Lee Sang-so two young players to the final four of the men's team.
Wu Guangxian, 51, went to Japan before 1995, and from 2009 to 2016, Wu Guangxian served as the coach of the Japanese women's national team and the coach of the youth team, laying the foundation for the revival of Japanese table tennis. The Japanese team won the silver medal of the women's team at the 2016 World Table Tennis Championships in Kuala Lumpur, the bronze medal of the women's team at the Rio Olympic Games, and the gold medal of the women's team at the World Youth Championships, and Wu Guangxian made outstanding contributions. At present, the Japanese team of Ito Mimakoto and Hayata Kina have all practiced with Wu Guangxian.
This year, Zhu Shihe and Wu Guangxian will lead the new team to compete in the Chengdu World Table Tennis Championships Team Championships and the Hangzhou Asian Games, to which the two new coaches unanimously said: "With a heavy sense of responsibility, we will do our best to complete the task." ”