On February 2, Beijing time, important news came from the Japan Table Tennis Association that Wei Guan Qingguang, former Olympic champion of national table tennis and winner of the men's singles championship of Japan's four national championships, will become the head coach of Lin Yunru, the world's seventh-ranked Chinese Taipei star. As we all know, Lin Yunru is a rare genius teenager in the table tennis world, who has defeated Fan Zhendong, Ma Long, Lin Gaoyuan and others, and has unlimited potential. Fully qualified to compete with the national table tennis king Chu Qin.
It is worth mentioning that the head coach of Lin Yunru, a talented teenager in Chinese Taipei, was originally from Shandong, China, but the coach has resigned due to physical reasons. Wei Guan Qingguang began to instruct Lin Yunru, and the Japanese Table Tennis Association felt a certain threat to this. The Japan Table Tennis Association said that Lin Yunru is the strongest opponent of Japanese players, and now starting to guide Lin Yunru can improve the level of both sides.
Weiguan Qingguang, formerly known as Wei Qingguang, is a former national table tennis player born in Guangxi, China. In 1986, at the Asian Table Tennis Championships in Seoul, Wei Qingguang won the men's singles championship. In the 1987 World Table Tennis Championships in New Delhi, India, Wei Qingguang and Chen Longcan successfully won the Men's Doubles Championships of the World Table Tennis Championships. At the 1988 Seoul Olympics, Wei Qingguang won the Olympic men's doubles championship again.
As we all know, the Chinese athletes at the Seoul Olympics performed poorly, but Wei Qingguang overcame many unfavorable factors and partnered Chen Longcan to win the championship. After each scoring, he would roar with excitement. Wei Qingguang teamed up with Chen Longcan to win the fourth gold medal at the Seoul Olympics for the Chinese team.
After 1990, Wei Qingguang crossed east to Japan and chose to become a Japanese citizen, and is currently renamed Weiguan Qingguang. In the 1998 Asian Championships, Wei Guan Qingguang has begun to represent Japan, in this Asian Championships, he defeated the national table tennis stars Ma Lin, Liu Guoliang and others in a row, and finally won the men's singles runner-up.
Although he has acquired Japanese citizenship, he is far away from his homeland. But he still cares about the motherland, and he is very grateful for the cultivation of the Chinese Table Tennis Association. At the beginning, the Chinese table tennis cooperation intentioned him to represent Japan in the Asian Games, so Weiguan Qingguang was grateful to the motherland from the heart and grateful to the Chinese table tennis team that cultivated himself. It's all a heartfelt feeling.