Yin Xiao, a legend in the Chinese table tennis industry who has cultivated many world champions, took over the honor of the 2023 National Sports Outstanding Contribution Award in a low-key manner. Yin Xiao, who has entered his prime, plays an important role in the training of young table tennis players and has made outstanding contributions to China's sports industry.
Yin Xiao's athletic career has not been as brilliant as many of his fellow coaches, but he has gradually demonstrated extraordinary talent in coaching with his unremitting efforts and innovative spirit. After retiring, Yin Xiao rose to prominence as a coach with his profound strategic thinking and unique coaching style, and served as the head coach of the Jiangxi team and the Jiangxi women's table tennis team.
Under the careful guidance of Yin Xiao, the Jiangxi team has made great progress in the national table tennis tournament and successfully brought the relatively backward team to the national runner-up position. Since 1988, Yin Xiao has been involved in the development of national youth players, and from the very beginning, he has recognized the important qualities that good athletes and coaches need to have. Under his leadership, the national youth players have performed well and won many awards in domestic and foreign competitions. In 1991, he took over as the coach of the national first team, and his far-reaching vision focused on team building and training, so that the overall level of the national first team steadily improved.
During his tenure as the coach of the national team, Yin Xiao led the Chinese table tennis team to win numerous honors on the international stage with his keen insight and extraordinary creativity. Under the leadership of Yin Xiao, Chinese table tennis In that difficult period, Yin Xiao led the national table tennis out of the haze with his innovative spirit, and the "straight and horizontal play" technology he advocated and vigorously promoted has also become an important breakthrough in the history of Chinese table tennis.
This innovative technology has won people's love for its efficiency and precision, and completely subverted the traditional straight board play, making Chinese table tennis players more competitive in the competition. Take the famous table tennis player Liu Guoliang as an example, he has made a lot of innovations and attempts on the basis of the traditional straight and horizontal play, and finally created his own unique style of play, which not only has super attack power and flexibility, but also plays a very good performance in the game. This makes Liu Guoliang a legendary figure in the history of Chinese table tennis, and his style Xi of play has also become a model for other table tennis players to learn and learn from.
Yin Xiao is not only an outstanding player, but he also actively advocates the concept of "a hundred flowers blooming", and actively advocates the use of different styles of players against the European two-sided curveball method, which has helped promote the development of table tennis in China. THIS PHILOSOPHY IS ALSO REFLECTED IN HIS PROTÉGÉ KONG LINGHUI, WHO IS FAMOUS FOR HIS FEATURING EUROPEAN STYLE OF PLAY, AND TEAMED UP WITH LIU GUOLIANG TO CREATE THE "KONG LIU ERA".
During his tenure as the coach of the national team, Yin Xiao cultivated many outstanding players, including Ma Wenge, Liu Guoliang, Kong Linghui, Liu Guozheng, Zhang Jike and others, who not only paid attention to the cultivation of basic skills, but also encouraged the players to carry forward their strengths in the game. Among them, Liu Kong and Zhang Jike have won three Grand Slam championships. Under his guidance, a large number of outstanding players have emerged in the Chinese men's table tennis community, and his coaching style and training methods have also laid a solid foundation for the development of Chinese table tennis.
There have been five Grand Slam winners in men's table tennis so far, three of whom are from Yin Xiao's team. During his teaching career, he has produced outstanding players who have not only achieved excellent results in China, but also won championships in international competitions. His achievements have made important contributions to the development of Chinese table tennis, and also made people full of confidence in the future of Chinese table tennis.
Despite being 70 years old, Yin Xiao is still committed to the cultivation of table tennis talents. As the head coach of the national youth, he is exerting his valuable experience in this field and continues to contribute to the development of national table tennis. Yin Xiao's hard work undoubtedly once again confirmed his outstanding contribution to the sports industry in the mainland, making him deserve to be awarded the 2023 National Sports Outstanding Contribution Award issued by the General Administration of Sports of China.