According to @Table Tennis World TTW on October 15, the Organizing Committee of the 2024 National Table Tennis Championships issued a "Notice of Change of Athletes Participating in the Team Competition", saying that Wang Chuqin, Sun Yingsha, and Wang Manyu withdrew from the team event of the National Championships.
According to the notice, in the men's team competition, Wang Chuqin, who originally represented the Beijing Baxi team, was replaced by Sun Yang. In the women's team competition, Wang Manyu, who originally represented the Heilongjiang Galaxy team, was replaced by Ge Chenxi; Sun Yingsha, who originally represented the Hebei team, was replaced by Yao Ruixuan.
It is reported that the 2024 National Table Tennis Championship will be held in Ordos City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region from October 11 to 19. The event has a total of 5 events: men's singles, women's singles, mixed doubles, men's team and women's team, with a total of 274 athletes from 28 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities across the country participating.
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According to a previous report by Qingchun Baoan, Sun Yang, born in Shenzhen in February 2008, was excavated by Bao'an Sports School at the age of 6 and began to participate in table tennis training; At the age of 8, he won the men's singles championship in the table tennis competition of the 9th Shenzhen Games; At the age of 10, he officially joined the Beijing Youth Table Tennis Team and became a professional athlete; At the age of 12, he was successfully selected for the national youth training team; At the age of 15, he won the men's team championship of the 2022 National Youth Table Tennis Championships.
In 2023, Sun Yang will represent the Chinese team in WTT · The U15 Germany Berlin station swept Europe, won 9 consecutive games, won the singles championship, and won 1 world-class championship medal. On July 2, 2024, in the final of the U19 men's team of the 2024 Asian Junior Table Tennis Championship, Sun Yang defeated Korea's Kim Jiawen 3-0, and the Chinese team won the gold medal. In October, in the men's doubles match of the WTT feeder tournament, Sun Yang/Chen Junxiang defeated Ao Hualei/Long Yu 3-2 to win the championship.
Looking forward to the wonderful performance of Sun Yang and others!
Source: China Youth Daily, Table Tennis World TTW, Youth Baoan, and the official website of the China Table Tennis Association