Every time you go to the Olympic Games, the Chinese Table Tennis Team may be one of the most noticed teams, and everyone as a spectator will also be nervous with the score during the competition, but in their hearts, they are sure that the champion must be Chinese!
Completely unthinkingly determined.
At the Tokyo Olympic Games, Ma Long once again won the Olympic Championship, which made people call out the "veteran spirit"! And a foreign athlete also congratulated Malone on winning the championship.
He was Waldner, and Chinese affectionately called him "Old Watt.".
There are 6 generations of players in the history of national table tennis, all of whom have faced him;
Ranked first in the world for a total of 823 days, and ranked first in the world for 534 consecutive days;
17 years have never fallen out of the world's top ten;
These achievements are now taken out, and people will also be talked about, Waldner, what kind of charm does it have?
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Born in 1965, Waldner comes from an ordinary working-class family in Sweden, but he has been unyielding since he was a child.
At the age of 6, he began to learn to play table tennis with his brother, and when he was 12 years old, he won the first championship in his life, which showed his talent.
In 1980, 15-year-old Waldner and Linde were invited by the Chinese Table Tennis Association to come to Shanghai for three months of exchange, which was the beginning of the old Wa Chinese complex.
At that time, Chinese table tennis was the world champion, so Waldner has been carefully observing how the Chinese team trains and how to play, and he recalls that when he was training in Shanghai, he was even defeated on the ping-pong table by Chinese volleyball players who trained next to him.
At that time, no one thought that the teenager would become the opponent of China's captain for 21 years in the future.
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At the 1982 European Championships, the men's singles round of 64, Lao Wa swept the Soviet Union's domestic table tennis champion Ochalov (cold knowledge: that is, the father of the current Chinese opponent Ocharov).
Two years later, at the World Cup, Lao Wa reached the final of the World Cup, becoming the youngest player to qualify for the final of the Men's Table Tennis World Cup.
The record was later sealed for 36 years, until 2019, when it was broken by 16-year-old Zhang Benzhihe.
At the 40th World Table Tennis Championships in 1989, the Chinese team led by Jiang Jialiang, Fuji Yi and Chen Longcan was actually swept by Sweden 5:0 in the final, including Waldner.
In the following years, China's second-generation players have also retired. After the emergence of the third generation of opponents, Lao Wa still dominated the top of the international men's table tennis, winning the 1990 World Cup and the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Singles Championship. During that period, Waldner became an insurmountable peak in front of the eyes of the 3rd generation of Chinese players.
The Chinese team was in pain, and the gemini stars Liu Guoliang and Kong Linghui turned out to win the team championship at the 43rd World Table Tennis Championships, but Lao Wa still occupied the first place in the world ranking with a total score of 13 wins and 1 loss, and Liu Guoliang and Kong Linghui were not his opponents. He was 30 years old at the time, and Liu Guoliang and Kong Linghui were just 20 years old.
At the 2004 Athens Olympics, Lao Wa, who was already 40 years old, first defeated second seed Kong Linghui and Wang Hao in the doubles.
Two Olympic Games, eliminated Liu Guoliang, Ma Lin, Wang Hao, Kong Linghui, Lao Wa can be called the number one killer of China's men's singles at that time.
After losing to Liu Chengmin at the Athens Olympics, Waldner basically withdrew from the world table tennis arena.
This evergreen athlete has created extraordinary brilliance and achievements in his sports career, and has been loved and respected by fans all over the world, Chinese the love and evaluation of lao wa is very high.
Not only because he is indeed capable, technically passable, tactically strong, but also because he has grace on the pitch, and most importantly, the real sportsmanship embodied in him, undaunted, with the belief of victory to overcome everything, only time can beat him, and the love from the heart makes him seriously deal with every game.
It's admirable!