Ma Long is the captain of the national table tennis team and a superstar who talks and laughs with the CEO of the International Table Tennis Federation. His birthplace, Liaoning, was praised by the Japanese professional media "Zhuoqiu Kingdom" as "the cradle of the king of table tennis".
Recently, "ZhuoQiu Kingdom" published an article, inventorying a total of 18 male table tennis players from Liaoning, "China ZhuoQiu ren guoji 04 "king の揺籃- Liaoning Province" men's editor"; also selected a "very historical" 5-person All-Star team lineup.
There are 18 major male players from Liaoning Province:
【Shenyang】Li Peng, Wang Jun, Wang Huiyuan, Yu Shentong, Ma Lin, Tan Ruiwu, Han Yang (Japan), Lei Zhenhua, Zhou Bin
[Anshan City] Zhang Chao, Ma Long, Yin Hang
【Fushun City】Xu Hui, Wang Jianjun, Wu Jiaji (Dominican Republic), Sun Wen, Xu Haidong
【Jinzhou City】Zhai Yiming
Liaoning is one of the few "table tennis talents in China"; the birthplace of seven Olympic world champions such as ma lin, ma long, women's Hu Yulan, Wang Nan, Guo Yue, Li Xiaoxia and Liu Shiwen.
Ma Long, Guo Yue and Li Xiaoxia are from Anshan City. In Anshan City, which is known as the "City of Steel", table tennis was originally a relaxed and enjoyable sport and was very popular.
One of the important people who made the city into a "city of table tennis", named Bai Qinghan.
The struggle of the Chinese team at the Beijing World Table Tennis Championships in 1961 deeply touched Bai Qinghan. In the elementary school without a ping-pong table, Bai Qinghan began to instruct "drawing a ping-pong table on the ground and letting the children play".
His 3 children also became mentors. His eldest son, Bai Xiaodong, and his wife, Shi Haimei, together as the "enlightenment coaches" of Ma Long, Li Xiaoxia, Guo Yue, Wang Yuegu, Shi Lei (Shi Hejing) and others, took the title of "Gold Medal Couple".
Bai Qinghan's grandsons Bai Shi and Bai He are also active as athletes, and the "Three Generations of the Bai Family" are well-known in the table tennis world.
In addition, in 1988, when Ma Long, Guo Yue and Li Xiaoxia were born, the State General Administration of Sport selected Anshan City as a key city for the strengthening and popularization of table tennis, and built a table tennis training center that was better than the Liaoning team.
In 2013, the table tennis competition of the 12th National Games was held in Anshan City. Malone defeated Zhang Jike to win the title for the first time in men's singles and has since embarked on the road of "absolute king". Ma Long entered the Beijing Shichahai Sports School at the age of 13, and won the championship in his hometown at the age of 25, which added to The icing on the cake for Anshan.
According to Coach Wang Jun of the Liaoning Provincial Team (a member of the 1977 World Team Championship), "He is a player with a strong sense of the ball, he has a strong backhand when he enters the team, and he is not very good at forehand; but he has practiced more seriously than anyone in the team and honed the forehand sword." ”
Another "horse", Ma Lin is 8 years older than Ma Long and was born in the provincial capital of Shenyang. Although he was a member of the Liaoning Provincial Junior Team, he was selected by the Shantou Table Tennis School in Guangdong Province at the age of 13 with his teammate Tan Ruiwu (later changed to Croatia).
Liu Guozheng (2001 World Men's Team Champion) was also a member of the Shantou Table Tennis School at this time.
Marlene joined the national team at the age of 14, winning the national championship. The experience of being an athlete has come and gone, and Marlene has failed to reach the top three times in the finals of the World Championships. At the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, the title of gold medalist shone brightly.
Among the players who were active in the 1980s was Wang Huiyuan, who played with left-handed granular rubber. The 3rd place in the world in 1983 was his highest achievement, but his strength is still highly rated today. After retiring from the national team, Wang Huiyuan studied at Ryukoku University in Japan and served as the coach of the table tennis department of Ryugu University for a long time.
Yu Shentong, who was in the quarter-finals of the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games, retired from the Chinese national team at the age of 24 and competed in the Japanese League's Sumitomo Logistics (at that time). Mrs. Cho Dodo (Japanese name: Todo Hideko Todo) naturalized to Japan and participated in the Atlanta Olympics as a Japanese representative in 1996.
Yu Shentong later returned to China as the coach of the Men's Team of Liaoning Province. The men's coaching throne was inherited in 2014 by Li Xiaoxia's husband Zhai Yiming.
Coaching the women's team was Han Yang, a Japanese representative at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Among the table tennis players and coaches who came to Japan from China, there are many people from Liaoning Province. Please forgive me for not being able to finish the publication.
"ZhuoQiu Kingdom" also selected the liaoning provincial men's star team lineup:
Pioneer: Zhang Chao
Sub-front: Yu Shentong
Backbone: Wang Huiyuan
Vice Admiral: Marlene
General: Malone
"Dragon of Destruction of the Empire" Ma Long served as a general, and the last master of the traditional Chinese straight board with a well-known brain, Marlene, served as the deputy general, and there should be no objection. Yu Shentong and Wang Huiyuan, can senior table tennis friends talk about their history?
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