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Maxim Shmyrev (born 30 November 1971) is a male table tennis player from Moscow, Russia. He is a multiple Russian National Champion in table tennis , winning Men Singles title five times. He is also a three-times world champion of ping-pong (sandpaper), having won the first three world championships in that discipline, from 2011 to 2014.
This list of table tennis players is alphabetically ordered by surname. The main source of the information included in this page is the official International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) database. More detailed information about their careers is available in the individual players' articles, and in the ITTF database.
The first-person story of how ping pong saved the life of a New York City kid and took him all the way to North Korea New York Daily News, 2018, by Wally Green; Taking ping pong from losing, to winning, to diplomacy in North Korea - Wally Green, 2022 TEDx video; Playing Ping-pong With Wally Green, A Professional Table Tennis Player, 2023 video
Second male player to win the World Championships, World Cup, Olympics, and World Tour Grand Finals. He is the first male player to be the defending champion of all four at the same time. Fastest player ever to win all possible singles titles (2,092 days, from 20 November 2010 to 11 August 2016).
He was also the first of only six male players in the history of table tennis to achieve a career grand slam (World Champion, World Cup and Olympic gold medal winner in singles) (in 1992). The others are: Liu Guoliang , China (in 1999), Kong Linghui , China (in 2000), Zhang Jike , China (in 2012), Ma Long , China (in 2016), and Fan Zhendong ...
Kalinikos Kreanga (born March 8, 1972) is a Greek (formerly Romanian) table tennis player. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Born as Călin Creangă , he chose to defect from Communist-ruled Romania at the age of 17 (with his father) while he was participating in the European Table Tennis Youth Championships in Luxembourg in 1989.
[6] [7] From December 2013 to December 2024, Fan was ranked top five in the world according to the ITTF -- this eleven year streak is the longest in men's singles history. [ 8 ] Fan is the reigning Olympic gold medallist in men's singles, with his victory at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris making him the 6th male player (and 11th player ...
Outside Southeast Asia, Gonzales has represented the Philippines at the 2014 World Championship of Ping Pong winning bronze after bowing out to Maxim Shmyrev in the semifinal. [ 2 ] [ 7 ] Gonzales along with Ian Lariba were the Philippines' representatives at the 2014 World Team Table Tennis Championships .