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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 overall) to achieve a Grand Slam. [9] He is also a two-time team event gold medallist, as well as a two-time World Champion and four-time World Cup champion in men's singles.
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
Andrew Baggaley (born 26 February 1983) is a professional table tennis player from Milton Keynes.He is England's leading table tennis medal winner of all time in the Commonwealth Games, winning two gold medals in Manchester, England (2002), 1 silver medal in Melbourne, Australia (2006), 1 silver and 1 bronze medal in Delhi, India (2010) and 1 silver in Glasgow, Great Britain.
Chuang's parents were both table tennis players in Taiwan. [5] [6] His father was a national doubles champion, and his mother Lee Kuei-mei was a member of the national team. After the end of Lee's career as a player, her son, Chih-yuan, became one of her protégés in table tennis. Chuang started competing in 1989, at the age of eight. [1]
He paired with Kuai Man in mixed doubles event at the 2023 World Championships, winning bronze in his first appearance on the Championships. [9] After claiming men's singles title at the All China Table Tennis Championships , [ 5 ] Lin successfully defended his four titles at the 2023 ITTF World Youth Championships .
Dimitrij Ovtcharov (Russian: Дмитрий Овчаров) or Dmytro Ovtcharov (Ukrainian: Дмитро Овчаров; born 2 September 1988) is a Ukrainian-born German table tennis player. [6] His father Mikhail (or Mikhaylo), a Soviet table tennis champion in 1982, moved his family to Germany shortly after Dimitrij was born.
The victory helped him reach world No. 10 in the ITTF world ranking. [6] In August 2022, Qiu defeated Darko Jorgic 4–1 in the European Table Tennis Championships Finals . [ 7 ] As the top-ranked player in German team, Qiu help the team advance to the final of 2022 World Team Championships later in October and winning the silver medal.
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.