Chen Xinhua

Chen Xinhua ( Chinese  陈新华 , Pinyin Chén Xīnhuá ; born January 30, 1960 in Fujian , People's Republic of China ) is a table tennis player from China who has been playing for England since 1990, and won several medals in continental and mid-1990s from the late 1970s to the mid-1990s Won world championships. He also won the 1985 World Cup tournament. In the 1990s he also played in the German Bundesliga.

Career in China

Until about 1987, Chen Xinhua played under the Chinese flag. His first major international success was winning the Asian Cup in 1978 with the Chinese men's team, and he also reached the semi-finals in singles. He was nominated for the four world championships from 1981 to 1987. He won gold in the team competition in 1985 and 1987 . In mixed with Tong Ling he reached the final in 1981 and 1983 , in 1985 the couple failed in the semi-finals. He celebrated his greatest individual World Cup success in 1987 when he finished third.

In 1985, Chen Xinhua won the World Cup . In the ITTF world rankings , he finished fourth in 1986.

Career in England

From 1987 to 1997, Chen Xinhua lived in England. In 1990 he took the English citizenship, which entitled him to start under the English flag. He took part in the 1991 , 1993 and 1995 world championships. At the European Championships in 1992 he was runner-up with the English team, and in singles - like the European Championship in 1994 - he reached the quarter-finals. In the Team World Cup , he finished third with the English. He also qualified for the 1996 Olympic Games , but was eliminated in the first round.

In 1997, Chen Xinhua ended his career.

Clubs in Europe

In 1991, Chen Xinhua moved from the English club TTC Ormesby to the German Bundesliga for TSV Heilbronn-Sontheim . Two years later he joined the TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen . Here he only played in the 1995/96 season, then he was obliged by the Croatian club Vecernij List Zagreb .

Private

Chen Xinhua moved to England in 1987, where he married Jeanette Wood from England in December 1989. He has a child with her. After the end of his career, he returned to China in 1997, where he works as a businessman and plays golf as a hobby.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
CHN	Asian Championship ATTU	1978	Kuala Lumpur	MAS	Semifinals			1
CHN	Asian Cup	1985	Singapore	SIN	4th
CHN	Asian Games	1986	Seoul	COR				2
CHN	Asian Games	1982	New Delhi	IND		Semifinals	silver	1
CHN	Asian Games	1978	Bangkok	THA		Semifinals		1
CLOSELY	European Championship	1994	Birmingham	CLOSELY	Quarter finals
CLOSELY	European Championship	1992	Stuttgart	GER	Quarter finals			2
CLOSELY	EURO TOP12	1993	Copenhagen	THE	11
GBR	Olympic games	1996	Atlanta	United States	immediately excluded	no participants
CLOSELY	World Championship	1995	Tianjin	CHN	last 32	no participants	no participants	13
CLOSELY	World Championship	1993	Gothenburg	SWE	last 64	last 32	no participants	12
CLOSELY	World Championship	1991	Chiba City	JPN	last 16	last 32	no participants	10
CHN	World Championship	1987	New Delhi	IND	Semifinals	Quarter finals	no participants	1
CHN	World Championship	1985	Gothenburg	SWE	last 16	no participants	Semifinals	1
CHN	World Championship	1983	Tokyo	JPN	Quarter finals	Quarter finals	silver
CHN	World Championship	1981	Novi Sad	YUG	no participants	last 32	silver
CLOSELY	World cup	1993	Guangzhou	SWE	5th-8th space
CHN	World cup	1985	Foshan	CHN	gold
CLOSELY	WTC World Team Cup	1994	Nimes	FRA				5
CLOSELY	WTC World Team Cup	1991	Barcelona	ESP				5
CLOSELY	WTC World Team Cup	1990	Hokkaido, Aomori, Niig	JPN				3

Individual evidence

1. ↑ World rankings 1947 to 2001 (Excel; 171 kB) ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on August 25, 2011)  
2. ↑ ^{a b} Journal DTS , 1990/1 page 3 + 1997/9 page 15
3. ↑ ^{a b} DTS magazine , 1997/9 page 15
4. ↑ DTS magazine , 1991/3 page 22 + 1991/6 page 9
5. ↑ DTS magazine , 1993/4 page 12
6. ↑ DTS magazine , 1996/5 page 36
7. ↑ Table Tennis News - Official Journal of the English Table Tennis Association, February 1990, pages 3 + 7 (accessed August 14, 2014)
8. ↑ DTS magazine , 1991/8 page 17
9. ^ Chen Xinhua results from ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed September 17, 2011)

Web links

• Chen Xinhua in the Sports-Reference database (archived from the original ) (accessed August 25, 2011)

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Chen is the family name here, Xinhua is the first name.