Cai Zhenhua

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Cai Zhenhua (born September 3, 1961 in Wuxi ) is a Chinese table tennis player , trainer and official. He became a four-time world champion in the early 1980s.

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Cai Zhenhua is left-handed. He took part in the world championships in 1981 , 1983 and 1985 and won at least one title each time: 1981 in doubles with Li Zhenshi and with the Chinese men's team, 1983 with the team and 1985 in mixed with Cao Yanhua . In singles, he reached the final in 1981 and 1983, which he lost to Guo Yuehua . There are also two bronze medals, mixed with Cao Yanhua in 1983 and doubles with Jiang Jialiang in 1985 .

He also won several titles at the Asian Championships . In 1980 and 1982 he won with the team, in 1982 he was also Asian champion in the individual. In doubles he reached the final in 1980 (with Shi Zhihao ) and 1982 (with Jiang Jialiang).

In the ITTF world rankings he was ranked first in 1984. In 2010 he was inducted into the ITTF Hall of Fame .

Trainer and functionary

Cai Zhenhua coached the Italian national team from 1985 to 1989. He then returned to China and became national coach there. In 1991 he was promoted to head coach.

In 2004 he stopped his coaching activity and became director of the administrative center for table tennis and badminton. In 2009 he replaced Li Furong as president of the Asian TT association ATTU. In 2010 he also took on responsibility for Chinese football. In 2018 he was elected Vice President of the All-China Trade Union Confederation ACGB .

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Cai Zhenhua is shown on a postage stamp of the Swedish Post for 3.20 Swedish crowns, which was issued for the 1985 Table Tennis World Championships in Gothenburg on March 14, 1985 ( Michel no. 1327).

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
CHN  Asian Championship ATTU  1982  Jakarta  INA gold  silver  Semifinals  1
CHN  Asian Championship ATTU  1980  Calcutta  IND     silver  Semifinals  1
CHN  Asian Cup  1984  New Delhi  IND 2    
CHN  Asian Cup  1983  Wuxi  CHN  1      
CHN  Asian Games  1982  New Delhi  IND       1
CHN  World Championship  1985  Gothenburg  SWE no participants  Semifinals  gold   
CHN  World Championship  1983  Tokyo  JPN silver  Quarter finals  Semifinals  1
CHN  World Championship  1981  Novi Sad  YUG silver  gold  Quarter finals  1
CHN  World cup  1984  Kuala Lumpur  MAS 7th     
CHN  World cup  1983  Barbados  0 10     

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DTS magazine , 1981/9 page 6
  2. ↑ Historical world rankings ( memento of March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on August 5, 2011; PDF; 148 kB)
  3. ↑ DTS magazine , 2004/12 page 7
  4. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2009/12 page 4
  5. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2010/9 page 7
  6. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2018/10 page 52
  7. ^ Cai Zhenhua results from ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed September 17, 2011)

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

is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Cai Zhenhua
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 蔡振华 (Chinese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese table tennis player, trainer and official
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd September 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Wuxi ( Jiangsu Province )