Chai Po Wa
Chai Po Wa - also Qi Baohua - (born April 12, 1966 ) is a table tennis player from Hong Kong . It was internationally active from 1988 to 1999 and took part in six world championships and two Olympic Games .
Career
Chai Po Wa achieved her greatest successes at Commonwealth Championships, in which she participated in 1989, 1991, 1994 and 1995 and won 13 gold medals, four each in singles, four in doubles with Chan Tan Lui and in team competition and one in mixed. From 1989 to 1999 she was nominated for all six world championships . Here she won bronze four times, namely in 1989 and 1995 with the team and in 1993 with Chan Tan Lui and 1997 with Cheng Hongxia in doubles.
In 1992 she qualified for the first time to take part in the Olympic Games . In the individual she reached the quarter-finals after victories over Lee Jeong-Im (South Korea), Kerri Tepper (Australia), Sonia Touati (Tunisia) and Marie Hrachová , where she was defeated by the Chinese Qiao Hong . Also in doubles with Chan Tan Lui , she made it to the quarterfinals, which were lost to Chen Zihe / Gao Jun from China.
In 1996 she prevailed in the individual group matches against Fabiola Ramos (Venezuela), Mirjam Hooman-Kloppenburg and Adriana Nastase-Simion-Zamfir (Romania), but was eliminated against Kim Hyon-hui (North Korea). In doubles she competed again with Chan Tan Lui and came back to the quarterfinals. In the group matches they won against Eliana Gonzalez / Milagritos Gorriti (Peru) and Åsa Svensson / Pernilla Pettersson (Sweden) and were defeated by Kim Hyon-hui / Tu Jong-Sil (North Korea) and thus made it to the first round, where, however, Kim Mu Gyo / Park Gyeong-Ae (South Korea) were too strong.
The best place in the ITTF world rankings was achieved by Chai Po Wa at the end of 1992 with place 7.
Private
Chai Po Wa has an older sister, Qi Baoxiang , who is also a table tennis player.
Results from the ITTF database
| Association | event | year | place | country | singles | Double | Mixed | team |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HKG | Asian Championship | 1996 | Kallang | SIN | last 16 | Semifinals | silver | |
| HKG | Asian Championship | 1994 | Tianjin | CHN | Quarter finals | Semifinals | silver | |
| HKG | Asian Championship | 1990 | Kuala Lumpur | MAS | last 16 | Quarter finals | ||
| HKG | Asian Championship | 1988 | Niigata | JPN | Quarter finals | Quarter finals | ||
| HKG | Asian Cup | 1996 | New Delhi | IND | 3rd place | |||
| HKG | Asian Cup | 1993 | Shunde | CHN | 4th Place | |||
| HKG | Asian Cup | 1992 | Hong Kong | HKG | Semifinals | |||
| HKG | Asian Cup | 1991 | Dhaka | BAN | Semifinals | |||
| HKG | Asian Cup | 1989 | Beijing | CHN | 3rd place | |||
| HKG | Asian Cup | 1988 | Manila | PHI | 3rd place | |||
| HKG | Asian Games | 1994 | Hiroshima | JPN | Semifinals | Quarter finals | silver | |
| HKG | Asian Games | 1990 | Beijing | CHN | Quarter finals | Quarter finals | Quarter finals | |
| HKG | ASIA TOP8 | 1993 | Huangshi City | CHN | silver | |||
| HKG | Commonwealth Championship | 1995 | Singapore | SIN | gold | gold | gold | gold |
| HKG | Commonwealth Championship | 1994 | Hyderabad | IND | gold | gold | gold | |
| HKG | Commonwealth Championship | 1991 | Nairobi | KEN | gold | gold | gold | |
| HKG | Commonwealth Championship | 1989 | Cardiff | WHALE | gold | gold | gold | |
| HKG | Olympic games | 1996 | Atlanta | United States | last 16 | Quarter finals | ||
| HKG | Olympic games | 1992 | Barcelona | ESP | Quarter finals | Quarter finals | ||
| HKG | Pro tour | 1999 | Guilin | CHN | last 32 | last 16 | ||
| HKG | Pro tour | 1998 | Zagreb | HRV | silver | silver | ||
| HKG | Pro tour | 1997 | Squid | SWE | last 32 | Quarter finals | ||
| HKG | Pro tour | 1997 | Linz | AUT | last 16 | Semifinals | ||
| HKG | Pro tour | 1997 | Chiba | JPN | last 32 | last 16 | ||
| HKG | Pro tour | 1997 | Ipoh | MAS | Quarter finals | Quarter finals | ||
| HKG | Pro tour | 1997 | Melbourne | OUT | Quarter finals | Semifinals | ||
| HKG | Pro tour | 1997 | Kettering | CLOSELY | silver | gold | ||
| HKG | Pro tour | 1996 | Lyon | FRA | Semifinals | |||
| HKG | Pro tour | 1996 | Belgrade | YUG | Quarter finals | |||
| HKG | Pro tour | 1996 | Xi'an | CHN | Quarter finals | |||
| HKG | Pro tour | 1996 | Kettering | CLOSELY | Semifinals | |||
| HKG | Pro Tour Grand Finals | 1997 | Hong Kong | HKG | last 16 | Quarter finals | ||
| HKG | Pro Tour Grand Finals | 1996 | Tian Jin | CHN | Quarter finals | |||
| HKG | World Championship | 1999 | Eindhoven | NED | last 64 | last 64 | last 64 | |
| HKG | World Championship | 1997 | Manchester | CLOSELY | last 32 | Semifinals | last 32 | 5 |
| HKG | World Championship | 1995 | Tianjin | CHN | last 32 | Quarter finals | last 64 | 3 |
| HKG | World Championship | 1993 | Gothenburg | SWE | last 16 | Semifinals | last 32 | 4th |
| HKG | World Championship | 1991 | Chiba City | JPN | Quarter finals | Quarter finals | last 16 | 5 |
| HKG | World Championship | 1989 | Dortmund | FRG | last 128 | Quarter finals | last 64 | 3 |
| HKG | World cup | 1997 | Shanghai | CHN | 5th-8th space | |||
| HKG | World cup | 1996 | Hong Kong | HKG | 5th-8th space | |||
| HKG | World Doubles Cup | 1992 | Las Vegas | United States | Semifinals | |||
| HKG | World Doubles Cup | 1990 | Seoul | COR | silver | |||
| HKG | WTC World Team Cup | 1990 | Hokkaido, Aomori, Niig | JPN | 5 |
Individual evidence
- ↑ World rankings from 1947 to 2001 (Excel) (accessed on June 3, 2019)
- ↑ ITTF database (accessed June 3, 2019)
Web links
- Chai Po Wa in the Sports-Reference database (archived from the original ) (accessed June 3, 2019)
- Image from Chai Po Wa inTable Tennis News No. 199 May / June 1991 page 6 (accessed June 3, 2019)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Chai Po Wa |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Qi Baohua |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | hong kong chinese table tennis player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 12, 1966 |