Chan Kong Wah

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Chan Kong Wah Table tennis player
Nation: Hong KongHong Kong Hong Kong
Date of birth: August 21, 1961
How to play: Penholder

Chan Kong Wah (born August 21, 1961 ) is a table tennis player and trainer from Hong Kong . He took part in the 1996 Olympic Games and played in the German Bundesliga for several years .

Career

Chan Kong Wah won the 1983 Commonwealth Championships in mixed with Hui So Hung and with the team. In 1995 he won gold in the individual and again in the team competition. From 1983 to 2000 he was nominated for six world championships , but never came close to medal ranks.

In 1996 he qualified for participation in the doubles competition at the Atlanta Olympics . Here he failed at the side of Lo Chuen Tsung after victories over Choi Gyong Sop / Li Gun Sang (North Korea) and Michael Hyatt / Stephen Hylton (Jamaica) as well as a defeat against the French Damien Éloi / Jean-Philippe Gatien in the opening act.

Since 1986 Chan Kong Wah has played for several Bundesliga clubs . Since he received a German passport in 1996, he no longer blocked a foreigner place on the team.

In 1987 and 1989 he helped Post SV Mülheim to move up to the Bundesliga. Because of the foreigner regulation in the Bundesliga, he "parked" in the 1987/88 season at the upper division PSV Oberhausen and then returned to Mühlheim. He was also involved in the promotion in 2001 at Würzburger Hofbräu and in 2002 at TTG Weitmar-Munscheid.

After the end of his active career, Chan Kong Wah worked as a table tennis trainer. First he coached the youngsters of Post SV Oberhausen, later he became the national coach of Hong Kong.

Private

Chan Kong Wah is married to table tennis player Mok Ka Sha (Hong Kong, No. 30 in the world rankings in 1989), with whom he has had a child since mid-1990.

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
HKG Asian Cup 2003 Tehran IRI 13th place 0
HKG Asian Cup 1985 Singapore SIN 9
HKG Asian Cup 1983 Wuxi CHN 14th
HKG Asian Games 1994 Hiroshima JPN Quarter finals Quarter finals
HKG Asian Games 1990 Beijing CHN Quarter finals Quarter finals
HKG Asian Games 1986 Seoul COR Quarter finals
HKG Commonwealth Championship 1995 Singapore SIN gold 1
HKG Commonwealth Championship 1983 Kuala Lumpur MAS silver gold 1
HKG Olympic games 1996 Atlanta United States no participants immediately excluded
HKG World Championship 2000 Kuala Lumpur MAS 21-24
HKG World Championship 1999 Eindhoven NED last 128 last 64 last 64
HKG World Championship 1995 Tianjin CHN last 64 last 32 last 64 20th
HKG World Championship 1993 Gothenburg SWE Agony last 32 last 64 14th
HKG World Championship 1985 Gothenburg SWE last 64 last 32 last 64 11
HKG World Championship 1983 Tokyo JPN last 128 last 64 last 64 17th

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Results of the 1996 Olympic Games ( 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 January 2, 2014)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ittf.com
  2. ↑ DTS magazine , 1996/9 page 4
  3. ↑ a b DTS magazine , 1986/11 page 17
  4. ↑ a b DTS magazine , 1988/6 page 27
  5. ↑ DTS magazine , 1995/6 page 47
  6. ↑ DTS magazine , 1996/6 page 29
  7. ↑ DTS magazine , 1998/8 page 15
  8. ↑ DTS magazine , 1999/8 page 17
  9. ↑ DTS magazine , 2000/8 page 50
  10. ↑ DTS magazine , 2001/6 page 25
  11. ↑ DTS magazine , 2001/8 page 27
  12. ↑ TT archive of Hans-Albert Meyer: 2nd BL 1981 - 2000 (accessed on January 2, 2014)
  13. ↑ TT archive of Hans-Albert Meyer: 2nd BL since 2000 (accessed on January 2, 2014)
  14. ↑ Reunion with Chan Kong Wah article in The West of October 11, 2007 (accessed January 2, 2014)
  15. ↑ DTS magazine , 1990/8 page 19
  16. ↑ DTS magazine , 1990/9 page 4
  17. ↑ Chan Kong Wah results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed January 2, 2014)
personal data
SURNAME Chan, Kong Wah
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese table tennis player and trainer (Hong Kong)
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1961