Chiang Yung-Ning

Chiang Yung-Ning / Jiang Yongning (* around 1927 , † 16th May 1968 ) was a from Hong Kong originating Chinese table tennis player .

Chiang Yung-Ning was a defender. He held the bat in penholder style. He won the Hong Kong Championship in 1952. In October 1952 he was the individual winner of the first ever national Chinese championship. He was nominated by the Chinese Table Tennis Association for the 1953 World Cup , the first World Cup in which China took part. Here he won against Johnny Leach , the world champion of 1949 and 1951. Before that, no Chinese table tennis player could defeat a world champion. In 1956 , 1957 and 1959 he was third with the Chinese team.

In 1966, during the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution , Chiang Yung-Ning fell into the hands of the Red Guards . He was convicted of espionage. He escaped humiliation, torture and re-education methods by suicide in 1968.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	competition	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
CHN	World Championship	1959	Dortmund	FRG	last 128	last 32	last 16	3
CHN	World Championship	1957	Stockholm	SWE	last 16	no participants	no participants	3
CHN	World Championship	1956	Tokyo	JPN	last 16	no participants	no participants	3
CHN	World Championship	1953	Bucharest	ROU	last 32	last 32	no participants	7th

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• Henry James: Bringing back every single ball , table tennis magazine , 2010/1 page 18

Individual evidence

1. ↑ was 25 years old in October 1952 - table tennis magazine , 2010/1 page 18
2. ↑ http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/more_sport/article1398185.ece
3. ↑ ITTF statistics ( memento from September 5, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) (accessed on April 2, 2019)

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Chiang is the family name here, Yung-Ning

is the first name.