Thing song

Ding Song ( Chinese  丁松 , Pinyin Dīng Sōng ; born September 5, 1971 ) is a Chinese table tennis player . In the 1990s he was twice world champion in team competition.

Career

Ding Song was considered the world's best defender . He participated in the 1995 and 1997 World Championships . Both times he won gold with the Chinese men's team. In 1995 he took bronze in the individual. He reached the quarter-finals in 1997 in singles and mixed with Wang Hui.

He won the ITTF Pro Tour tournaments in 1996 in Kitaku-Shu (Japan) and 1997 in Melbourne (Australia).

In 1997 he ended his career as a competitive athlete. A year later he moved from the Shanghai team to Germany and played for the Bundesliga club TTF Bad Honnef in the 1998/99 season . With his men's team he reached the final of the ETTU Cup in 2003 . Then he joined the TTC Frickenhausen . Here, too, he reached the final of the ETTU Cups with the team in 2003.

In 2003 he returned to China and competed in the Superliga ( Table Tennis Super League ). Since 2008 he has worked as a trainer at universities in Shanghai. Today he lives in Shanghai.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
CHN	Pro tour	1997	Zhuhai	CHN	last 32
CHN	Pro tour	1997	Chiba	JPN	last 32	last 16
CHN	Pro tour	1997	Melbourne	OUT	gold	last 16
CHN	Pro tour	1997	Doha	QAT	Quarter finals
CHN	Pro tour	1996	Kitaku-Shu	JPN	gold	Quarter finals
CHN	World Championship	1997	Manchester	CLOSELY	Quarter finals	no participants	Quarter finals	1
CHN	World Championship	1995	Tianjin	CHN	Semifinals	last 32	last 32	1
CHN	World cup	1996	Nimes	FRA	5th-8th space
CHN	WTC World Team Cup	1995	Atlanta	United States				5
CHN	WTC World Team Cup	1994	Nimes	FRA				1

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bundesliga history - the fourth decade: 1996 / 97-2004 / 2005 (accessed on August 13, 2011)
2. ↑ DTS magazine , 1998/8 p. 8
3. ↑ DTS magazine , 1999/8 p. 17
4. ↑ ITTF statistics ( Memento of the original from May 31, 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 September 5, 2011)  

Web links

• Chinese table tennis players (accessed August 13, 2011)

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