Kou Lei

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Kou Lei Table tennis player
Kou Lei
Kou Lei, Top 16 Antibes 2017
Nation: UkraineUkraine Ukraine
Date of birth: November 20, 1987
Place of birth: Beijing
Playing hand: right
How to play: Shakehand (attack)
Current world rankings : 33
Best world ranking : 20 (April 2017)
Clubs as active:
2011-2014 BelgiumBelgium Logis Auderghem NRCS
2014-2015 ?
2015-2016 FranceFrance Roanne LNTT
2016-2017 GermanyGermany TTC drawbridge Grenzau

Kou Lei (born November 20, 1987 in Beijing ) is a Ukrainian table tennis player of Chinese origin who played in the German Bundesliga from 2016 to 2017 .

Career

Kou Lei came to Ukraine in 2005 and obtained Ukrainian citizenship prior to the 2008 Beijing Olympics so he could compete for Ukraine. However, he was eliminated in the first round. In 2008 he also took part in a world championship for the first time and reached place 26 with the team starting in the second division. In 2010, Kou Lei took part in a European championship for the first time and won bronze in doubles. At the World Cup , the team started in the first division, but only reached 21st place and therefore had to compete in the second division again in 2012 . With 25th place, Ukraine was able to climb back into the first division and in 2014 reached 15th place. This year, Kou Lei also made it into the top 100 of the world rankings for the first time . At the 2015 World Cup he made it to the round of 16, where he was eliminated with 2: 4 by Patrick Franziska . At the European Games in Baku he won the bronze medal in singles after a semi-final defeat by Vladimir Samsonov and a victory over Paul Drinkhall . In 2016 he reached 15th place with the Ukrainian team at the World Cup and made it to the last sixteen at the Olympic Games , which he lost to Marcos Freitas . He reached the quarter-finals at the European Championships in 2016 , and came fourth in his first Europe Top 16 participation in 2017 . As a result, he reached a new record with 20th place in the world rankings.

For the 2016/17 season he moved from the French club Roanne LNTT to the German Bundesliga club TTC Zugbrücke Grenzau , for whom he achieved a score of 10:10. In October 2017 he took part in the World Cup for the first time and reached the main round, in which he was eliminated by Dimitrij Ovtcharov . Also due to an injury, he started the 2017/18 Bundesliga season with a 1: 5 record , was able to increase to 6: 8, but was then dismissed when he called in sick for the 10th matchday, but at the same time for one Tournament played in Oman. He also took part in the Europe Top 16 in 2018 and 2019 , but was eliminated in the first round. He was successful again at the European Games , where he finished in 4th place in 2019, placed 33rd.

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
UKR European Championship 2018 Alicante ESP last 16 last 32
UKR European Championship 2017 Luxembourg LUX 7th place
UKR European Championship 2016 Budapest HUN Quarter finals last 16
UKR European Championship 2015 Ekaterinburg RUS last 16 last 32 16th place
UKR European Championship 2014 Lisbon POR 17.-18. space
UKR European Championship 2013 Schwechat AUT last 32
UKR European Championship 2012 Herning THE last 32
UKR European Championship 2011 Gdańsk-Sopot POLE Quarter finals
UKR European Championship 2010 Ostrava CZE Semifinals
UKR European Games 2019 Minsk BLR 4th Place
UKR European Games 2015 Baku AZE bronze last 16
UKR Europe Top 16 2019 Montreux SUI last 16
UKR Europe Top 16 2018 Montreux SUI last 16
UKR Europe Top 16 2017 Antibes FRA 4th Place
UKR Olympic games 2016 Rio de Janeiro BRA last 16
UKR Olympic games 2008 Beijing CHN Agony
UKR ITTF Challenge Series 2018 Minsk BLR last 32 silver
UKR ITTF Pro Tour 2009 Minsk BLR last 32 Semifinals
UKR World Championship 2019 Budapest HUN last 64
UKR World Championship 2018 Halmstad SWE 27.-28. space
UKR World Championship 2017 Dusseldorf GER last 64 last 64
UKR World Championship 2016 Kuala Lumpur MAS 15.-16. space
UKR World Championship 2015 Suzhou CHN last 16 Agony last 64
UKR World Championship 2014 Tokyo JPN 15th
UKR World Championship 2013 Paris FRA last 128 last 64 last 64
UKR World Championship 2012 Dortmund GER 25th
UKR World Championship 2011 Rotterdam NED last 128 last 32
UKR World Championship 2010 Moscow RUS 21st
UKR World Championship 2009 Yokohama JPN last 128 last 128
UKR World Championship 2008 Guangzhou CHN 26th
UKR World cup 2017 Liege BEL last 16

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ results.ittf.link . (accessed July 1, 2018).
  2. ↑ EUROPEAN GAMES IN BAKU: And the winner is… Dimitrij Ovtcharov. tt-news.de, accessed on March 21, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Europe Top 16: Ovtcharov gets the triple. ttbl.de, February 5, 2017, accessed on March 21, 2020 .
  4. ^ Grenzau signs Kou Lei. ttbl.de, February 23, 2016, accessed on March 21, 2020 .
  5. ↑ World Cup: Boll and Ovtcharov are in the semifinals! mytischtennis.de, October 21, 2017, accessed on March 21, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Grenzau separates from Kou Lei. ttbl.de, December 13, 2017, accessed December 14, 2017 . + Magazine tischtennis , 2018/1 page 29: René Adler: An end with horror
  7. ^ Men's Singles Seeding List. ittf.cdnomega.com, accessed March 21, 2020 .
  8. ↑ EUROPEAN GAMES: Timo Boll wins gold in Minsk. tt-news.de, accessed on March 21, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Kou Lei results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed August 19, 2016)
personal data
SURNAME Kou, lei
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Beijing , PR China