Li Furong

Li Furong ( Chinese  李富榮  /  李富荣 , Pinyin Lǐ Fùróng , W.-G. Li Fu-Jung ; * 1942 in Shanghai ) is a former Chinese table tennis player and official. He is three times vice world champion.

Career as a table tennis player

Li Furong played penholder style. In 1961 he won the Chinese national championship in singles, doubles (with Zhuang Zedong ) and mixed (with Han Yucheng).

From 1961 to 1973 he took part in five world championships . He was runner-up in the singles world championship three times in a row behind Zhuang Zedong , namely in 1961 , 1963 and 1965 . At these World Cups he reached the semi-finals in doubles with Wang Jiasheng, and he also won gold with the Chinese team, as well as again at the 1971 World Cup . In 1973 he ended his career as a competitive athlete.

In 1967 and 1969, China avoided the World Championships because of the Cultural Revolution .

Trainer and functionary

After the end of his active career, Li Furong coached the Chinese national team, which became world champions under his leadership in 1981 and 1983 . In 1979 he became Vice President of the Chinese Table Tennis Association. From 2001 to 2009 he was President of the Asian TT Association and Deputy President of the TT Association China.

In 1999 he was inducted into the ITTF Hall of Fame .

Private

Li Furong studied in Shanghai at the Institute of Physical Culture . He lives in Beijing.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
CHN	World Championship	1973	Sarajevo	YUG	last 16	last 16	no participants
CHN	World Championship	1971	Nagoya	JPN	Quarter finals	last 32	no participants	1
CHN	World Championship	1965	Ljubljana	YUG	silver	Semifinals	last 16	1
CHN	World Championship	1963	Prague	TCH	silver	Semifinals	last 64	1
CHN	World Championship	1961	Beijing	CHN	silver	Semifinals	silver	1

Web links

• Table Talk With Young Li Of Red China , Sports Illustrated March 30, 1964 (Engl.) ( Memento of 31 August 2010 at the Internet Archive ) (accessed on 7 August 2011)
• Biography (accessed August 7, 2011)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DTS magazine , 1961/24 West issue, page 5
2. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Enry James: Topspin: The Wonder Weapon (accessed on August 21, 2012)
3. ↑ TTVg Phoenix Biesfeld 46 eV (accessed on 22 September 2012) ( Memento of 20 April 2008 at the Internet Archive ) + magazine DTS , 1985/4 Page 21
4. ↑ http://english.people.com.cn/200508/31/eng20050831_205582.html + http://en.olympic.cn/photo/2010-11-17/2097545.html (accessed on August 12, 2011)
5. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2008/4 page 34 + 2009/12 page 4
6. ↑ http://www.ittf.com/museum/HoF/Hof.pdf
7. ^ Li Furong results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed September 11, 2011)

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

is the first name.