Liu Guozheng

Liu Guozheng (born March 7, 1980 in Wuhan ) is a Chinese table tennis player and trainer. He was twice world champion with the Chinese team.

Career

1997 Liu Guozheng was junior world champion in individual and with the team. From 1997 to 2005 he took part in seven world championships for adults. He was world champion with the Chinese team in 2001 and 2004 . He won silver three times, namely in 2000 in the team competition and in 2003 and 2005 in mixed with Bai Yang .

He was also successful several times at the Asian Championships . In 1998, 2000 and 2003 he won with the team, and in 2003 in a mixed with Li Nan .

In 2000 Liu Guozheng qualified for participation in the individual competition at the Olympic Games in Sydney. Here he defeated the Belgian Philippe Saive and the Taiwanese Chiang Peng-Lung , then retired in the quarter-finals against the Swede Jörgen Persson .

In the ITTF world rankings , Liu Guozheng was second from July to October 2001.

In 1999 Liu Guozheng was signed by the German Bundesliga club SV Plüderhausen . However, when it became known that he was illegally playing in a Chinese team at the same time, he lost his eligibility to play for Plüderhausen in January 2000.

In early 2006 he suffered a broken tibia, which is why he ended his active career in 2007.

Liu Guozheng has been the head coach of the Chinese national youth team since the beginning of 2012.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
CHN	Asian Championship ATTU	2003	Bangkok	THA	Quarter finals	Semifinals	gold	1
CHN	Asian Championship ATTU	2000	Doha	QAT				1
CHN	Asian Championship ATTU	1998	Osaka	JPN	Quarter finals			1
CHN	Asian Games	2002	Busan	COR				1
CHN	Olympic games	2000	Sydney	OUT	Quarter finals	no participants
CHN	Pro tour	2005	Gothenburg	SWE	Semifinals
CHN	Pro tour	2005	Magdeburg	GER	last 64	last 16
CHN	Pro tour	2005	Yokohama	JPN	Quarter finals	Quarter finals
CHN	Pro tour	2005	Shenzhen	CHN	Quarter finals	silver
CHN	Pro tour	2004	catfish	AUT	last 16	Quarter finals
CHN	Pro tour	2004	Leipzig	GER	silver
CHN	Pro tour	2003	Malmo	SWE	Quarter finals	silver
CHN	Pro tour	2003	Aarhus	THE	Quarter finals	Semifinals
CHN	Pro tour	2003	Bremen	GER	Semifinals	last 16
CHN	Pro tour	2003	Johor Bahru	MAS	gold	gold
CHN	Pro tour	2003	Kobe	JPN	last 16
CHN	Pro tour	2003	Croatia	HRV	last 16
CHN	Pro tour	2002	Eindhoven	NED	last 16	Semifinals
CHN	Pro tour	2002	Magdeburg	GER	last 16
CHN	Pro tour	2002	Fort Lauderdale	United States	last 16	Quarter finals
CHN	Pro tour	2002	Qingdao City	CHN	last 16	last 16
CHN	Pro tour	2002	Doha	QAT	last 32	last 16
CHN	Pro tour	2001	Skovde	SWE	last 16	last 16
CHN	Pro tour	2001	Fort Lauderdale	United States	gold	last 16
CHN	Pro tour	2001	Hainan	CHN	Semifinals	silver
CHN	Pro tour	2000	Umeå	SWE	gold	gold
CHN	Pro tour	2000	Warsaw	POLE	gold	gold
CHN	Pro tour	2000	Rio de Janeiro	BRA	last 32	Quarter finals
CHN	Pro tour	2000	Fort Lauderdale	United States	last 16	Quarter finals
CHN	Pro tour	2000	Kobe City	JPN	Quarter finals	Quarter finals
CHN	Pro tour	2000	Chang Chun City	CHN	Quarter finals	Semifinals
CHN	Pro tour	1999	Karlskrona	SWE	last 32	silver
CHN	Pro tour	1999	Lievin	FRA	Quarter finals	last 16
CHN	Pro tour	1999	Linz / Wels	AUT	Quarter finals	silver
CHN	Pro tour	1999	Bremen	GER	last 16	last 16
CHN	Pro tour	1999	Kobe City	JPN	Quarter finals	last 16
CHN	Pro tour	1999	Guilin	CHN	gold	last 16
CHN	Pro tour	1998	Sundsvall	SWE	last 16	Rd 1
CHN	Pro tour	1998	Belgrade	YUG	last 32	Semifinals
CHN	Pro tour	1998	Jinan City	CHN	last 32	last 16
CHN	Pro tour	1997	Lyon	FRA	Rd 1	Quarter finals
CHN	Pro tour	1997	Linz	AUT		silver
CHN	Pro tour	1997	Belgrade	YUG	Quarter finals	Quarter finals
CHN	Pro tour	1997	Ipoh	MAS	Quarter finals	silver
CHN	Pro tour	1996	Belgrade	YUG	Quarter finals
CHN	Pro Tour Grand Finals	2003	Guangzhou	CHN	Quarter finals
CHN	Pro Tour Grand Finals	2001	Hainan	CHN	last 16
CHN	Pro Tour Grand Finals	2000	Kobe City	JPN	silver	Semifinals
CHN	Pro Tour Grand Finals	1999	Sydney	OUT	gold
CHN	World Championship	2005	Shanghai	CHN	Quarter finals		silver
CHN	World Championship	2004	Doha	QAT				1
CHN	World Championship	2003	Paris	FRA	last 64		silver
CHN	World Championship	2001	Osaka	JPN	Quarter finals	Quarter finals	last 16	1
CHN	World Championship	2000	Kuala Lumpur	MAS				2
CHN	World Championship	1999	Eindhoven	NED	last 32	no participants	Quarter finals
CHN	World Championship	1997	Manchester	CLOSELY	no participants	last 32	last 32

Individual evidence

1. ↑ World ranking list since 2001 ( Memento of the original dated August 12, 2014 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 July 19, 2014) 
2. ↑ DTS magazine , 1999/8 page 17
3. ↑ DTS magazine , 2000/2, pp. 36–37
4. ↑ DTS magazine , 2008/2, page 7
5. ↑ DTS magazine , 2012/2 page 7
6. ↑ Liu Guozheng Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed July 19, 2014)

Web links

• Liu Guozheng in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original ) (accessed July 19, 2014)
• Liu Guozheng Article about Liu Guozheng on the website of the World Table Tennis Association ittf.com (accessed July 19, 2014)

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