Liu Jia
Liu Jia 
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| Liu Jia (Vienna 2008) | |
| Nickname: | Susi |
| Nation: |
 Austria
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| Date of birth: | 16th February 1982 (age 38) |
| Place of birth: | Beijing |
| Playing hand: | Left |
| How to play: | Shakehand |
| Current world rankings : | 46 |
| Best world ranking : | 9 (April - June 2005) |
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Liu Jia ( Chinese 刘佳 , Pinyin Liú Jiā ; born February 16, 1982 in Beijing , China ) is an Austrian table tennis player of Chinese origin. She moved to Austria in 1997 and was naturalized in 1998. In 2005 she won the European Championship in singles. She took part in five Olympic Games .
Life
From 1992 to 1995, Liu attended Shicha Hai Sports School boarding school in Beijing. After completing this school, she qualified for admission to the Shian Nuntan professional club . A close friend there was the later Olympic champion ( Athens 2004 ) and world champion ( Shanghai 2005 ) Zhang Yining . Liu won the student championship and took third place in the youth rankings. However, due to the tough competition from other Chinese players, she had little chance of international appearances. Life in the boarding school also dampened the joy of playing table tennis and her parents advised her to stop training and study instead. During this time she received an offer from Japan, which she did not accept. Finally, through her future coach Liu Yan Jun, the opportunity arose to travel to Austria, where she arrived in March 1997.
Without speaking German or English, but with the opportunity to play for the TTC Linz AG Froschberg club, she moved to Upper Austria. Within the first year she learned the German language and with the victory at the 1st International Austrian Youth Championships in Linz achieved her first sporting success after moving. On February 16, 1998, her 16th birthday, she was granted Austrian citizenship and accepted into the national team.
The 1.60 m tall and 49 kg heavy left-hander, soon to be called Susi in Austria , won several titles at European Youth Championships (1998 in singles, doubles with Ivana Weberova and mixed with Josef Simoncik (CZE), in 1999 in singles and mixed games Yu Kalun (NED)) and rose to the top 100 in the world rankings . Since 1999 she has been training as an army athlete in the Army Sports Center with the Army Performance Center (HSLZ) of the Austrian Armed Forces . The following year she reached the quarter-finals at the European Championships in singles and doubles and was able to qualify without defeat (world number 48) for the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney , where she reached the finals of the top 32. At the Team World Cup 2000 , she only lost one game.
This was followed by the quarterfinals at the 2001 World Championships in Osaka , several state championships and the bronze medal in mixed doubles (with Werner Schlager ) at the European Championships in 2002 in Zagreb . A shoulder injury in 2003 put Liu's further athletic career into question, but was cured during a stay of several months with Chinese doctors and therapists in China. In 2004 she improved, including a victory at the Malaysia Open table tennis championships, in the world rankings to 13th place and took part in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens .
In 2005, she won the European table tennis championship and began to prepare for qualification for the 2008 Olympic Games in her hometown of Beijing, in which she participated as a member of the Austrian team . She reached round 3 in the singles. With the Austrian team she came second in Group A behind hosts China, but in the bronze play-off the team was eliminated from the tournament in round 1 against Japan.
For the opening ceremony of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro , Liu was chosen as the flag bearer of the Austrian Olympic team.
In 2017 Liu Jia moved from Linz AG Froschberg to the German Bundesliga for club SV DJK Kolbermoor , which she left for TTC Linz AG Froschberg in 2020.
Greatest successes
- 2015: 1st place in the Europe TOP-16
- 2014: Winner of the DHS Europe Cup
- 2010: 2nd place in the individual at the European Championships
- 2008: 2nd place in the individual at the European Championships
- 2005: European champion in singles and 3rd place in mixed competition with Werner Schlager
- 2005: Winner of the European ranking tournament Europe TOP-12
- 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016 Olympic participation
- various Pro Tour tournament victories
- multiple Austrian national champion
Publications
- Liu Jia / Peter Lenglacher: Beijing - Linz and back , Rudolf Trauner Verlag, ISBN 3854994184
Private
Liu Jia has a daughter (* July 2011) with her Danish husband David Arvidson.
Results from the ITTF database
| Association | event | year | place | country | singles | Double | Mixed | team |
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| AUT | European Championship | 2012 | Herning | THE | Semifinals | |||
| AUT | European Championship | 2010 | Ostrava | CZE | silver | |||
| AUT | European Championship | 2009 | Stuttgart | GER | Quarter finals | |||
| AUT | European Championship | 2008 | St. Petersburg | RUS | silver | |||
| AUT | European Championship | 2007 | Belgrade | SRB | last 16 | Quarter finals | ||
| AUT | European Championship | 2005 | Aarhus | THE | gold | Semifinals | ||
| AUT | European Championship | 2002 | Zagreb | HRV | Quarter finals | Quarter finals | Semifinals | |
| AUT | European Championship | 2000 | Bremen | GER | Quarter finals | Quarter finals | ||
| AUT | European Youth Championship (Juniors) | 1999 | Frydek-Mistek | CZE | gold | gold | ||
| AUT | European Youth Championship (Juniors) | 1998 | Norcia | ITA | gold | gold | gold | |
| AUT | EURO TOP12 | 2011 | Liege | BEL | 5th place | |||
| AUT | EURO TOP12 | 2010 | Dusseldorf | GER | 9th place | |||
| AUT | EURO TOP12 | 2009 | Dusseldorf | GER | 3rd place | |||
| AUT | EURO TOP12 | 2008 | Frankfurt | GER | 5th place | |||
| AUT | EURO TOP12 | 2007 | Arezzo | ITA | 3rd place | |||
| AUT | EURO TOP12 | 2006 | Copenhagen | THE | 2 | |||
| AUT | EURO TOP12 | 2005 | Rennes | FRA | 1st place | |||
| AUT | EURO TOP12 | 2004 | Frankfurt | GER | 3rd place | |||
| AUT | EURO TOP12 | 2002 | Rotterdam | NED | 9 | |||
| AUT | EURO TOP12 | 2001 | catfish | AUT | 5 | |||
| AUT | Olympic games | 2012 | London | CLOSELY | last 32 | 9 | ||
| AUT | Olympic games | 2008 | Beijing | CHN | last 32 | 7th | ||
| AUT | Olympic games | 2004 | Athens | GRE | last 32 | |||
| AUT | Olympic games | 2000 | Sydney | OUT | last 32 | immediately excluded | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2013 | Berlin | GER | last 64 | |||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2013 | Olomouc | CZE | Quarter finals | |||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2013 | Changchun | CHN | last 32 | |||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2013 | catfish | AUT | last 16 | |||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2012 | Bremen | GER | last 64 | |||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2012 | Olomouc | CZE | gold | |||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2012 | Kobe | JPN | last 32 | |||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2012 | Shanghai | CHN | last 32 | |||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2012 | Almeria | ESP | last 32 | |||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2012 | Almeria | ESP | last 32 | |||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2012 | Velenje | SLO | last 32 | |||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2012 | Budapest | HUN | last 32 | |||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2010 | Warsaw | POLE | last 32 | |||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2010 | catfish | AUT | last 64 | last 16 | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2010 | Berlin | GER | last 16 | |||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2010 | Kuwait City | KUW | last 32 | |||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2010 | Doha | QAT | last 16 | |||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2009 | Warsaw | POLE | last 32 | |||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2009 | Tianjin | CHN | Quarter finals | |||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2009 | Minsk | BLR | Semifinals | |||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2009 | Velenje | SVN | Quarter finals | |||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2008 | Berlin | GER | gold | |||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2008 | Salzburg | AUT | Quarter finals | 5 | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2008 | Singapore | SIN | Quarter finals | last 16 | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2008 | Daejeon | COR | last 16 | |||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2008 | Doha | QAT | last 32 | Semifinals | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2008 | Kuwait City | KUW | last 16 | |||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2008 | Velenje | SVN | Quarter finals | |||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2007 | Stockholm | SWE | last 32 | |||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2007 | Bremen | GER | last 32 | |||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2007 | catfish | AUT | last 64 | last 16 | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2007 | Taipei | TPE | last 32 | |||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2007 | Nanjing | CHN | last 16 | last 16 | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2007 | Chiba | JPN | last 16 | |||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2007 | Seongnam | COR | Quarter finals | last 16 | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2007 | Salwa Cup | KUW | Quarter finals | last 16 | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2007 | Doha | QAT | last 16 | last 16 | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2007 | Velenje | SVN | last 16 | last 16 | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2006 | Warsaw | POLE | silver | silver | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2006 | Bayreuth | GER | Semifinals | last 16 | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2006 | St. Petersburg | RUS | last 32 | Quarter finals | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2006 | Yokohama | JPN | last 32 | last 16 | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2006 | Guangzhou | CHN | last 16 | last 16 | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2006 | Kunshan | CHN | last 32 | Quarter finals | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2006 | Taipei | TPE | Semifinals | Semifinals | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2006 | Jeonju | COR | last 16 | Quarter finals | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2006 | Kuwait City | KUW | last 32 | Quarter finals | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2006 | Zagreb | HRV | last 32 | |||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2006 | Velenje | SVN | last 32 | last 16 | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2005 | Magdeburg | GER | last 32 | |||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2005 | St. Petersburg | RUS | last 32 | Semifinals | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2005 | Harbin | CHN | last 16 | Quarter finals | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2005 | Rio de Janeiro | BRA | Quarter finals | Semifinals | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2005 | Doha | QAT | last 32 | last 16 | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2005 | Zagreb | HRV | last 16 | last 16 | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2004 | catfish | AUT | Semifinals | last 16 | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2004 | Leipzig | GER | last 32 | |||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2004 | Warsaw | POLE | last 16 | last 16 | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2004 | Chicago | United States | Quarter finals | gold | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2004 | Rio de Janeiro | BRA | gold | last 16 | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2004 | Singapore | SIN | Quarter finals | last 16 | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2004 | Cairo | EGY | silver | last 16 | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2004 | Athens | GRE | last 64 | last 16 | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2004 | Croatia | HRV | silver | |||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2003 | Aarhus | THE | last 64 | last 16 | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2003 | Bremen | GER | last 64 | |||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2003 | Kobe | JPN | last 64 | Quarter finals | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2003 | Guangzhou | CHN | last 64 | |||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2003 | Jeju-Si | COR | silver | last 16 | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2003 | Rio | BRA | Quarter finals | Quarter finals | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2002 | Eindhoven | NED | last 16 | last 16 | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2002 | Magdeburg | GER | last 32 | Semifinals | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2002 | São Paulo | BRA | Quarter finals | Quarter finals | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2002 | Fort Lauderdale | United States | last 16 | last 16 | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2002 | Qingdao City | CHN | last 16 | last 16 | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2002 | Courmayeur | ITA | last 32 | last 16 | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2002 | Doha | QAT | last 16 | Quarter finals | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2002 | catfish | AUT | last 64 | Semifinals | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2001 | Rotterdam | NED | last 16 | last 16 | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2001 | Bayreuth | GER | last 16 | Quarter finals | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2001 | Sao Paulo | BRA | silver | Scratched | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2001 | Hainan | CHN | last 16 | Scratched | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2001 | Zagreb | HRV | last 16 | silver | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2001 | Doha | QAT | Semifinals | Semifinals | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2001 | Chatham | CLOSELY | last 16 | Quarter finals | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2000 | Farum | THE | Quarter finals | Semifinals | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2000 | Warsaw | POLE | Quarter finals | last 16 | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2000 | Toulouse | FRA | last 16 | Quarter finals | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2000 | Rio de Janeiro | BRA | last 32 | last 16 | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2000 | Chang Chun City | CHN | Quarter finals | last 16 | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 2000 | Zagreb | HRV | last 16 | last 16 | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 1999 | Prague | CZE | Semifinals | silver | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 1999 | Karlskrona | SWE | last 32 | Quarter finals | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 1999 | Lievin | FRA | last 16 | |||
| AUT | Pro tour | 1999 | Linz / Wels | AUT | last 32 | last 16 | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 1999 | Melbourne | OUT | last 16 | silver | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 1999 | Zagreb | HRV | last 32 | Quarter finals | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 1999 | Hopton-on-Sea | CLOSELY | last 32 | Semifinals | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 1999 | Doha | QAT | Rd 1 | silver | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 1998 | Sundsvall | SWE | last 16 | last 16 | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 1998 | Belgrade | YUG | last 16 | last 16 | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 1998 | Courmayeur | ITA | Rd 1 | last 16 | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 1998 | Jinan City | CHN | Rd 1 | last 16 | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 1998 | Melbourne | OUT | last 32 | Quarter finals | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 1998 | Wakayama | JPN | last 32 | Scratched | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 1998 | Kota Kinabalu | MAS | last 16 | last 16 | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 1998 | Zagreb | HRV | last 32 | last 16 | ||
| AUT | Pro tour | 1997 | Gdańsk | POLE | Quarter finals | Quarter finals | ||
| AUT | Pro Tour Grand Finals | 2008 | Macau | MAC | Quarter finals | |||
| AUT | Pro Tour Grand Finals | 2006 | Hong Kong | HKG | last 16 | |||
| AUT | Pro Tour Grand Finals | 2004 | Beijing | CHN | Semifinals | Quarter finals | ||
| AUT | Pro Tour Grand Finals | 2003 | Guangzhou | CHN | last 16 | |||
| AUT | Pro Tour Grand Finals | 2001 | Hainan | CHN | last 16 | Quarter finals | ||
| AUT | Pro Tour Grand Finals | 2000 | Kobe City | JPN | last 16 | Quarter finals | ||
| AUT | Pro Tour Grand Finals | 1999 | Sydney | OUT | Semifinals | |||
| AUT | Pro Tour Grand Finals | 1998 | Paris | FRA | Semifinals | |||
| AUT | World Championship | 2013 | Paris | FRA | last 16 | |||
| AUT | World Championship | 2012 | Dortmund | GER | 10 | |||
| AUT | World Championship | 2009 | Yokohama | JPN | last 32 | last 16 | ||
| AUT | World Championship | 2008 | Guangzhou | CHN | 6th | |||
| AUT | World Championship | 2007 | Zagreb | HRV | last 16 | last 64 | last 32 | |
| AUT | World Championship | 2006 | Bremen | GER | 8th | |||
| AUT | World Championship | 2005 | Shanghai | CHN | last 32 | last 32 | Quarter finals | |
| AUT | World Championship | 2003 | Paris | FRA | last 32 | last 32 | last 16 | |
| AUT | World Championship | 2001 | Osaka | JPN | Quarter finals | Quarter finals | last 32 | 16 |
| AUT | World Championship | 2000 | Kuala Lumpur | MAS | 31 | |||
| AUT | World Championship | 1999 | Eindhoven | NED | last 64 | last 32 | last 128 | |
| AUT | World cup | 2018 | Cheng you | CHN | last 16 | |||
| AUT | World cup | 2017 | Markham | CAN | last 16 | |||
| AUT | World cup | 2016 | Philadelphia | United States | Quarter finals | |||
| AUT | World cup | 2015 | Sendai | JPN | Quarter finals | |||
| AUT | World cup | 2014 | Linz | AUT | Quarter finals | |||
| AUT | World cup | 2013 | Kobe | JPN | 9-12. space | |||
| AUT | World cup | 2012 | Huangshi | CHN | Quarter finals | |||
| AUT | World cup | 2009 | Guangzhou | CHN | Quarter finals | |||
| AUT | World cup | 2007 | Cheng you | CHN | Quarter finals | |||
| AUT | World cup | 2006 | Urumqi | CHN | 9-12. space | |||
| AUT | World cup | 2005 | Guangzhou | CHN | 9-12. space | |||
| AUT | World cup | 2004 | Hangzhou | CHN | 9-12. space | |||
| AUT | World cup | 2001 | Wuhu | CHN | 9-12. space | |||
| AUT | WTC World Team Cup | 2009 | Linz | AUT | 5th place | |||
| AUT | WTC World Team Cup | 2007 | Magdeburg | GER | 5 |
Web links
- Literature by and about Liu Jia in the catalog of the German National Library
- OÖN : table tennis scene - a murderous drill , August 14, 2008
- Sportnet.at: Liu Jia: Return to Beijing ( Memento from January 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), July 22, 2008
- Liu Jia biography on the website of the World Table Tennis Federation ittf.com (accessed June 22, 2014)
- Liu Jia in the Sports-Reference database (archived from the original ) (accessed June 22, 2014)
Individual evidence
- ↑ results.ittf.link . (accessed July 1, 2018).
- ↑ Youth European Championships (accessed on January 7, 2016)
- ↑ DTS magazine , 2000/3 page 7
- ↑ "Olympic ace in the 'Today' talk: Flag bearer Liu Jia: 'That means more than EM gold' www.heute.at". Accessed August 4, 2016..
- ↑ Martina Emmert: The stroke of luck in Kolbermoor is called Liu Jia ( Memento of the original from May 30, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Article from May 26, 2017 on tischtennis.de (accessed May 26, 2017)
- ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2020/6 page 12
- ↑ http://www.mytischtennis.de/public/panorama/1258/susi-erstmals-mama-die-bilder-mit-baby-anna (accessed on July 27, 2011)
- ↑ Liu Jia results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed June 22, 2014)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Liu Jia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chinese-Austrian table tennis player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 16, 1982 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Beijing , China |