Liu Wei (table tennis player)

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Liu Wei (born November 27, 1969 in Shandong ) is a Chinese table tennis player . She won five gold medals at world championships in the 1990s .

Career

From 1989 to 1995, Liu Wei was nominated four times for world championships. She won gold in doubles with Qiao Yunping in 1993 and silver in 1995 behind Deng Yaping / Hong Qiao . In 1995 she was also third in the individual. In mixed she became world champion in 1991 , 1993 and 1995 with Wang Tao . It was the first time that a couple won the mixed competition three times in a row. She won another gold medal in 1995 with the Chinese women's team.

In 1996, Liu Wei qualified for the Summer Olympics , where she won silver in doubles with Qiao Yunping .

After the Olympic Games, Liu Wei retired from competitive sports. She played another three years in the Japanese league at Sakura Bank Club . In 1999 she returned to China and began studying. In 2003 she founded the Peking University Founder Table Tennis Club . The aim of this is to combine studies and competitive sports.

Due to her success, she was inducted into the ITTF Hall of Fame by the world association ITTF .

Namesake

There is also a male Chinese table tennis player named Liu Wei . This was committed in the 1995/96 season by the German district division TG Donzdorf (Baden-Württemberg) for a few games in order to secure promotion to the state league.

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
CHN  Asian Championship ATTU  1994  Tianjin  CHN   Semifinals  gold  silver  1
CHN  Asian Championship ATTU  1990  Kuala Lumpur  MAS   silver  silver     
CHN  Asian Cup  1994  Shanghai  CHN   Quarter finals       
CHN  Asian Cup  1993  Shunde  CHN   1      
CHN  Asian Cup  1991  Dhaka  BAN   1      
CHN  Asian Games  1994  Hiroshima  JPN     gold  Quarter finals  1
CHN  Asian Championship ATTU (Juniors)  1986  Nagoya  JPN       gold  1
CHN  Olympic games  1996  Atlanta  United States   4th  silver     
CHN  Pro tour  1996  Xi'an  CHN   Quarter finals  Semifinals     
CHN  World Championship  1995  Tianjin  CHN   Semifinals  silver  gold  1
CHN  World Championship  1993  Gothenburg  SWE   no participants  gold  gold   
CHN  World Championship  1991  Chiba City  JPN   Quarter finals  Semifinals  gold   
CHN  World Championship  1989  Dortmund  FRG   last 64  Semifinals  last 16  1
CHN  WTC World Team Cup  1995  Atlanta  United States         1
CHN  WTC World Team Cup  1991  Barcelona  ESP         1

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ There are different details for the date of birth: August 18, 1968 Entry in the French database sportquick.com (accessed on September 17, 2012), October 27, 1969 Liu Wei in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
  2. ↑ http://www.ittf.com/museum/Hof/HoF.html
  3. ↑ DTS magazine , 1996/9 regional south p. 12
  4. ↑ Liu Wei (table tennis player) Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 11, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Liu Wei
BRIEF DESCRIPTION chinese table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Shandong
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, Wei is the first name.