Niu Jianfeng
Niu Jianfeng 
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| Date of birth: | April 3, 1981 |
| Place of birth: | Baoding |
| Size: | 164 cm |
| Weight: | 51 kg |
| Playing hand: | Right handed |
| How to play: | Shakehand |
| Best world ranking : | 2 (Dec. 2004, Feb. 2005, May to Sep. 2005) |
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Niu Jianfeng (born April 3, 1981 in Baoding ) is a Chinese table tennis player who won the Asian Championships several times and the bronze medal in doubles at the 2004 Olympic Games .
Career
Niu Jianfeng's first international success was winning the 1997 Asian Youth Championship individually and with the team. She repeated this success, Asian champion individually and in a team, in 2003 with the adults. In 2005 she reached the semi-finals in singles and the final in doubles with Guo Yue .
From 2001 to 2005 she was nominated four times for world championships . In 2004 she won gold with the Chinese team, in 2003 and 2005 silver in doubles with Guo Yue . In mixed with Qin Zhijian , she reached the semi-finals in 2003.
She also had several successes at the Pro Tour Grand Finals . Here she was first three times, namely in 2002 in doubles with Li Jia and in 2003 in singles and doubles with Guo Yue. She came in second in 2001 and 2004 in singles and in 2004 in doubles with Guo Yue.
A great success was winning the bronze medal in doubles with her regular partner Guo Yue at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.
In the ITTF world rankings , Niu Jianfeng was ranked second in December 2004 and most months of 2005. After 2007 she stopped appearing internationally.
In 2010 she studied at the Beijing Sports University and ran a table tennis school.
Results from the ITTF database
| Association | event | year | place | country | singles | Double | Mixed | team |
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| CHN | Asian Championship ATTU | 2005 | Jeju-do | COR | Semifinals | silver | ||
| CHN | Asian Championship ATTU | 2003 | Bangkok | THA | gold | 1 | ||
| CHN | Asian Games | 2002 | Busan | COR | 2 | |||
| CHN | Asian Championship ATTU (Juniors) | 1997 | Sanagi Goa | IND | gold | 1 | ||
| CHN | Olympic games | 2004 | Athens | GRE | last 16 | bronze | ||
| CHN | Pro tour | 2007 | Toulouse | FRA | last 32 | |||
| CHN | Pro tour | 2007 | Salwa Cup | KUW | Quarter finals | Quarter finals | ||
| CHN | Pro tour | 2007 | Doha | QAT | Semifinals | Quarter finals | ||
| CHN | Pro tour | 2005 | Doha | QAT | Semifinals | gold | ||
| CHN | Pro tour | 2004 | catfish | AUT | gold | silver | ||
| CHN | Pro tour | 2004 | Leipzig | GER | gold | gold | ||
| CHN | Pro tour | 2004 | Kobe | JPN | silver | gold | ||
| CHN | Pro tour | 2004 | Singapore | SIN | Semifinals | gold | ||
| CHN | Pro tour | 2004 | Pyeongchang | COR | silver | last 16 | ||
| CHN | Pro tour | 2004 | Athens | GRE | last 16 | gold | ||
| CHN | Pro tour | 2003 | Malmo | SWE | Semifinals | gold | ||
| CHN | Pro tour | 2003 | Aarhus | THE | last 64 | gold | ||
| CHN | Pro tour | 2003 | Bremen | GER | Semifinals | silver | ||
| CHN | Pro tour | 2003 | Kobe | JPN | Semifinals | gold | ||
| CHN | Pro tour | 2003 | Guangzhou | CHN | Semifinals | Semifinals | ||
| CHN | Pro tour | 2003 | Jeju-Si | COR | Semifinals | gold | ||
| CHN | Pro tour | 2003 | Croatia | HRV | silver | Quarter finals | ||
| CHN | Pro tour | 2002 | Eindhoven | NED | gold | gold | ||
| CHN | Pro tour | 2002 | Magdeburg | GER | Semifinals | gold | ||
| CHN | Pro tour | 2002 | Fort Lauderdale | United States | Semifinals | silver | ||
| CHN | Pro tour | 2002 | Qingdao City | CHN | silver | Quarter finals | ||
| CHN | Pro tour | 2002 | Doha | QAT | Quarter finals | gold | ||
| CHN | Pro tour | 2001 | Rotterdam | NED | Quarter finals | gold | ||
| CHN | Pro tour | 2001 | Fort Lauderdale | United States | gold | gold | ||
| CHN | Pro tour | 2001 | Hainan | CHN | last 16 | gold | ||
| CHN | Pro tour | 2001 | Zagreb | HRV | Semifinals | gold | ||
| CHN | Pro tour | 2000 | Umeå | SWE | Semifinals | gold | ||
| CHN | Pro tour | 2000 | Warsaw | POLE | Quarter finals | Quarter finals | ||
| CHN | Pro tour | 2000 | Chang Chun City | CHN | last 16 | Quarter finals | ||
| CHN | Pro tour | 1999 | Karlskrona | SWE | last 16 | Quarter finals | ||
| CHN | Pro tour | 1999 | Lievin | FRA | last 32 | last 16 | ||
| CHN | Pro tour | 1999 | Guilin | CHN | Quarter finals | Quarter finals | ||
| CHN | Pro tour | 1997 | Lyon | FRA | Quarter finals | Quarter finals | ||
| CHN | Pro tour | 1997 | Squid | SWE | last 16 | Quarter finals | ||
| CHN | Pro tour | 1997 | Linz | AUT | Quarter finals | |||
| CHN | Pro tour | 1997 | Belgrade | YUG | gold | last 16 | ||
| CHN | Pro Tour Grand Finals | 2004 | Beijing | CHN | silver | silver | ||
| CHN | Pro Tour Grand Finals | 2003 | Guangzhou | CHN | gold | gold | ||
| CHN | Pro Tour Grand Finals | 2002 | Stockholm | SWE | Semifinals | gold | ||
| CHN | Pro Tour Grand Finals | 2001 | Hainan | CHN | silver | Quarter finals | ||
| CHN | World Championship | 2005 | Shanghai | CHN | Quarter finals | silver | Quarter finals | |
| CHN | World Championship | 2004 | Doha | QAT | 1 | |||
| CHN | World Championship | 2003 | Paris | FRA | Quarter finals | silver | Semifinals | |
| CHN | World Championship | 2001 | Osaka | JPN | Quarter finals | no participants | no participants | |
| CHN | World cup | 2004 | Hangzhou | CHN | 9-12 space | |||
| CHN | World cup | 2003 | Hong Kong | HKG | silver | |||
| CHN | World cup | 2002 | Singapore | SIN | 5th-8th space |
Individual evidence
- ↑ World rankings since 2001 (accessed on October 3, 2011)
- ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2010/11 p. 7
- ^ Niu Jianfeng results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed October 3, 2011)
Web links
- Biography on ittf.com (accessed October 3, 2011)
- Niu Jianfeng in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original ) (accessed October 3, 2011)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Niu Jianfeng |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | chinese table tennis player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 3, 1981 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Baoding |
