Qiao Hong

Qiao Hong ( Chinese  喬 紅  /  乔 红 , Pinyin Qiáo Hóng ; born November 21, 1968 in Wuhan ) is a former Chinese table tennis player and five-time world champion.

Career

Qiao Hong started playing table tennis when she was seven. In 1987 she was invited to the Chinese national team. She was nominated for an international assignment for the first time in 1988: At the International Championships in Moscow she came in second.

Qiao Hong is right-handed, she plays the shakehand style.

successes

Together with Deng Yaping , Qiao Hong formed the world's best doubles for several years.

At the 1989 World Cup in Dortmund, it was only used in individual competitions. Here she won the world championship in singles and doubles. She won further world titles in 1993 and 1995 with the Chinese team and in 1995 in doubles. She won silver four times at world championships: in singles in 1995, in doubles in 1991 and 1993 and with the team in 1991.

Qiao Hong participated in the 1992 and 1996 Olympics. Both times she won gold in doubles alongside Deng Yaping. In 1992 she won silver and in 1996 bronze.

End of the international career

In 1996 she resigned from international competitive sport. That year she moved to Japan and joined the Panasonic Electric Co. Ltd. as a player-coach. In 2000 she returned to China and began studying sports education. From 2003 to 2005 she coached the Chinese national team. In 2005 she applied unsuccessfully for the post of head coach of the women's team.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
CHN	Asian Championship ATTU	1994	Tianjin	CHN	silver	silver	Semifinals	1
CHN	Asian Championship ATTU	1990	Kuala Lumpur	MAS	gold	gold
CHN	Asian Cup	1994	Shanghai	CHN	1
CHN	Asian Cup	1993	Shunde	CHN	2
CHN	Asian Cup	1989	Beijing	CHN	2
CHN	Asian Games	1994	Hiroshima	JPN	Semifinals	silver		1
CHN	Asian Games	1990	Beijing	CHN	Semifinals	silver		1
CHN	Olympic games	1996	Atlanta	United States	bronze	gold
CHN	Olympic games	1992	Barcelona	ESP	silver	gold
CHN	Pro tour	1996	Kitaku-Shu	JPN	gold	Quarter finals
CHN	Pro tour	1996	Xi'an	CHN	silver	Semifinals
CHN	World Championship	1995	Tianjin	CHN	silver	gold	no participants	1
CHN	World Championship	1993	Gothenburg	SWE	last 32	silver	no participants	1
CHN	World Championship	1991	Chiba City	JPN	Semifinals	silver	last 128	2
CHN	World Championship	1989	Dortmund	FRG	gold	gold	last 16
CHN	World Doubles Cup	1992	Las Vegas	United States		gold
CHN	WTC World Team Cup	1995	Atlanta	United States				1
CHN	WTC World Team Cup	1991	Barcelona	ESP				1
CHN	WTC World Team Cup	1990	Hokkaido, Aomori, Niig	JPN				1

literature

• Gerlinde Glatzer-Bittner : Before Nobody, now Superstar , DTS magazine , 1989/4 p. 34
• Zdenko Uzorinac : Qiao Hong: quick legs, bright head - irresistibly good , DTS magazine , 1993/3, pp. 34–36

Web links

• Profile
• Entry in the French database sportquick.com (accessed on September 17, 2012)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2005/12 p. 30
2. ↑ Qiao Hong Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed September 14, 2011)