Rong Guotuan

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Rong Guotuan 1959

Jung Kuo-Tuan ( Chinese  容 國 團  /  容 国 团 , Pinyin Róng Guótuán , also Rong Guotuan ; born August 10, 1937 in Zhuhai ; † June 20, 1968 ) was a Chinese table tennis player . In 1959 he was the first Chinese world champion in men's singles in Dortmund, and in 1961 in Beijing he became world champion with the team.

When he fell into the hands of the Red Guards in the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution , he was convicted of espionage. He escaped humiliation, torture and re-education methods by suicide in 1968.

Career

Jung Kuo-Tuan's family lived in Hong Kong. When Japan occupied Hong Kong in 1941, the family moved to the Chinese city of Zhuhai . In 1945 she returned to Hong Kong. Jung Kuo-Tuan started table tennis at the age of seven. When his father became unemployed, Jung Kuo-Tuan left school to earn money himself. He also made progress in table tennis. At the Hong Kong Championships in 1957, he won the title in singles, doubles and team competition. In the same year he defeated the Japanese world champion Ichiro Ogimura .

World championships

At the table tennis world championship in 1959 in Dortmund, Jung Kuo-Tuan surprisingly won the men's singles title when he beat the Hungarian Ferenc Sidó in the final and also left the favored Japanese around Ichirō Ogimura and Toshiaki Tanaka behind. He was the first athlete from China to win a world title.

Two years later, he won the men's team for China for the first time in Beijing alongside Zhuang Zedong and Li Furong . In 1960 he was number one in the world rankings .

Activity as a trainer

Jung Kuo-Tuan became the coach of the Chinese women's national team in 1964. Under his leadership, this team won the women's title for China for the first time in Ljubljana in 1965 against the Japanese women, who had dominated the world championships from 1957 to 1963.

Private

Jung Kuo-Tuan was married with one daughter.

Honor

Rong Guotuan is a bronze statue in his hometown of Zhuhai.

A red machine advertising stamp was used by the post office in Yueyang / People's Republic of China on April 5, 2009. Text: 50th anniversary of the victory in the men's table tennis singles of Jung Kuo-Tuan at the table tennis world championship 1959 in Dortmund. Illustration: table tennis player playing a ball.

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
CHN  World Championship  1963  Prague  TCH   last 64  last 16  no participants 
CHN  World Championship  1961  Beijing  CHN   last 32  Quarter finals  no participants  1
CHN  World Championship  1959  Dortmund  FRG   gold  Quarter finals  no participants  3

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://home.covad.net/~chunglau/021002.htm
  2. ↑ The Table Tennis Collector, 2008, issue 50, page 25 (PDF )
  3. ↑ Chronicle of the Tischtennis-Verband Rheinland eV, 1960, page 13
  4. ^ Rong Guotuan Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed September 9, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Rong Guotuan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jung Kuo-Tuan; 容 国 團 (Chinese); 容 国 团 (Chinese); Róng Guótuán (Pinyin)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION chinese table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Zhuhai
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 1968

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

is the first name.