Rong Guotuan
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 |
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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
- Page no longer available , search in web archives: (English)
- Steven Cheung: Remembering Rong Guotuan , translated into English: Chung Lau (English)
Web links
- Portrait (accessed July 12, 2011)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://home.covad.net/~chunglau/021002.htm
- ↑ The Table Tennis Collector, 2008, issue 50, page 25 (PDF )
- ↑ Chronicle of the Tischtennis-Verband Rheinland eV, 1960, page 13
- ^ Rong Guotuan Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed September 9, 2011)
personal data | |
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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 |