Shi Zhihao
Shi Zhihao ( Chinese 施 之 皓 ; born September 26, 1959 in Shanghai ) is a Chinese table tennis player and official. In 1981 he became world champion in team competition.
Career
Shi Zhihao participated in the 1979 and 1981 World Championships . In 1981 he reached the quarter-finals in singles and was world champion with the Chinese team. He won three medals at the Asian Championships in 1980. He won gold in singles and with the team, and he reached the final in doubles with Cai Zhenhua .
In the ITTF world rankings Shi Zhihao finished seventh in June 1981.
In 1984 he ended his career as a competitive athlete. From 1987 to 1996 he worked as a player-coach in Germany. Then he worked in China as a trainer. As an assistant coach, he coached the women's national team from 1998 and the men from 2000, in order to replace the women's head coach Lu Yuansheng in 2005 . In 2012 he finished this work and in 2013 became dean of the Chinese table tennis academy at the Shanghai Sports University, which was newly created in 2010 .
Time in Germany
In 1987 Shi Zhihao came to Germany and joined the Bundesliga club TTC Zugbrücke Grenzau . With his men's team, he won the European Cup in 1988 . Two years later he moved to the regional league at Post SV Augsburg . From 1992 to 1996 he worked as a trainer at Werder Bremen . Then he returned to China.
official
In 2013 Shi Zhihao was elected Vice President of the world association ITTF .
Private
Shi Zhihao is married to the table tennis player Cao Yanhua . With her he has a son. He currently lives in Beijing.
Results from the ITTF database
Association | event | year | place | country | singles | Double | Mixed | team |
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CHN | Asian Championship ATTU | 1980 | Calcutta | IND | gold | silver | 1 | |
CHN | World Championship | 1981 | Novi Sad | YUG | Quarter finals | last 32 | last 32 | 1 |
CHN | World Championship | 1979 | Pyongyang | PRK | last 16 | no participants | last 64 | |
CHN | World cup | 1981 | Kuala Lumpur | MAS | 4th |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Historical world rankings (accessed on August 11, 2011; PDF; 148 kB)
- ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2005/12 p. 30
- ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2012/12 p. 43
- ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2013/4 p. 7
- ↑ a b Journal DTS , 1987/6 p. 13
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1989/7 p. 20
- ↑ a b magazine tischtennis , 2006/5 p. 28
- ↑ SH: Elections at the World Cup in Paris: Sharara President again, Weikert Vice ( Memento of the original from June 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on May 17, 2013)
- ↑ Shi Zhihao results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed September 14, 2011)
Web links
- Chinese table tennis players (accessed August 11, 2011)
- Brief portrait on 2008teamchina.olympic.cn (accessed on August 11, 2011)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Shi, Zhihao |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 施 之 皓 (Chinese) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | chinese table tennis player and official |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 26, 1959 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Shanghai |