Wang Xiaoming (table tennis player)

Wang Xiaoming (born June 14, 1963 in Yibin ( Sichuan Province )) is a French table tennis player of Chinese descent. She is European mixed champion. She is holding the bat in shakehand style.

Career

In China, Wang Xiaoming was not one of the absolute top table tennis players, she was ranked 16th in the national ranking in 1982. That year she moved to France and joined the AC Boulogne-Billancourt club. In July 1987, she received French citizenship. From then on she was eligible to play for the French national team.

successes

She was nominated for world championships four times : 1987, 1989, 1991 and 1995. In 1991 she won bronze with the French team. At the 1989 World Cup , she was the only European to reach the quarter-finals.

Between 1988 and 1994 she took part in all four European championships . She played in mixed with Jean-Philippe Gatien . With him she won the title in 1990, in 1992 she came in second.

Private

Wang Xiaoming's mother was a Chinese teacher and her father was a math professor. He died during the Cultural Revolution in the late 1960s. The family includes her sister, Yu Mei, who is three years older than her. In 1991, Wang Xiaoming married a French sports journalist. In 1994 she became a mother.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
FRA	European Championship	1994	Birmingham	CLOSELY	Quarter finals	Quarter finals	Quarter finals
FRA	European Championship	1992	Stuttgart	GER			silver
FRA	European Championship	1990	Gothenburg	SWE	last 16	Semifinals	gold
FRA	European Championship	1988	Paris	FRA			Quarter finals
FRA	EURO TOP12	1996	Charleroi	BEL	11
FRA	EURO TOP12	1995	Dijon	FRA	11
FRA	EURO TOP12	1991	Hertogenbosch	NED	7th
FRA	EURO TOP12	1990	Hanover	FRG	3
FRA	EURO TOP12	1989	Charleroi	BEL	6th
FRA	Mediterranean Games	1991	Athens	GRE	silver	silver
FRA	Mediterranean Games	1987	Latakia	SYR	gold	gold
FRA	Olympic games	1996	Atlanta	United States	immediately excluded	immediately excluded
FRA	Olympic games	1992	Barcelona	ESP	immediately excluded	immediately excluded
FRA	World Championship	1995	Tianjin	CHN	last 64	last 32	no participants	13
FRA	World Championship	1991	Chiba City	JPN	last 64	last 16	Quarter finals	3
FRA	World Championship	1989	Dortmund	FRG	Quarter finals	Quarter finals	last 128	17th
FRA	World Championship	1987	New Delhi	IND	no participants	no participants	no participants	16
FRA	World Doubles Cup	1990	Seoul	COR		Quarter finals
FRA	WTC World Team Cup	1994	Nimes	FRA				5
FRA	WTC World Team Cup	1991	Barcelona	ESP				5

swell

• Christoph Wyrzykowski: A Chinese woman in Paris: A star rises , DTS magazine , 1987/9 page 30

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Table Tennis News - Official Journal of the English Table Tennis Association, November 1991, page 4 (accessed August 14, 2014)
2. ↑ Wang Xiaoming (table tennis player) Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed September 17, 2011)

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Wang is the family name here, Xiaoming meaning morning star is the first name.