Xu Yinsheng

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Xu Yinsheng ( Chinese  徐寅生 , Pinyin Xú Yínshēng , also Hsu Yin-Sheng ; born May 12, 1938 in Shanghai ) is a former Chinese table tennis player . He became world champion four times. Later he was president of the world association ITTF .

In 2010 he was inducted into the ITTF Hall of Fame .

youth

Xu Yinsheng has 10 older siblings. During his school days he came to table tennis, which he practiced with a lot of diligence and ambition until he was finally used in the national team. In Shanghai he studied at the Institute of Physical Culture.

More active

Xu Yinsheng took part in world championships four times. He was four times world champion. In 1961 , 1963 and 1965 he won the title with the team. In 1965 he won gold in doubles with Zhuang Zedong , with which he had already reached the final in 1963. He won bronze in singles in 1963 and in 1959 with the team.

In 1965 he presented in a publication on the thesis that the setting ( attitude ) of the player has the greatest impact on its success. In the 1970s he worked as the head coach for the Chinese Association.

official

In 1977, Xu Yinsheng became President of the Chinese Table Tennis Association CITA. He held this office until February 2009, when he was replaced by Cai Zhenhua . In between he was president of the Asian TT Association (Asian Table Tennis Union).

In 1988 he successfully promoted attempts by penholder players to use the club on both sides to counteract the weakness of the backhand in penholder game.

In the 1990s he took on tasks in the world association ITTF . He became vice president. When the incumbent ITTF President Sven-Olof Hammarlund suddenly died in October 1995 , Xu Yinsheng temporarily took over his office. At the 1997 ITTF Congress, he was elected President for a further two years. During his tenure he campaigned for the introduction of the 40mm ball . In 1999 he was no longer a candidate, and was succeeded by Adham Sharara .

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
CHN  World Championship  1965  Ljubljana  YUG   Quarter finals  gold  no participants  1
CHN  World Championship  1963  Prague  TCH   last 32  silver  no participants  1
CHN  World Championship  1961  Beijing  CHN   Semifinals  Quarter finals  last 32  1
CHN  World Championship  1959  Dortmund  FRG   last 16  Quarter finals  no participants  3

Web links

swell

  • Xu Yinsheng , table tennis magazine , 2009/4 page 7

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ June 12, 1936 is also given as the date of birth [1]
  2. ↑ Hall of Fame ( Memento from August 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on August 4, 2011; PDF; 407 kB)
  3. ↑ Enry James: The Students who would become masters ( Memento from January 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed January 15, 2016; PDF; 123 kB)
  4. ↑ Xu Yinsheng results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed September 8, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Xu, Yinsheng
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hsu, Yin Sheng; 徐寅生 (Chinese); Xú, Yínshēng (Pinyin)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION chinese table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Shanghai