Yan Sen

Yan Sen ( Chinese  閻森  /  阎森 , Pinyin Yán Sēn ; born August 16, 1975 in Jiangsu ) is a Chinese table tennis player . He was twice world champion in doubles, Asian champion in mixed and Olympic champion in doubles.

Career

Yan Sen started playing table tennis at the age of six. He was 1993 youth world champion in singles.

He achieved his greatest successes in doubles with his compatriot Wang Liqin , with whom he usually appeared. He took part in five world championships from 1997 to 2005 . He came in 1999 in the double final, which was lost to Kong Linghui / Liu Guoliang . At the next World Championships in 2001 and 2003 , he won the title. He won bronze in 1997 in singles and in 2005 in doubles and mixed with Guo Yan .

He qualified six times for participation in the Grand Finals through successes in the ITTF Pro Tour tournaments . Here he was first in doubles in 1996, 1998 and 2000. He was Asian champion in 1998 and 2000 with the Chinese team and in 2000 in mixed with Yang Ying . In 2000 he became a double Olympic champion.

In the ITTF world rankings , he finished 25th in January 2001.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
CHN	Asian Championship ATTU	2000	Doha	QAT	Quarter finals	Semifinals	gold	1
CHN	Asian Championship ATTU	1998	Osaka	JPN	Semifinals	Semifinals		1
CHN	Asian Games	2002	Busan	COR		Semifinals		1
CHN	Asian Games	1998	Bangkok	THA		Quarter finals		1
CHN	Olympic games	2000	Sydney	OUT	no participants	gold
CHN	Pro tour	2004	Kobe	JPN	last 32	gold
CHN	Pro tour	2004	Wuxi	CHN	last 16	Semifinals
CHN	Pro tour	2003	Guangzhou	CHN	last 32	Semifinals
CHN	Pro tour	2003	Jeju-Si	COR	last 16	Quarter finals
CHN	Pro tour	2002	Eindhoven	NED	last 32	silver
CHN	Pro tour	2002	Magdeburg	GER	last 32	Semifinals
CHN	Pro tour	2002	Qingdao City	CHN	last 32	silver
CHN	Pro tour	2002	Doha	QAT	last 32	gold
CHN	Pro tour	2001	Skovde	SWE	Quarter finals	gold
CHN	Pro tour	2001	Hainan	CHN	last 16	gold
CHN	Pro tour	2000	Rio de Janeiro	BRA	last 16	silver
CHN	Pro tour	2000	Fort Lauderdale	United States	last 16	silver
CHN	Pro tour	2000	Kobe City	JPN	last 32	last 16
CHN	Pro tour	2000	Chang Chun City	CHN	last 32	gold
CHN	Pro tour	1999	Karlskrona	SWE	last 16	Semifinals
CHN	Pro tour	1999	Lievin	FRA	last 16	Semifinals
CHN	Pro tour	1999	Linz / Wels	AUT	last 16	Semifinals
CHN	Pro tour	1999	Bremen	GER	last 32	Semifinals
CHN	Pro tour	1999	Kobe City	JPN	last 16	Quarter finals
CHN	Pro tour	1999	Guilin	CHN	last 16	gold
CHN	Pro tour	1998	Courmayeur	ITA	Semifinals	Semifinals
CHN	Pro tour	1998	Beirut	LIB	Semifinals	Semifinals
CHN	Pro tour	1998	Ji 'Nan City	CHN	Semifinals	silver
CHN	Pro tour	1998	Melbourne	OUT	last 16	silver
CHN	Pro tour	1998	Wakayama	JPN	Quarter finals	Semifinals
CHN	Pro tour	1998	Kota Kinabalu	MAS	last 16	silver
CHN	Pro tour	1998	Doha	QAT	Semifinals	gold
CHN	Pro tour	1997	Lyon	FRA	last 16	Quarter finals
CHN	Pro tour	1997	Squid	SWE	silver	silver
CHN	Pro tour	1997	Linz	AUT	last 32	Semifinals
CHN	Pro tour	1997	Belgrade	YUG	Semifinals	gold
CHN	Pro tour	1997	Zhuhai	CHN	last 32	silver
CHN	Pro tour	1997	Chiba	JPN	Semifinals	gold
CHN	Pro tour	1997	Ipoh	MAS	Quarter finals	gold
CHN	Pro tour	1997	Melbourne	OUT	Semifinals	gold
CHN	Pro tour	1997	Fort Lauderdale	United States	Quarter finals	Quarter finals
CHN	Pro tour	1997	Rio de Janeiro	BRA	last 32	silver
CHN	Pro tour	1996	Boras	SWE	Quarter finals	Quarter finals
CHN	Pro tour	1996	Lyon	FRA		gold
CHN	Pro Tour Grand Finals	2001	Hainan	CHN		Quarter finals
CHN	Pro Tour Grand Finals	2000	Kobe City	JPN		gold
CHN	Pro Tour Grand Finals	1999	Sydney	OUT		Semifinals
CHN	Pro Tour Grand Finals	1998	Paris	FRA	Quarter finals	gold
CHN	Pro Tour Grand Finals	1997	Hong Kong	HKG	last 16	Semifinals
CHN	Pro Tour Grand Finals	1996	Tian Jin	CHN		gold
CHN	World Championship	2005	Shanghai	CHN		Semifinals	Semifinals
CHN	World Championship	2003	Paris	FRA		gold	Quarter finals
CHN	World Championship	2001	Osaka	JPN	last 64	gold	Quarter finals
CHN	World Championship	1999	Eindhoven	NED	last 16	silver	Quarter finals
CHN	World Championship	1997	Manchester	CLOSELY	Semifinals	Quarter finals	last 16

Individual evidence

1. ↑ NOEETV-Magazin (Austria) 1993/2 p. 4
2. ↑ World ranking list since 2001 ( Memento from June 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on August 14, 2011)
3. ^ ITTF statistics ( Memento from January 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on September 17, 2011)

Web links

• Portrait on chinadaily (accessed August 14, 2011)

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