Yang Lei (table tennis player)

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Yang Lei Table tennis player
Nation: GermanyGermany Germany
Date of birth: May 6, 1977
Clubs as active:
1997-1999 GermanyGermany DJK Offenburg (2nd BL)
1999-2002 GermanyGermany WTTF Ramstein
2002-2005 GermanyGermany TSV Graefelfing (1st BL)
2005-2006 GermanyGermany TSV Eintracht Felsberg (2nd BL)
2008-2014 GermanyGermany ASV Grünwettersbach
2014 - ???? GermanyGermany SV Brackwede

Yang Lei (born May 6, 1977 in China ) is a German table tennis player and trainer of Chinese descent. He finished second in the individual at the 2008 German championship .

Career

In 1997 Yang Lei moved from Beijing to Germany. Since then he has played for several German clubs. At the beginning of 2007 he received German citizenship and was therefore entitled to take part in German championships .

He caused a sensation at the German championship in 2008 when he won as a top division player in an individual competition against Jörg Roßkopf , Nico Christ and Timo Boll , who was fifth in the world rankings and eight times German champion at the time. In the final he was defeated by Torben Wosik 3: 4 despite his own match point and was thus second.

At the German Championship in 2012 , he reached the semi-finals in doubles with Philipp Floritz .

In 2008 Yang Lei coached the women’s team at MTV Tostedt . Since 2018 he has been working as a trainer at TTC Schwalbe Bergneustadt .

Private

Yang Lei lives in the Knittkuhl district of Düsseldorf and has been married to the German table tennis player Han Ying, who also comes from China, since 2006

literature

  • Rahul Nelson: I just wanted some fun , table tennis magazine , 2008/4 page 21

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Change from Beijing to Offenburg: DTS magazine , 1997/8 page 21
  2. ^ Change from Offenburg to Ramstein: DTS magazine , 1999/8 page 25
  3. Jump from Ramstein to Graefelfing: DTS magazine , 2002/6 page 15 + 2002/8 page 42
  4. ↑ Bundesliga magazine 2005/06, page 70
  5. ↑ change from ???? according to Grünwettersbach: magazine tischtennis , 2008/2 regional south page 2
  6. ↑ Change from Grünwettersbach to Brackwede: Zeitschrift tischtennis , 2014/9 page 26
  7. ↑ Dieter Gömann: Odyssey through Europe ends with victory in Bad Dribur . In: Tischtennis-Verband Niedersachsen (Ed.): Tischtennis Magazin . No. 10 , 2008, p. 6 ( Download [PDF; 6.1 MB ; accessed on March 29, 2020]).
  8. ↑ Susanne Heuing: Brackweder Glücksfall - The Chinese Lei Yang strengthens the regional league and takes care of the youth , article from August 29, 2014 in the Neue Westfälische, (accessed on March 29, 2020)
personal data
SURNAME Yang Lei
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH People's Republic of China