Yo Kan
Yo Kan - Chinese Han Yang - (born October 19, 1978 in Shenyang ) is a Japanese table tennis player born in China . He took part in three world championships and the 2008 Olympic Games .
Career
Yo Kan is right-handed, he plays penholder style.
He achieved his first international successes under the Chinese flag in 1994 when he reached the semi-finals of the Asian Youth Championships in singles. In 1999 he played for four months for the Austrian club SVS Niederösterreich , to which he returned again in 2007.
Since 2006 he has been a member of the Japanese national team.
He took part in the World Championships in 2007 , 2008 and 2009 . He was third with the Japanese team in 2008.
In 2008 he qualified for the Olympic Games , directly via the world rankings. In the individual, he defeated the Russian Alexei Smirnow in the third round and was defeated in the fourth round to the Chinese and later silver medalist Wang Hao . In the team competition he came in fifth.
His best position in the ITTF world rankings was 17th in 2008 (January - April and September - November).
Results from the ITTF database
Association | event | year | place | country | singles | Double | Mixed | team |
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JPN | Asian Championship ATTU | 2007 | Yangzhou | CHN | last 16 | 2 | ||
JPN | Asian Cup | 2008 | Sapporo | JPN | 6th place | |||
CHN | Asian Cup | 1996 | New Delhi | IND | Quarter finals | |||
JPN | Asian Games | 2006 | Doha | QAT | last 16 | |||
CHN | Asian Championship ATTU (Juniors) | 1994 | Joetsu Niigata | JPN | Semifinals | |||
JPN | Olympic games | 2008 | Beijing | CHN | last 16 | 5 | ||
JPN | Pro tour | 2010 | Suzhou | CHN | last 64 | |||
JPN | Pro tour | 2010 | Incheon | COR | last 16 | |||
JPN | Pro tour | 2010 | Berlin | GER | last 64 | |||
JPN | Pro tour | 2009 | Bremen | GER | last 16 | |||
JPN | Pro tour | 2009 | Doha | QAT | last 64 | Semifinals | ||
JPN | Pro tour | 2008 | Warsaw | POLE | Quarter finals | |||
JPN | Pro tour | 2008 | Berlin | GER | last 32 | |||
JPN | Pro tour | 2008 | Singapore | SIN | last 64 | |||
JPN | Pro tour | 2008 | Daejeon | COR | last 16 | |||
JPN | Pro tour | 2008 | Yokohama | JPN | last 16 | 5 | ||
JPN | Pro tour | 2008 | Changchun | CHN | last 16 | 5 | ||
JPN | Pro tour | 2008 | Santiago | CHI | Quarter finals | last 16 | ||
JPN | Pro tour | 2008 | Belo Horizonte | BRA | last 16 | last 16 | ||
JPN | Pro tour | 2007 | Bremen | GER | last 32 | |||
JPN | Pro tour | 2007 | Toulouse | FRA | last 16 | |||
JPN | Pro tour | 2007 | catfish | AUT | last 64 | |||
JPN | Pro tour | 2007 | Nanjing | CHN | Quarter finals | last 16 | ||
JPN | Pro tour | 2007 | Chiba | JPN | last 32 | |||
JPN | Pro tour | 2007 | Santiago | CHI | gold | Quarter finals | ||
JPN | Pro tour | 2007 | Belo Horizonte | BRA | gold | last 16 | ||
JPN | Pro tour | 2007 | Belo Horizonte | BRA | gold | last 16 | ||
JPN | Pro tour | 2007 | Salwa Cup | KUW | last 64 | |||
JPN | Pro tour | 2007 | Doha | QAT | last 64 | |||
JPN | Pro tour | 2006 | Belgrade | SRB | Quarter finals | Quarter finals | ||
JPN | Pro tour | 2006 | Yokohama | JPN | last 64 | |||
JPN | Pro tour | 2006 | Singapore | SIN | last 32 | |||
JPN | Pro Tour Grand Finals | 2007 | Beijing | CHN | last 16 | |||
JPN | World Championship | 2009 | Yokohama | JPN | last 64 | |||
JPN | World Championship | 2008 | Guangzhou | CHN | 3 | |||
JPN | World Championship | 2007 | Zagreb | CRO | last 32 | no participants | last 32 |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ian Marshall: Reasons To Celebrate as Kan Yo Ousts the Number One Seed in Serbia , article from October 20, 2006 on ittf.com ( July 29, 2016 memento in the Internet Archive ) (accessed July 29, 2016)
- ↑ Change from Ryu Seung Min and Kan Yo to SVS Niederösterreich (accessed on July 29, 2016)
- ↑ List of directly qualified participants for OL 2008 ( Memento from August 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on July 29, 2016)
- ↑ World ranking list ( Memento from July 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on July 29, 2016)
- ↑ Yo Kan results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed July 29, 2016)
Web links
- Yo Kan biography on the website of the World Table Tennis Federation ittf.com (accessed July 29, 2016)
- Yo Kan in the Sports-Reference database (archived from the original ) (accessed July 29, 2016)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Yo Kan |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Han Yang (Chinese) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese table tennis player |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 19, 1978 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Shenyang |