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
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

1. ↑ 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)
2. ↑ Change from Ryu Seung Min and Kan Yo to SVS Niederösterreich (accessed on July 29, 2016)
3. ↑ List of directly qualified participants for OL 2008 ( Memento from August 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on July 29, 2016)
4. ↑ World ranking list ( Memento from July 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on July 29, 2016)
5. ↑ 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)