Zhang Xielin

Zhang Xielin - also Chang Shih-lin (* 1940 ) is a former Chinese table tennis player and trainer with the greatest success in the 1960s and 1970s. He is a four-time world champion.

Career

Zhang Xielin was a defender. From 1961 to 1973 he took part in five world championships . He won a gold medal in doubles in Prague in 1963 by asserting himself with Wang Zhiliang in the final against the Chinese Zhuang Zedong / Xu Yinsheng . He won another title in 1971 in mixed with Lin Huiqing . He was also world champion with the Chinese men's team in 1963 and 1965 . In singles, he reached the semi-finals in 1961 and 1963, and in 1965 he reached the final in doubles with Wang Zhiliang and in mixed with Lin Huiqing.

His fight against Eberhard Schöler in the quarter-finals of the 1965 World Cup caused a sensation in professional circles. After almost two hours he lost to the German in a time game in the fifth set with 25:27 (see Eberhard Schöler # 1965 World Cup ). In 1971 he ended his career as a competitive athlete.

In the ITTF world rankings , he was ranked third in 1964. Because of his success, he was inducted into the ITTF Hall of Fame in 2001.

Trainer and functionary

After the end of his active career, Zhang Xielin worked as a coach of the Chinese women's national team before he was replaced by Lu Yuansheng in 1995 . In 1979 he became Vice President of the Chinese Table Tennis Association.

He lives in Beijing.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
CHN	World Championship	1973	Sarajevo	YUG	no participants	no participants	last 16
CHN	World Championship	1971	Nagoya	JPN	no participants	no participants	gold
CHN	World Championship	1965	Ljubljana	YUG	Quarter finals	silver	silver	1
CHN	World Championship	1963	Prague	TCH	Semifinals	gold	Quarter finals	1
CHN	World Championship	1961	Beijing	CHN	Semifinals	last 64	last 64

Individual evidence

1. ↑ table tennis show (Austrian magazine) 1965/4 p. 7
2. ↑ Historical world rankings ( memento of March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on July 20, 2011; PDF; 148 kB)
3. ^ Hall of Fame ( Memento of August 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed July 20, 2011)
4. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2005/12 p. 30 + DTS 2009/12 p. 36
5. ↑ ITTF statistics ( memento from December 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on September 4, 2011)

Web links

• Article with picture (accessed July 20, 2011)
• Biography (accessed August 7, 2011)

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