Asian Cup Table Tennis Tournament - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The Asian Cup Table Tennis Tournament is an annual table tennis

Table tennis

Table tennis, also known as ping-pong, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight, hollow ball back and forth using table tennis rackets. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net...

tournament held by Asian Table Tennis Union

Asian Table Tennis Union

The Asian Table Tennis Union is an Asian table tennis governing body formed on May 7, 1972, and recognized by International Table Tennis Federation in 1975...

(ATTU). The 1st edition of the Asian Cup was held in 1983, including singles events of both Men's and Women's.

Results

Year City		Winner	Runner-up	3rd Place		Winner	Runner-up	3rd Place
Year City		Men's Singles				Women's Singles

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Ma Long

Ma Long is a male table tennis player. He is now ranked 1° as of October, 2011 in the International Table Tennis Federation .- Equipment :...

Xu Xin

Xu Xin is a Chinese table tennis player.-Equipment:He uses a blade Stiga Offensive Wood NCT, and in his forehand a Hurricane III and a Stiga Boost TX in his backhand.-Career records:Singles...

Kaii Yoshida

Kaii Yoshida is a China-born Japanese table tennis player who is ranked among the top fifty athletes in his sport. Kaii was spotted by a Japanese Coach in 1997...

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Guo Yan

Guo Yan is a female Chinese table tennis player. Two-time winner of World Cup in 2006 and 2010. She is currently ranked 2nd in ITTF world ranking as of February, 2011.-Career records:Singles...

Jiang Huajun

Jiang Huajun is a table tennis player from Hong Kong, China.-Career records:Singles *World Championships: Round of 16 .*World Cup appearances: 4. Record: runner-up ....

Guo Yue

Guo Yue is a Chinese table tennis player and the 2007 women's world champion.As of August 2011, she is ranked 5th in the ITTF Women's World ranking....

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Guangzhou

Guangzhou

Guangzhou , known historically as Canton or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of the Guangdong province in the People's Republic of China. Located in southern China on the Pearl River, about north-northwest of Hong Kong, Guangzhou is a key national transportation hub and trading port...

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Zhang Jike

Zhang Jike is a Chinese table tennis player.Zhang Jike is the reigning World Champion and World Cup winner in singles. Should he win the Olympic gold medal in singles, he will be the fourth male player in the history of table tennis to achieve a career grand slam.- Equipment :Zhang Jike currently...

Gao Ning

Gao Ning is a male Table Tennis player from Singapore. He is considered Singapore's best male player with a world ranking of 16 as of May, 2011...

Xu Xin

Xu Xin is a Chinese table tennis player.-Equipment:He uses a blade Stiga Offensive Wood NCT, and in his forehand a Hurricane III and a Stiga Boost TX in his backhand.-Career records:Singles...

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Liu Shiwen

Liu Shiwen is a Chinese table tennis player. Winner of World Cup 2009, she is currently ranked 6th in ITTF World ranking as of July 2011.- Equipment :...

Ding Ning

Ding Ning is a Chinese female table tennis player. Winner of the World Championships in 2011.-Career records:Singles *World Championships: winner .*World Cup: winner ....

Feng Tianwei

Feng Tianwei is a Singaporean table tennis player, ranked sixth in the world as a singles player as of April 2011. Born in China, she began training in Singapore in March 2007 and commenced her international career in competitive table tennis the following month...

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Hangzhou

Hangzhou

Hangzhou , formerly transliterated as Hangchow, is the capital and largest city of Zhejiang Province in Eastern China. Governed as a sub-provincial city, and as of 2010, its entire administrative division or prefecture had a registered population of 8.7 million people...

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Ma Long

Ma Long is a male table tennis player. He is now ranked 1° as of October, 2011 in the International Table Tennis Federation .- Equipment :...

Wang Hao

Wang Hao (table tennis)

Wáng Hào is a Chinese table tennis player. He became the World Champion in Men's Singles in Yokohama, Japan in May 2009, defeating 3-time World Champion Wang Liqin 4-0. Other notable accomplishments are the 3-time World Cup Champion in 2007, 2008 and 2010, Singles Silver medalist at the 2004...

Zhang Jike

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Guo Yue

Guo Yue is a Chinese table tennis player and the 2007 women's world champion.As of August 2011, she is ranked 5th in the ITTF Women's World ranking....

Liu Shiwen

Liu Shiwen is a Chinese table tennis player. Winner of World Cup 2009, she is currently ranked 6th in ITTF World ranking as of July 2011.- Equipment :...

Ding Ning

Ding Ning is a Chinese female table tennis player. Winner of the World Championships in 2011.-Career records:Singles *World Championships: winner .*World Cup: winner ....

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Sapporo
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Ma Long

Ma Long is a male table tennis player. He is now ranked 1° as of October, 2011 in the International Table Tennis Federation .- Equipment :...

Chen Qi
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Gao Ning

Gao Ning is a male Table Tennis player from Singapore. He is considered Singapore's best male player with a world ranking of 16 as of May, 2011...

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Guo Yue

Guo Yue is a Chinese table tennis player and the 2007 women's world champion.As of August 2011, she is ranked 5th in the ITTF Women's World ranking....

Feng Tianwei

Li Jiawei
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|2007
Hanoi

Hanoi

Hanoi , is the capital of Vietnam and the country's second largest city. Its population in 2009 was estimated at 2.6 million for urban districts, 6.5 million for the metropolitan jurisdiction. From 1010 until 1802, it was the most important political centre of Vietnam...

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Gao Ning

Gao Ning is a male Table Tennis player from Singapore. He is considered Singapore's best male player with a world ranking of 16 as of May, 2011...

Kim Jung-Hoon

Kim Jung-Hoon is a South Korean football player who since 2008 has played for Daejeon Citizen.-References:*...

Jun Mizutani

Jun Mizutani is a male Japanese table tennis player. He became the youngest Japanese national champion at the age of 17...

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Jiang Huajun

Jiang Huajun is a table tennis player from Hong Kong, China.-Career records:Singles *World Championships: Round of 16 .*World Cup appearances: 4. Record: runner-up ....

Wang Yuegu

Wang Yuegu is a China-born Singaporean table tennis player who is ranked among the top ten players in the world. Wang made her inaugural appearance as a Singaporean on the International Table Tennis Federation Pro Tour in June 2005 at the Volkswagen Korean Open in Suncheon, South Korea, where she...

Kasumi Ishikawa

is a female Japanese table tennis player. Since 2007, she has won the All Japan Table Tennis Championships - female junior division four years in a row. In 2011, she won the national singles title at the age of 17...

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|2006
Kobe

Kobe

, pronounced , is the fifth-largest city in Japan and is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture on the southern side of the main island of Honshū, approximately west of Osaka...

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Wang Hao

Wang Hao (table tennis)

Chen Qi
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Chiang Peng-Lung

Chiang Peng-Lung is a Taiwanese professional table tennis player.-Career highlights:Singles *Olympics: round of 16 .*World Championships: SF .*World Cup appearances: 6. Record: 4th ....

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Wang Nan
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Li Jiawei
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Li Nan

Li Nan is a former professional basketball player from the People's Republic of China. Before his retirement in 2009, he played for the Bayi Rockets, a Chinese Basketball Association team based in Ningbo...

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|2005
New Delhi

New Delhi

New Delhi is the capital city of India. It serves as the centre of the Government of India and the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi. New Delhi is situated within the metropolis of Delhi. It is one of the nine districts of Delhi Union Territory. The total area of the city is...

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Wang Hao

Wang Hao (table tennis)

Hao Shuai

Hao Shuai is a Chinese table tennis player.-Career records:Singles *World Championships: QF .*Pro Tour winner : Serbian Open 2007. China Open 2008. Slovenian Open 2009. Runner-up : Malaysia Open 2003. China , Korea Open 2009.*Pro Tour Grand Finals appearances: 3...

Li Ching

Li Ching is a table tennis player from Hong Kong, China. He is best known for the joint silver medal he won for Hong Kong at the Athens Olympic in 2004.-Career:...

Yang Zi

Yang Zi is a table tennis player representing Singapore.Yang Zi began his table tennis in 2004 when he first participated in the ITTF Pro Tour. He has represented Singapore in many major events such as 15th Asian Games, 18th Commonwealth Games and 23rd SEA Games...

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Guo Yan

Guo Yan is a female Chinese table tennis player. Two-time winner of World Cup in 2006 and 2010. She is currently ranked 2nd in ITTF world ranking as of February, 2011.-Career records:Singles...

Li Xiaoxia

Li Xiaoxia is a Chinese table tennis professional.She trains in the Jiangsu Wuxi Shanhe Club in Wuxi, China. Her trainer is Li Sun, who is also the mentor of Olympic gold medal winner Zhang Yining. It is expected that Li Xiaoxia will become one of the most valuable players of Team China in the...

Tie Yana

Zhang Rui

Zhang Rui is a table tennis player from Hong Kong, China who won a silver medals at the 2006 Asian Games in the doubles competition.-External links:*...

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Mahshahr

Mahshahr

Bandar-e Mahshahr is a city in and the capital of Mahshahr County, Khuzestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 109,927, in 24,110 families....

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Kitakyushu (W)
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Cheung Yuk
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Xu Hui
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Hou Yingchao
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Tie Yana
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Ai Fukuhara

is a Japanese table tennis player sponsored by All Nippon Airways.-Table tennis career:Fukuhara began playing at the age of 3 and became a professional at age 10. The following year, she became the youngest player ever to become a member of the Japanese national team. Because of her age, she has...

Li Jiawei
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|2003
Kitakyushu (M)
Tehran

Tehran

Tehran , sometimes spelled Teheran, is the capital of Iran and Tehran Province. With an estimated population of 8,429,807; it is also Iran's largest urban area and city, one of the largest cities in Western Asia, and is the world's 19th largest city.In the 20th century, Tehran was subject to...

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Ye Ruoting
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Jong Kwan-Hoyk
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Zhang Yang
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Fan Ying

Fan Ying is a Chinese table tennis player.-Career records:Singles *World Championships: round of 16 .*Pro Tour winner : Polish Open 2009...

Jiang Huajun

Jiang Huajun is a table tennis player from Hong Kong, China.-Career records:Singles *World Championships: Round of 16 .*World Cup appearances: 4. Record: runner-up ....

Tie Yana
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|2000
Mumbai

Mumbai

Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...

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Chan Tianyuan
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Hao Shuai

Leung Chu Yan

Chetan Baboor

Chetan Baboor is an Indian international Table Tennis champion and winner of the Arjuna Award for 1997 - an award recognizing outstanding achievement in sports in India. He belongs to the Babooru Kamme community of Holenarasipura, Karnataka...

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Tang Yuan
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Guo Yue

Guo Yue is a Chinese table tennis player and the 2007 women's world champion.As of August 2011, she is ranked 5th in the ITTF Women's World ranking....

Lao Sui Fei

Zhang Xueling

Zhang Xueling is a Singaporean table tennis player.Zhang started playing table tennis at the age of 6 and made her first international appearance in 1999...

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Pune

Pune

Pune , is the eighth largest metropolis in India, the second largest in the state of Maharashtra after Mumbai, and the largest city in the Western Ghats. Once the centre of power of the Maratha Empire, it is situated 560 metres above sea level on the Deccan plateau at the confluence of the Mula ...

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Guo Keli
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Chetan Baboor

Lin Zhigang
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WANG Chen

Wang Chen (table tennis)

Wang Chen is a female table tennis player from the United States of America.Born in Shanghai, China she moved to America in 2000 and currently resides in New York City. It was in New York City that she met her landlord who began to sponsor her in tournaments.She competed at the 2008 Summer...

Kim Boon-Sik
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Miyoko Takahashi
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|1996
New Delhi

New Delhi

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Ma Lin

Ma Lin (table tennis)

Ma Lin is a male table tennis player. He is the world's number four ranked player as of June, 2011 in the International Table Tennis Federation ....

Wang Liqin

Wang Liqin is a Chinese table tennis player. As of October, 2011, he is ranked 8th in the International Table Tennis Federation . He began playing at the age of 6 and was picked for the Chinese men's national squad in 1993 when he was only 15 years old. Wang is the last man since Jiang Jialiang to...

Shinnosuke Kiho
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Wu Na
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Li Ju

Li Ju is a female Chinese table tennis player.-Achievements:*1996 Asian Cup - 1st team, 2nd singles*1997 World Championships - 1st team, 2nd doubles , 3rd singles*1997 World Cup - 2nd singles...

Chai Po Wa
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|1994
Shanghai

Shanghai

Shanghai is the largest city by population in China and the largest city proper in the world. It is one of the four province-level municipalities in the People's Republic of China, with a total population of over 23 million as of 2010...

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Lin Zhigang
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Xiong Ke
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Yoo Nam-Kyu

Yoo Nam-Kyu is a male former table tennis player from South Korea who competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics, in the 1992 Summer Olympics, and in the 1996 Summer Olympics....

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Qiao Hong

Qiao Hong is a former female Chinese table tennis player. She is now the coach of the women's national table tennis team and a member of the Chinese Olympic Committee....

Kim Koo-Kyo
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Jing Junhong
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|1993
Shunde

Shunde

Shunde District is a district of Foshan prefecture-level city in the Pearl River Delta, Guangdong Province, southeast China.-Administration:Shunde was a county-level city until December 8, 2002, when it became a district of Foshan prefecture-level city...

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Li Gun-Sang
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Wang Tao

Wang Tao (table tennis)

Wang Tao is a retired Chinese table tennis player, the current head coach of the Bayi Gongshang club in the China Table Tennis Super League, a major general of the People's Liberation Army, and a member of the Chinese Olympic Committee.Wang Tao is left-handed, and uses a shakehand...

Liu Guoliang

Liu Guoliang is a Chinese table tennis player who won all titles at major world tournaments including World Championships, World Cup and Olympic Games. The second man to achieve a career grand slam of 3 majors . He is considered by many to be one of the greatest players of all time.-Biography:Liu...

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Liu Wei

Liu Wei (table tennis)

Liu Wei is a former female table tennis player from China. From 1989 to 1996 she won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the Asian Table Tennis Championships, in the Table Tennis World Cup, and in the World Table Tennis Championships. She also achieved a silver Olympic medal in...

Qiao Hong

Qiao Hong is a former female Chinese table tennis player. She is now the coach of the women's national table tennis team and a member of the Chinese Olympic Committee....

Li Bun-Hui

Li Bun-Hui is a former female table tennis player from North Korea who competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics. She is married to Kim Song Hui, also a former table tennis player who represented North Korea, and has a son.-External links:*...

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Hong Kong

Hong Kong

Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...

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Ma Wenge

Ma Wenge is a male table tennis player from China. He won a bronze medal in 1992 Barcelona Olympics Games in men's single, as well as men's team champion of 1995 and 1997 world table tennis championship .-References:...

Lee Sang-Joon
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Lo Chuen Tsung
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Deng Yaping

Deng Yaping is a Chinese table tennis player, who won six world championships and four Olympic championships between 1989 and 1997...

Guo Jun
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Chan Tan Lui
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|1991 (Nov)
Manila

Manila

Manila is the capital of the Philippines. It is one of the sixteen cities forming Metro Manila.Manila is located on the eastern shores of Manila Bay and is bordered by Navotas and Caloocan to the north, Quezon City to the northeast, San Juan and Mandaluyong to the east, Makati on the southeast,...

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Kim Guk-Chol
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Kim Song-Hui
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Lee Chul-Song
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Liu Wei
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Deng Yaping

Deng Yaping is a Chinese table tennis player, who won six world championships and four Olympic championships between 1989 and 1997...

Chai Po Wa
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|1991 (May)
Dhaka

Dhaka

Dhaka is the capital of Bangladesh and the principal city of Dhaka Division. Dhaka is a megacity and one of the major cities of South Asia. Located on the banks of the Buriganga River, Dhaka, along with its metropolitan area, had a population of over 15 million in 2010, making it the largest city...

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Wang Yonggan
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Lee Chul-Song
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Kim Guk-Chol
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Lee Jong-Suk
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Fan Jianxin
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Zhang Qin
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|1989
Beijing

Beijing

Beijing , also known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's...

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Kiyoshi Saito
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Ma Wenge

Chen Longcan

Chen Longcan is a male Chinese table tennis player. He won the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games in the men's doubles with Wei Qingguang.-Achievements:*1985 World Championships - 1st team*1986 World Cup - 1st singles...

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Yu Soo-Bok
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Qiao Hong

Qiao Hong is a former female Chinese table tennis player. She is now the coach of the women's national table tennis team and a member of the Chinese Olympic Committee....

Chai Po Wa
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|1988
Manila

Manila

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Wei Qingguang

Wei Qingguang is a Chinese table tennis player. He won the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games in the doubles with Chen Longcan...

Chen Longcan

Kim Taek-Soo

Kim Taek-Soo is a male former table tennis player from South Korea. He is best known for his powerful forehand, amazingly quick footwork and perhaps the best traditional penhold backhand in the history of table tennis...

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Deng Yaping

Deng Yaping is a Chinese table tennis player, who won six world championships and four Olympic championships between 1989 and 1997...

Li Huifen

Li Huifen is a female Chinese table tennis player. She won a silver medal in the 1988 Seoul Olympics Games in women's singles.In her 15-year athletic career, she won a total of 37 gold medals, 16 silver and 16 bronze....

Chai Po Wa
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|1987
Seoul

Seoul

Seoul , officially the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. A megacity with a population of over 10 million, it is the largest city proper in the OECD developed world...

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Teng Yi
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Chen Longcan

Kim Ki-Taek
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Jiao Zhimin

Jiao Zhimin is a female Chinese former table tennis player. She won a bronze medal in women's singles and a silver medal in women's doubles at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games. She was a semi-finalist in women's singles and doubles at the 1985 World Championships in Gothenburg...

Li Huifen

Hyun Jung-Hwa

Hyun Jung-Hwa is a former female table tennis player from South Korea who competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics, and in the 1992 Summer Olympics....

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Karachi

Karachi

Karachi is the largest city, main seaport and the main financial centre of Pakistan, as well as the capital of the province of Sindh. The city has an estimated population of 13 to 15 million, while the total metropolitan area has a population of over 18 million...

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Wei Qingguang

Wei Qingguang is a Chinese table tennis player. He won the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games in the doubles with Chen Longcan...

Fan Changmao
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Kim Song-Hui
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Hu Xiaoxin
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Zhu Juan
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Cho Jong-Hui
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|1985
Singapore

Singapore

Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

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Chen Longcan

Jiang Jialiang

Jiang Jialiang is a male former table tennis player from China. From 1982 to 1989 he won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the Asian Table Tennis Championships, in the Table Tennis World Cup, and in the World Table Tennis Championships....

Teng Yi
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Jiao Zhimin

Ni Xialian

Ni Xialian is a female Chinese-born table tennis player who now represents Luxembourg. She was born in Shanghai, and resides in Ettelbruck.She competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics, reaching the third round of the singles competition....

Cho Jong-Hui
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|1984
New Delhi

New Delhi

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Hui Jun
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Cai Zhenhua

Cai Zhenhua is a male former table tennis player from China. From 1980 to 1985 he won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the Asian Table Tennis Championships and in the World Table Tennis Championships.-References:...

Xie Saike
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Tong Ling
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Ni Xialian

Lee Mi-Woo
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|1983
Wuxi

Wuxi

Wuxi is an old city in Jiangsu province, People's Republic of China. Split in half by Lake Tai, Wuxi borders Changzhou to the west and Suzhou to the east. The northern half looks across to Taizhou across the Yangtze River, while the southern half also borders the province of Zhejiang to the south...

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Cai Zhenhua

Jiang Jialiang

Xie Saike
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Cao Yanhua

Cao Yanhua is a male former table tennis player from China. From 1978 to 1985 he won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the Asian Table Tennis Championships and in the World Table Tennis Championships.-References:...

Tong Ling
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Jiao Zhimin

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a. The 2004 Women's Asian Cup was postponed to November, 2005. And the 2005 Asian Cup was held in December of the same year.
b. The 24th Asian Cup was scheduled in Yokohama

Yokohama

is the capital city of Kanagawa Prefecture and the second largest city in Japan by population after Tokyo and most populous municipality of Japan. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of Tokyo, in the Kantō region of the main island of Honshu...

, Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

between March 26–27, 2011. Postponed by Japan Table Tennis Association due to associations’ withdrawal caused by the Tōhoku earthquake

2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami

The 2011 earthquake off the Pacific coast of Tohoku, also known as the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, or the Great East Japan Earthquake, was a magnitude 9.0 undersea megathrust earthquake off the coast of Japan that occurred at 14:46 JST on Friday, 11 March 2011, with the epicenter approximately east...

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