Liang Geliang
Liang Geliang - also Liang Ko -liang - ( born May 5, 1950 in the province of Guangxi ) is a Chinese table tennis player. He was in the 1970s, six times world champion and three times Vice World Champion.
Play
Liang Geliang began the age of ten with the table tennis games. He used the bat in the penholder grip, later he turned around to shake hands. He is an allround player who can play both defense and attack. A tireless " material tinkerer " he changed sometimes even during a tournament his racket covering, by separating the upper layer of the substrate and live newly glued or a new (often even an already used and in the past for particularly found to be good ), taping top layer.
World Championships
Liang Geliang was nominated for the World Championships in 1971, 1973, 1975, 1977 and 1979. Here, he won six times the titles: 1971, 1975, 1977 with the Chinese team in 1973 in the Mixed with Li Li, 1977 Double with Li Zhenshi and 1979 in mixed doubles with Ge Xinai. Vice world champion he was in the 1971 Double with Chuang Tse -Tung, and 1993 and 1979 with the team. In individual he took in 1977 and 1979 bronze. He also finished third in the 1975 Mixed with Zhang Li and 1979 in a double with Guo Yuehua.
Germany
1980 Liang Geliang came to Germany for the first time. He played in early 1981 for VfB Luebeck in the fifth division, then in the 1981/82 season for VfB Plaza Altena. At the same time he worked as a head coach in Hamburg and played some exhibition matches. In 1982 he returned to China and graduated from the University of Beijing, a coach training.
In 1985 he moved again with his family to Lübeck and worked at VfB Lübeck as player-coach in the second division in 1987, he trained at the same time the club Spvg Steinhagen. About the stations DJK Kleinwallstadt, TSV Milbertshofen (from 1993) and SV Ried nobility he came in 2000 to SV Blau-Weiss Peter Hagen in the Oberliga Berlin- Brandenburg.
Several times he was successful in Senior World Championships: In the age group Ü40 he won gold in the individual 1990, 1992 and 1994, and in the twin 1990 ( with Jaroslav Kunz ), 1992 ( with Heiner Lammers ) and 1994 ( with Herbert Neubauer ). In the class Ü50 he took in 2000 and 2002 the individual title. In 2010 he won in Ü60 - double with Wilfried Lieck.
Private
Liang Geliang is married to wife Lijun Ma and has a daughter named Liang Chen ( b. 1979 ), who played from 1994 to 1997 at a red - white - Klettham Erding in the 2nd table tennis league. After training and working as a retail clerk she held from 2008 to 2009 with her parents in China.
Results from the ITTF database