Liu Guoliang

Liu Guoliang (Chinese刘 国梁/刘 国梁, Pinyin Liu Guoliang; born January 10, 1976 in Xinxiang ) is a former Chinese table tennis player and two-time Olympic champion. He won in his career Olympic Games, World Championships and the World Cup.

According magazine DTS, 1996/8 p.26 Liu Guoliang was born on 31 May 1975.

Career

Guoliang comes from a family of four. He started with the table tennis at age six. At the age of 20 he won the gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, both in single as well as double with Kong Linghui. Four years later at the Summer Olympic Games in Sydney, he was the third single. The gold medal was won his doubles partner Kong Linghui. With this he went again to the double and won him the silver medal.

Liu won a total of nine medals ( six gold medals and three silver ) at World Table Tennis Championships. The single title he won in 1999 in Eindhoven, as the title in doubles with Kong Linghui. He was the first to elite athletes a backhand topspin with penholder racket attitude.

In the 1996/97 season Guoliang played in the German Bundesliga at TTC Jülich, however, disappointed to board 1 with a 0-4 record.

Liu retired in 2002 from active competition. He was appointed coach of the Chinese table tennis team in 2003. He performed this at the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing for the team gold as well as a triple victory of Ma Lin, Wang Hao and Wang Liqin in singles. Since early 2013 he is responsible for the adults and the youth as a general - head coach.

Private

Since mid-2006, Liu Guoliang is married to the former Chinese national team Wang Jin, the proprietress for Table Tennis Product Guoqiu. He has twin daughters (* 2010). His brother Liu Guodong coached at the 2008 Olympics the women's team of Singapore; From 2009 he works as a coach of Indonesia.

Results from the ITTF database