Qiu Zhonghui

Qiu Zhonghui - formerly Chiu Chung- Hui - ( born 1935 ) is a former Chinese table tennis player with the biggest successes in the 1950s and 1960s. It was 1961 World Champion in singles.

Qiu Zhonghui took from 1956 to 1963 at five world championships. The most successful she was in 1961 in Beijing when she became world champion in singles the first Chinese woman. In the final they defeated the Hungarian Éva Kóczián. In addition, she won silver with Sun Mei -ying in the doubles and the women's team, in mixed she reached the quarter-finals. Bronze medal in the team competition she won in 1957, 1959 and 1963. Overall, four times she came even to the semifinals, namely in 1959 in singles and doubles with Wang Chien and 1963 in a double with Wang Chien and mixed with Zhuang Zedong.

In the ITTF World Ranking was conducted in 1961 at number one. 1963 ended Qiu Zhonghui health reasons their active career.

During the Cultural Revolution, she was under house arrest and had to suffer reprisals.

Results from the ITTF database