Wang Chen (table tennis)

Wang Chen ( born January 17, 1974 in Beijing ) is a former Chinese and now American table tennis player who has been with the Chinese team's Asian champion and world champion.

Career in China

With seven years, Wang Chen first came into contact with table tennis and joined a club at. Due to her talent she two years later left school and went to a sports boarding school. As an eleven year old it belonged to the Junior National Team. In 1989 she won at the Asian Junior Championships title with the team in doubles with Wu Na she reached the final.

In 1992, she first participated at the Asian Championships for adults and came in individual semi-finals. In her second participation in 1996 she won three medals: silver in singles and doubles ( with Wu Na ), gold with the Chinese team. She was twice nominated for participation in the World Championships. In 1995, she won the individual bronze, 1997, she was with the Chinese team world champion. At the World Cup in 1996, she came in third place.

In the ITTF World Ranking Wang Chen took the end of 1997 in fourth place.

When she was not considered in 1996 for the Summer Olympic Games and also participate in 2000 seemed unlikely, she retired in 1998 from the Chinese national team back and abruptly ended her international career .. now played at a number of European clubs, and moved in 2000 to her sister in the United States after New jersey.

Time in the United States

After a pause, Wang Chen went back to tournaments, approximately at Pro Tour tournaments on. In 2006 she became an American citizen and was therefore eligible to play in the national team. 2006 and 2007 it was North American champion in singles, in 2007 and 2008, she competed at the World Championships. In 2008 she also took part in the Olympic Games in Beijing, where she reached the quarterfinals in singles and with the American team, which consisted exclusively of China - born ladies with Guo Jun, Crystal Huang and Wang Chen, finished fifth.

In August 2008, Wang Chen announced the end of her career.

Activities in Europe

The mid-1990s played Wang Chen in Hungary Statisztika Budapest, later the Austrian club ASKOE Froschberg -Linz. She was engaged by the TTC Langweid for the German Bundesliga in 1999. As the beginning of 2000 it was announced that she also played for the Chinese club Beijing Taiyang Medicine Table Tennis Club, it was blocked by the German Table Tennis Association DTTB for the Bundesliga. Later, she was back in the squad of Froschberg to 2004 return to the Bundesliga TTC HS Schwarza. In 2006, she joined the SV Böblingen, a year later, she moved to the Dutch MS Services Heerlen.

Private

Wang Chen is married to a U.S. citizen since 2006.

Results from the ITTF database