Huang Liang (; 20 March 1954 – 23 December 1999) was a male Chinese international

table tennis Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...

player.

Career

He won three medals at the

1977 World Table Tennis Championships The 1977 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Birmingham at the then newly opened National Exhibition Centre, from March 28 to April 7, 1977. Organisation During these Championships, players and officials stayed at the Student Accommodat ...

; a

bronze medal A bronze medal in sports and other similar areas involving competition is a medal made of bronze awarded to the third-place finisher of contests or competitions such as the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, etc. The outright winner receive ...

in the men's singles a

silver medal A silver medal in sports and other similar areas involving competition is a medal made of, or plated with, silver awarded to the second-place finisher, or runner-up, of contests or competitions such as the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, etc ...

in the men's doubles with

Lu Yuansheng Lu Yuansheng also Lu Yuan-sheng, (born 7 October 1954) is a male Chinese former international table tennis player and current coach. He won a gold medal at the 1975 World Table Tennis Championships in the men's team event and a silver medal in t ...

and a

gold medal A gold medal is a medal awarded for highest achievement in a non-military field. Its name derives from the use of at least a fraction of gold in form of plating or alloying in its manufacture. Since the eighteenth century, gold medals have bee ...

in the Swaythling Cup (men's team event) for China. Two years later he won a silver at the

1979 World Table Tennis Championships The 1979 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Pyongyang from April 25 to May 6, 1979. Results Team Individual References External linksITTF Museum {{World Table Tennis Championships World Table Tennis Championships World Table ...

in the Swaythling Cup (men's team) and in 1981 won a bronze medal at the

1981 World Table Tennis Championships The 1981 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Novi Sad (Yugoslavia) from April 14 to April 26, 1981. Results Team Individual References External linksITTF Museum {{World Table Tennis Championships World Table Tennis Champions ...

with

Pu Qijuan Pu Qijuan (born 1960) is a female Chinese former international table tennis player. She won two medals at the 1981 World Table Tennis Championships in the women's doubles (silver medal) with Tong Ling and mixed doubles (bronze medal) with Huang ...

in the mixed doubles. He worked in Italy in the 1990s, and was diagnosed of esophagus cancer in 1997. When his health deteriorated, his family brought him back to Henan Cancer Hospital in

Zhengzhou Zhengzhou (; ), also spelt Zheng Zhou and alternatively romanized as Chengchow, is the capital and largest city of Henan Province in the central part of the People's Republic of China. Located in north-central Henan, it is one of the National ...

for treatment in December 1999.

References

1954 births Chinese male table tennis players Table tennis players from Henan People from Yanshi Year of death uncertain World Table Tennis Championships medalists Sportspeople from Luoyang Year of death missing {{PRChina-tabletennis-bio-stub

Career

See also

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