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Liu Jia
Liu Jia ( zh, t=劉佳; born 16 February 1982 in Beijing, China) is a Chinese-born Austrian left-handed table tennis player. Early life From 1992 to 1995, Liu attended Shichahai Sporting High School in Beijing. Afterward she became a member of professional club Shian Nuntan, where she played with Zhang Yining. Despite Liu's successes as a Cadet and Junior, competition within the Chinese team was strong and prospects for a future international career were dim. Instead of following a call to Japan, Liu travelled to Austria when the opportunity arose to play for Austrian team Linz AG Froschberg. She arrived in March 1997 without speaking either German or English, but quickly learned German within the year that she settled in Austria. She won the first International Austrian Youth Championships soon after her arrival. On 16 February 1998, her 16th birthday, she became an Austrian citizen and a member of the Austrian table tennis squad. Her husband, David Arvidsson is an internat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linz
Linz (Pronunciation: , ; ) is the capital of Upper Austria and List of cities and towns in Austria, third-largest city in Austria. Located on the river Danube, the city is in the far north of Austria, south of the border with the Czech Republic. As of 1 January 2024, the city has a population of 212,538. It is the seventh-largest of all List of cities and towns on the river Danube, cities on the river Danube. History Linz originated as a Roman Empire, Roman fort named ''Lentia'', established in the first century. The name reflects its location at a bend in the Danube (Celtic languages, Celtic root ''lentos'' = "bendable"). This strategic position on the river made it the first Roman fort in the Noricum region, protecting a vital transportation route. The name "Linz" in its present form was first documented in 799. Linz was mentioned as a fortified city in 1236 and was granted city rights in 1324. Johannes Kepler spent several years of his life in the city teaching m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Table Tennis At The 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's Team
The women's team table tennis event was part of the Table tennis at the 2008 Summer Olympics, table tennis programme and took place between August 13 and 17 at the Peking University Gymnasium. Teams consisted of three members. The sixteen teams were divided into four groups of four teams each, playing a round-robin within their pool. The top team in each pool advanced to the semifinals, with the second-place team from each group going to the bronze medal playoffs. The two semifinal winners met in the gold medal match, while the two semifinal losers each played against one of the winners from the bronze medal playoffs, with the winners of those games meeting in the bronze medal match. Each match consisted of up to five games, with the first team to win three being declared the winner. The first two games in each match were singles, the third was doubles, and the final two were singles again. Each team member competed in two of the five games, according to a set rotation. Qualific ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Markus Rogan
Markus Antonius Rogan (born 4 May 1982 in Vienna) is a retired Austrian swimmer, who won two silver medals at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece and a gold medal for 200 m backstroke at the 2008 World Short Course Championships in Manchester. He also was the world record holder in 200 metres backstroke ( short course) in that year. Rogan's first big international success was a second-place finish in the 200 m backstroke at the 2001 World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan. In the Olympics in 2004, Rogan placed second in both men's 100 m backstroke and the men's 200 m backstroke, both times behind Aaron Peirsol of the United States. The 200 metre race was controversial as Peirsol was first disqualified but later reinstated as gold medalist. Rogan told Peirsol on television that the result was unfair and that Peirsol should protest. As a teenager, the 6 ft 5 in tall Rogan swam for Mount Vernon High School in Fairfax County, Virginia, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 World Table Tennis Championships
The 2008 Evergrande Real Estate World Team Table Tennis Championships was held in the Guangzhou Gymnasium of Guangzhou, China from February 24 to March 2, 2008. This decision was announced in May 2005. It is the 49th edition to be contested. Medal summary Medal table Events Results Men's team Final Place 1–12 bracket Women's team Final Place 1–12 bracket References ITTF website {{World Table Tennis Championships World Table Tennis Championships Table tennis competitions in China World Table Tennis Cham ...
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World Table Tennis Championships
The World Table Tennis Championships are table tennis competitions sanctioned by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). The World Championships have been held since 1926, biennially since 1957. Five individual events, which include men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, women's double and mixed doubles, are currently held in odd numbered years. The World Team Table Tennis Championships, which include men's team and women's team events, were first their own competition in 2000. The Team Championships are held in even numbered years. In the earlier days of the tournament, Hungary's men's team was a dominant force, winning the championships 12 times. This was followed by a short period of dominance by Japan in the 1950s. From the 1960s onwards, China emerged as the new dominant power in this tournament and, with the exception of 1989–2000, when Sweden won four times, China continues to dominate the sport. China's men's team holds a record 23 world team championsh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Werner Schlager
Werner Schlager (born September 28, 1972 in Wiener Neustadt, Austria) is a table tennis player and former world champion from Austria. Career Schlager began playing table tennis when he was six years old, learning from his father, Rudolph Schlager and brother, Harald Schlager who were also top Austrian players, making them ideal training partners. In fact, starting out, Schlager became well-versed playing both with and against long pips like his brother. After placing top in numerous singles and doubles tournaments, he won the 2003 Singles World Championship held in Paris beating South Korean Joo Se-Hyuk in the final to clinch the world title. Werner Schlager was renowned for his immense skill in service and receive, which was one of the biggest contributors to his success. His serves were patently legal, and relied solely on creativity rather than trying to hide the ball. His serving has been admired and praised by the likes of Liu Guoliang. In an interview, after being aske ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanna Haponova
Hanna Haponova (in statistics also Ganna Gaponova, ; born 28 October 1985) is a Ukrainian table tennis player who has competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics where she was relegated in the Round 1 by Austrian Liu Jia. Haponova won bronze medal in team competition at the 2015 European Championships (in team with Margaryta Pesotska and Tetyana Bilenko Tetiana Heorhiivna Bilenko, née Sorochynska (born 23 November 1983) is a Ukrainian table tennis player who has competed at three Olympics. Career She competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics, reaching the first round of the singles competition. S ...) and another bronze in doubles competition at the 2020 European Championships (together with Bilenko) which was Ukraine's first continental medal in women's doubles. References External links * 1985 births Living people Ukrainian female table tennis players Table tennis players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic table tennis players for Ukraine Sportspeople from Kharkiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Table Tennis At The 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's Singles
The women's singles table tennis event was part of the table tennis programme at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. The event took place from 24 July to 29 July 2021 at Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium is a sporting complex in Sendagaya, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. Built in 1954 for the World Amateur wrestling, Wrestling Championship, it was also used as the venue for Gymnastics at the 1964 Summer Olympics, gymnastics at the 1964 Summer Olympics .... Qualification Schedule Seeds The top 16 seeded players qualified directly to the third round. (champion, gold medalist) ''(final, silver medalist)'' ''(semifinals, bronze medalist)'' ''(third round)'' ''(quarterfinals)'' ''(fourth round)'' ''(quarterfinals)'' ''(quarterfinals)'' ''(third round)'' ''(fourth round)'' ''(third round)'' ''(quarterfinals)'' ''(fourth round)'' ''(third round)'' ''(third round)'' ''(fourth round)'' The players seeded from 17 to 32 qualified directly to the second round. ''(second ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hend Zaza
Hend Zaza (; born 1 January 2009) is a Syrian table tennis player. She qualified to play in the 2020 Summer Olympics in 2021 in Tokyo, through the West Asia Olympic qualifying tournament held in Jordan in 2020. At the age of 12, she was the youngest person to compete in Olympic table tennis, and the fifth-youngest person to compete in the modern Olympics. She was the youngest competitor at the 2020 games, and the youngest Olympic competitor since Beatrice Huștiu, a Romanian figure-skater who competed in 1968. Biography Zaza was born on 1 January 2009 in Hama, Syria, and started to play table tennis in 2014. In 2016, she attended an International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) "Hopes Week and Challenge" event in Qatar with her older brother, and her potential was noticed. She plays for the Al-Muhafaza Table Tennis Club in Damascus and has won national titles at all levels: hopes, cadets, junior and senior. Olympics 2021 Zaza is the first Syrian to compete in the Olympic table t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020 Summer Olympics
The officially the and officially branded as were an international multi-sport event that was held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some of the preliminary sporting events beginning on 21 July 2021. Tokyo was selected as the List of Olympic Games host cities, host city during the 125th IOC Session in Buenos Aires, Argentina on 7 September 2013. Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the Tokyo Games were postponed until 2021 on 24 March 2020 as a result of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the first such instance in the history of the Olympic Games (some previous editions had been cancelled but not rescheduled). However, the Tokyo 2020 branding was retained for marketing purposes.Multiple sources: * * * The events were largely held Behind closed doors (sport), behind closed doors with no public spectators permitted due to the declaration of a state of emergency in the Greater Tokyo Area in response ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 Summer Olympics Parade Of Nations
During the Parade of Nations within the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Summer Olympics opening ceremony, athletes and officials from each participating team marched in the Maracanã Stadium preceded by their flag and placard bearer. Each flag bearer had been chosen either by the team's National Olympic Committee or by the athletes themselves. Parade order Greece at the 2016 Summer Olympics, Greece entered first, as the nation of the Ancient Olympic Games, ancient and 1896 Summer Olympics, first modern Olympic Games. The host nation Brazil at the 2016 Summer Olympics, Brazil marched last. Other teams entered in alphabetical order in the language of the host country (Portuguese language, Portuguese), according with tradition and International Olympic Committee, IOC guidelines. Announcers in the stadium read off the names of the marching teams in French language, French and English language, English (the official languages of the Olympics) as well as Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Table Tennis At The 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's Team
The women's team table tennis event was part of the table tennis programme at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. The event took place from Friday 12 August to Tuesday 16 August 2016 at Riocentro. The medals were presented by Timothy Fok, IOC member, Hong Kong and Thomas Weikert, President of the ITTF. Format Teams were made up of three players. Each team match was made up of five individual matches and ended when either side had won three matches. Qualification Schedule All times are Brasília Time Time in Brazil is calculated using standard time, and the country (including its offshore islands) is divided into four standard time zones: Fernando de Noronha time (UTC−02:00), Brasília time (UTC−03:00), Amazon time (UTC−04:00), and Acr ... ( UTC−3). Seeds Team ranking was based on the individual ITTF rating points of 31 July 2016 but was taken into consideration only the players qualified from each team. Bracket Results First round ---- ---- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
