An Jae-hyun (, born 25 December 1999) is a South Korean

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 a bronze medal at the

2019 World Table Tennis Championships The 2019 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Budapest, Hungary from 21 to 28 April 2019. It was the 55th edition of the championships, and the fourth time that they were held in Budapest. Schedule Five events were contested, with qualif ...

2021

An Jaehyun failed to qualify for the 2021 Tokyo Olympics despite tying for the best overall record at the Korean Olympic trials and going undefeated against top seed

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and second seed and eventual trial winner

Lee Sang-su Lee Sang-su (born 13 August 1990) is a South Korean table tennis player. He won two singles titles at the ITTF Pro Tour, the first one was in 2010. He reached semifinals in singles event at the 2017 World Championships. Lee Sangsu represented ...

. An Jae-hyun lost in the round of 16 to

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at the WTT Contender event in World Table Tennis' inaugural event WTT Doha. Despite only being ranked 39, An was able to avenge his World Championship semi-final loss to world ranked #8

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with a 3–0 win in the round of 32.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:An, Jae-hyun South Korean male table tennis players 1999 births Living people World Table Tennis Championships medalists Sportspeople from Daejeon 21st-century South Korean people