Dang Qiu (; born 29 October 1996) is a German professional
table tennis
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player.
Career
In June 2022, Qiu defeated
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in seven games at the
WTT Contender in
Lima
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. The victory helped him reach world No. 10 in the
ITTF world ranking. In August 2022, Qiu defeated
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4–1 in the
European Table Tennis Championships Finals.
As the top-ranked player in German team, Qiu help the team advance to the final of
2022 World Team Championships later in October.
Personal life
Qiu was born in
Nürtingen,
Germany
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in a family of
Chinese descent.
He comes from a family of table tennis enthusiasts. His parents were table tennis players trained in
Jiangsu
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, China and moved to Germany in the 1990s.
Dang's father, named Jianxin Qiu () started to coach in Japan in 1997. Dang's older brother, named Liang Qiu () is also a table tennis player in Germany.
Singles titles
References
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Living people
1996 births
German male table tennis players
German people of Chinese descent
People from Nürtingen
Sportspeople from Stuttgart (region)
World Table Tennis Championships medalists