Jiang Jialiang (; born 3 March 1964) is a male former international
table tennis
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player from China. He competed at the
1988 Summer Olympics
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.
Table tennis career
From 1982 to 1989 he won many medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the
Asian Table Tennis Championships, in the
Table Tennis World Cup, and in the
World Table Tennis Championships
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. Since his retirement, Jiang has served as a color commentator for table tennis sporting events on Hong Kong television station TVB.
The ten World Championship medals included five
gold medal
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Since the eighteenth century, gold medals have b ...
s; two in the men's singles at the
1985 World Table Tennis Championships and
1987 World Table Tennis Championships and three in the men's team event.
ITTF Legends Tour
In 2014 and 2015, Jiang participated in the ITTF Legend Tour which featured table tennis legends such as
Jan-Ove Waldner,
Jean-Michel Saive and
Jean-Philippe Gatien
Jean-Philippe Gatien (, born 16 October 1968, in Alès, France, is a retired French table tennis player.
He competed in four Olympics Games from 1988 to 2000, winning silver in the singles at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and bronze in doubles (wi ...
.
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See also
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List of table tennis players
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List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists
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References
1964 births
Living people
Chinese male table tennis players
Table tennis players from Guangdong
People from Zhongshan
Asian Games medalists in table tennis
Table tennis players at the 1986 Asian Games
Olympic table tennis players for China
Table tennis players at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1986 Asian Games
Asian Games silver medalists for China
20th-century Chinese sportsmen
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