Qin Zhijian (born 1976) is a former male

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international

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player and current coach.

Playing career

He has won four World Championship medals. He won the

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in the mixed doubles at the

1999 World Table Tennis Championships The 1999 World Table tennis, Table Tennis Championships were held in Eindhoven from August 2 to August 8, 1999. The Championships were originally scheduled from April 26 to May 9 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia but were postponed after the NATO bombing of ...

, a

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in the mixed doubles at the

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with Yang Ying and two bronze medals at the

2003 World Table Tennis Championships The 2003 World Table Tennis Championships were held at the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy in Paris from May 19 to May 25, 2003. It was the 47th edition of the table tennis contest. Liebherr Liebherr () is a German-Swiss multinational corpora ...

in the men's doubles and mixed doubles with Ma Lin and

Niu Jianfeng Niu Jianfeng (; born on April 3, 1981, in Baoding, Hebei) is a Chinese table tennis player who competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad (), and officially branded as Athe ...

, respectively.

Coaching

In 2017 he became the China national men's table tennis team's first team coach. He was replaced by Wang Hao in early 2023. Before that, he was the personal coach of

Ma Long Ma Long ( zh, s=马龙, p=Mǎ Lóng; born 20 October 1988) is a Chinese professional table tennis player. He is a two-time Olympic champion, three-time World Champion, and three-time World Cup champion in men's singles. Widely regarded as the g ...

since 2006 who he developed and trained into a Grand Slam Champion.

References

Living people 1976 births Chinese male table tennis players Table tennis players from Jiangsu World Table Tennis Championships medalists Chinese table tennis coaches {{PRChina-tabletennis-bio-stub

Playing career

Coaching

See also

References