Xi Enting ( 3 January 1946 – 27 October 2019) was a male

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player from China. Xi was born in 1946 in

Tangshan Tangshan () is a coastal, industrial prefecture-level city in the northeast of Hebei province. It is located in the eastern part of Hebei Province and the northeastern part of the North China Plain. It is located in the central area of the Boha ...

Hebei Hebei or , (; alternately Hopeh) is a northern province of China. Hebei is China's sixth most populous province, with over 75 million people. Shijiazhuang is the capital city. The province is 96% Han Chinese, 3% Manchu, 0.8% Hui, and ...

, Republic of China. He trained at Baoding Amateur Sports School and entered the Chinese National Table Tennis Team at age 19. From 1971 to 1975, Xi won four medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the

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and several medals in the

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. The four world medals included two gold medals in the men's team event at the

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and the men's singles at the

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. Xi died from

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on 27 October 2019, aged 73.

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1946 births 2019 deaths Chinese male table tennis players Asian Games medalists in table tennis Table tennis players at the 1974 Asian Games Table tennis players from Baoding Medalists at the 1974 Asian Games Asian Games gold medalists for China Asian Games bronze medalists for China Sportspeople from Tangshan {{PRChina-tabletennis-bio-stub

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