Cao Yanhua

Cao Yanhua (Tsao Yen-hua)
Personal information
Nationality China
Born (1962-12-01) 1 December 1962
Sport
SportTable tennis
Medal record
Women's table tennis
Representing  China
World Championships
Gold medal – first place1985 GothenburgSingles
Silver medal – second place1985 GothenburgDoubles
Gold medal – first place1985 GothenburgMixed Doubles
Gold medal – first place1983 TokyoSingles
Bronze medal – third place1983 TokyoDoubles
Bronze medal – third place1983 TokyoMixed Doubles
Gold medal – first place1983 TokyoWomen's Team
Silver medal – second place1981 Novi SadSingles
Gold medal – first place1981 Novi SadDoubles
Gold medal – first place1981 Novi SadWomen's Team
Gold medal – first place1979 PyongyangWomen's Team
Asian Championships
Gold medal – first place1982 JakartaSingles
Gold medal – first place1982 JakartaDoubles
Bronze medal – third place1982 JakartaMixed Doubles
Gold medal – first place1982 JakartaWomen's Team
Gold medal – first place1978 Kuala LumpurSingles
Bronze medal – third place1978 Kuala LumpurDoubles
Gold medal – first place1978 Kuala LumpurWomen's Team

Cao Yanhua (Chinese: 曹燕华; pinyin: Cáo Yànhuá) also Tsao Yen-hua is a Chinese former international table tennis player.

Career

From 1978 to 1985, Yanhua won many medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the Asian Table Tennis Championships and in the World Table Tennis Championships.[1] However, in 1979, after winning Corbillon Cup as a member of Chinese team for her first time, she lost to Judit Magos in second round.[2]

The eleven World Championship medals[3][4] included seven gold medals; two in the singles at the 1983 World Table Tennis Championships and 1985 World Table Tennis Championships, three in the team, one in the mixed doubles with Cai Zhenhua and one in the women's doubles with Zhang Deying.[5][6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "CAO Yanhua (CHN)". ittf.com. Archived from the original on 17 October 2012. Retrieved 22 August 2022.
  2. ↑ "May-June 1979.pdf" (PDF). tte-online-document-archive.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 May 2026. Retrieved 8 May 2026.
  3. ↑ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123. Archived from the original on 22 September 2018. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
  4. ↑ "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
  5. ↑ Montague, Trevor (2004). A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700. The Bath Press. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
  6. ↑ Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian (1987). The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pages 309-312. Guinness Superlatives. ISBN 0-85112-492-5.
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