Xu Yinsheng

Xu Yinsheng
Xu in 1965
Personal information
Nationality China
Born (1938-05-12) 12 May 1938
Shanghai, Republic of China
Sport
SportTable tennis
Medal record
Men's table tennis
Representing  China
World Championships
Gold medal – first place1965 LjubljanaDoubles
Gold medal – first place1965 LjubljanaTeam
Silver medal – second place1963 PragueDoubles
Gold medal – first place1963 PragueTeam
Bronze medal – third place1961 BeijingSingles
Gold medal – first place1961 BeijingTeam
Bronze medal – third place1959 DortmundTeam

Xu Yinsheng (Chinese: 徐寅生; Wade–Giles: Hsü Yin-sheng; born 12 May 1938) is a male former table tennis player from China. He was born in Shanghai.

Table tennis career

From 1959 to 1965, he won seven medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the World Table Tennis Championships.[1]

His seven World Championship medals[2][3] included four gold medals; three in the team event and one in the doubles with Zhuang Zedong at the 1965 World Table Tennis Championships.[4][5] He was the coach of the national team in Nagoya 1971 World Championship.

Professional achievements

He was president of the International Table Tennis Federation from 1995, following the sudden death of Sven-Olof Hammarlund, till 1999, when he was succeeded by the Canadian Adham Sharara.

He has been inducted in the ITTF Hall of Fame in 2010.

Other significance

On the eve of the Cultural Revolution, Xu's advice for playing ping pong was viewed as informative also in the context of commerce, and as endorsed by People's Daily, it was promoted as relevant inspiration for retail workers.[6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "ITTF_Database". Archived from the original on 15 January 2016.
  2. ↑ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123. Archived from the original on 2018-09-22. Retrieved 2018-02-28.
  3. ↑ "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
  4. ↑ Montague, Trevor (2004). A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700. The Bath Press. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
  5. ↑ Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian (1987). The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pages 309-312. Guinness Superlatives. ISBN 0-85112-492-5.
  6. ↑ Coderre, Laurence (2021). Newborn socialist things : materiality in Maoist China. Durham: Duke University Press. p. 67. ISBN 978-1-4780-2161-2. OCLC 1250021710.
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