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Jing Junhong
Jing Junhong, also stylized as Jing Jun Hong (; born October 13, 1968), is a Chinese-born Singaporean former professional table tennis player. Born in Shanghai, she was a highly ranked player in China before she moved to Singapore with her husband, Singaporean table tennis player Loy Soo Han, whom she married in 1992. She represented Singapore in sporting events starting in the 1990s, and was naturalized as a Singaporean citizen in 1994. After retiring as a player, she served as deputy head coach, then as head coach, of the women's national table tennis team, before being reassigned to leading the country's table tennis youth development program in late 2015. Early life Jing Junhong was born in Shanghai, China on 13 October 1968, the child of a teacher and an engineer. Jing was trained in table tennis in China after being spotted at the age of eight, and by 1988 she had become the nation's third ranked women's table tennis player. That year, she met Singaporean table tennis play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Singapore
Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, bordering the Strait of Malacca to the west, the Singapore Strait to the south, the South China Sea to the east, and the Straits of Johor to the north. The country's territory is composed of one main island, 63 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet; the combined area of these has increased by 25% since the country's independence as a result of extensive land reclamation projects. It has the third highest population density in the world. With a multicultural population and recognising the need to respect cultural identities of the major ethnic groups within the nation, Singapore has four official languages: English, Malay, Mandarin, and Tamil. English is the lingua franca and numerous public services are available only in Eng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1997 Southeast Asian Games
The 1997 Southeast Asian Games ( id, Pesta Olahraga Asia Tenggara 1997), officially known as the 19th Southeast Asian Games ( id, Pesta Olahraga Asia Tenggara ke-19; the 19th SEA Games), was a Southeast Asian multi-sport event held in Jakarta, Indonesia. This was the third time that Indonesia hosted the games. Jakarta also hosted the SEA Games in 1979 and 1987. Around 4,696 athletes from 10 participating nations participated at the games, which featured 440 events in 34 sports. The games was held from 11 to 19 October 1997, although several events had commenced from 5 October 1997. The games was opened by Soeharto, the President of Indonesia at the Gelora Bung Karno Stadium, which was then known at the time as Senayan Sports Stadium. The final medal tally was led by hosts Indonesia, followed by Thailand and Malaysia. Several Games and National Records were broken during the games. The games were deemed generally successful with the rising standard of competition amongst the Sou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships
The Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships was born at a meeting of Commonwealth delegates in Munich at the 1969 World Championships. Prior to inclusion in the Commonwealth Games proper in 2002, 15 Commonwealth Championships have taken place since 1971. Venues # 1971 — Singapore — Singapore Badminton Stadium (20 March to 25 March) # 1973 — Cardiff, Wales — National Sports Centre (26 March to 1 April) # 1975 — Melbourne, Australia — Town Hall (25 January to 31 January) # 1977 — St Peter Port, Guernsey — Beau Sejour Leisure Centre (16 March to 22 March) # 1979 — Edinburgh, Scotland — Meadowbank Sports Centre (12 April to 18 April) # 1982 — Bombay, India — Temporary stadium on cricket pitch at Khar Gymkhana (3 February to 9 February) # 1983 — Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia — Stadium Negara (17 April to 23 April) # 1985 — Douglas, Isle of Man — Palace Lido Ballroom (17 March to 23 March) # 1989 — Cardiff, Wales — National Sports Centre (20 March to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deng Yaping
Deng Yaping (; born February 6, 1973) is a Chinese table tennis player, who won eighteen world championships including four Olympic championships between 1989 and 1997. She is regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of the sport. Early life and education Deng was born in Zhengzhou, Henan, on February 6, 1973. Career Deng began playing table tennis at age of five, and four years later she won the provincial junior championship. She was age 13 when she won her first national championship. Despite her success, she was initially denied a spot on the national team because she was so short (she stood only 1.5 metres feet 11 inchestall). She was finally included on the national team in 1988. She teamed with Qiao Hong to win her first world championship title in the women's doubles competition in 1989. Two years later in 1991, Deng won her first singles world championship. At the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, she won a gold medal in both the sing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gothenburg
Gothenburg (; abbreviated Gbg; sv, Göteborg ) is the second-largest city in Sweden, fifth-largest in the Nordic countries, and capital of the Västra Götaland County. It is situated by the Kattegat, on the west coast of Sweden, and has a population of approximately 590,000 in the city proper and about 1.1 million inhabitants in the metropolitan area. Gothenburg was founded as a heavily fortified, primarily Dutch, trading colony, by royal charter in 1621 by King Gustavus Adolphus. In addition to the generous privileges (e.g. tax relaxation) given to his Dutch allies from the ongoing Thirty Years' War, the king also attracted significant numbers of his German and Scottish allies to populate his only town on the western coast. At a key strategic location at the mouth of the Göta älv, where Scandinavia's largest drainage basin enters the sea, the Port of Gothenburg is now the largest port in the Nordic countries. Gothenburg is home to many students, as the city includes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1993 World Table Tennis Championships
The 1993 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Göteborg from May 11 to May 23, 1993. Results Team Individual References External linksITTF Museum {{World Table Tennis Championships World Table Tennis Championships World Table Tennis Championships World Table Tennis Championships The World Table Tennis Championships are table tennis competitions sanctioned by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). The World Championships have been held since 1926, biennially since 1957. Five individual events, which include m ... Table tennis competitions in Sweden International sports competitions in Gothenburg 1990s in Gothenburg May 1993 sports events in Europe International table tennis competitions hosted by Sweden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Singapore Women's Hall Of Fame
The Singapore Women's Hall of Fame is a virtual hall of fame that honors and documents the lives of historically significant women in Singapore. The hall is the creation of the Singapore Council of Women's Organisations (SCWO), and grew out of an earlier nine-member wall of fame that the organization created in 2005. Categories of achievement The Hall recognizes women in thirteen categories of achievement: History The hall of fame was launched on 14 March 2014, with 108 initial inductees. A five-person selection committee headed by Ambassador Tommy Koh selected the initial inductees from over 200 nominees; the committee took over a year to make its selections. President of Singapore Tony Tan and his wife Mary Tan – a patron of the Singapore Council of Women's Organisations – were the guests of honor at the launch, and presented some of the awards to the recipients at the launch gala. Eleven additional women were inducted in 2015, in a ceremony on International Women's Da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sports Reference
Sports Reference, LLC, is an American company which operates several sports-related websites, including Sports-Reference.com, Baseball-Reference.com for baseball, Basketball-Reference.com for basketball, Hockey-Reference.com for ice hockey, Pro-Football-Reference.com for American football, and FBref.com for association football (soccer). They also operate a subscription based service for statistics, called Stathead. Between 2008 and 2020, Sports Reference also provided pages for Olympic Games and its competitors. Description The site also includes sections on college football, college basketball and the Olympics. The sites attempt a comprehensive approach to sports data. For example, Baseball-Reference contains more than 100,000 box scores and Pro-Football-Reference contains data on every scoring play in the National Football League since . The company, which is based in the Mount Airy neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was founded as Sports Reference in 2004 and was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loy Soo Han
Loy or Loys is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name: *Loy Allen Bowlin (1909–1995), outsider artist *Loy Allen Jr. (born 1966), former NASCAR driver *Loy Hanning, Major League Baseball pitcher in 1939 and 1942 *Loy W. Henderson (1892–1986), United States Foreign Service Officer *Loy Hering, (c. 1484–1564), German Renaissance sculptor *Loy Mendonsa, Indian film singer *Loy Petersen (born 1945), retired American professional basketball player *Loy Vaught (born 1968), retired American basketball player * Loy F. Weaver (born 1942), politician from Louisiana, USA *Loys of Gruuthuse (c. 1422–1492), better known as Lewis de Bruges, lord of Gruuthuse *Loys Louis Bourgeois (composer) (c. 1510–1560), French composer and music theorist of the Renaissance *Loÿs Delteil (1869–1927), French engraver and lithographer, publisher, dealer, and art historian Surname: *Angie Loy (born 1982), American field hockey forward * Brendan Loy, Am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jing (surname)
Jing is an East Asian surname of Chinese origin. It is also the pinyin romanization of a number of less-common names including Jīng (), Jīng (), Jìng ( t , s ), Jǐng (), and Jǐng (). Surname 景 (Jǐng) * Jing Junhai (景俊海; 1960-) Chinese politician, serving since 2018 as the Governor of Jilin * Jing Haipeng (景海鹏, 1966-) Chinese pilot and astronaut selected as part of the Shenzhou program. Surname 井 (Jǐng) * Jing Boran (井柏然; 1989-), Chinese actor and singer * Jing Junhong (井浚泓, 1968-), Chinese former professional table tennis player * Jing Yuexiu (井岳秀, 1878-1936), Chinese Warlord of Shaanxi during Warlord Era Surname 经 (Jīng) * Jing Shuping (Chinese: 经叔平, 1918 – 2009), Chinese businessman and banker Surname 荊 (Jīng) * Jing Ke (荊軻, ? – 227 BC) a retainer of Crown Prince Dan of the Yan state and renowned for his failed assassination attempt of King Zheng of the Qin state See also * '' Jing: King of Bandits'', Jap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Table Tennis At The 2003 Southeast Asian Games
Table tennis at the 22nd SEA Games was held at the Hai Duong Competition Hall, Hanoi, Vietnam from 6 to 12 December 2003. Medalists Medal summary See also * Table tennis at the 2003 ASEAN Para Games References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Table tennis at the 2003 SEA Games 2003 Southeast Asian Games The Southeast Asian Games, also known as the SEA Games, is a biennial multi-sport event involving participants from the current 11 countries of Southeast Asia. The games are under the regulation of the Southeast Asian Games Federation with supe ... Table tennis competitions in Vietnam 2003 SEA Games events Hanoi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2003 Southeast Asian Games
The 2003 Southeast Asian Games ( vi, Đại hội Thể thao Đông Nam Á 2003), officially known as the 22nd Southeast Asian Games and also known as Vietnam 2003, was a Southeast Asian multi-sport event held from 5 to 13 December 2003 in Hanoi, Vietnam. This was the first time that Vietnam had staged the SEA Games, and it saw East Timor, which had just gained independence in 2002; although not being an ASEAN ASEAN ( , ), officially the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, is a political and economic union of 10 member states in Southeast Asia, which promotes intergovernmental cooperation and facilitates economic, political, security, milita ... member and despite its geographical location closer to the Pacific archipelago than the Asian continent, making its debut at the games. The games was held from 5 to 13 December 2003, although several events had commenced from 29 November 2003. Around 5,000 athletes from 11 participating nations participated at the games, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
