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Table Tennis At The 2002 Commonwealth Games ...
The inaugural table tennis competition at the 2002 Commonwealth Games took place in Manchester, England from 25 July - 4 August 2002. Medallists Table tennis medal table by country Men's singles Women's singles Men's doubles Women's doubles Mixed doubles Men's Team Gold medal match Women's Team Gold medal match References {{Sports at the 2002 Commonwealth Games 2002 Commonwealth Games events 2002 Commonwealth A commonwealth is a traditional English term for a political community founded for the common good. Historically, it has been synonymous with "republic". The noun "commonwealth", meaning "public welfare, general good or advantage", dates from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gareth Herbert
Gareth Herbert is a male former international table tennis player from England. Table tennis career He represented England at two World Table Tennis Championships in the Swaythling Cup (men's team event) from 2000-2001. He won a gold medal at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in the doubles with Andrew Baggaley. He also won three English National Table Tennis Championships titles. Style of play A forehand-oriented player, Herbert was notable for his skill as a server. See also * List of England players at the World Team Table Tennis Championships List of England players at the World Team Table Tennis Championships The tables below are the English representatives for the men's and women's teams during the World Table Tennis Championships The World Table Tennis Championships are table tenni ... References English male table tennis players 1980 births Living people Black British sportsmen Commonwealth Games gold medallists for England Table tennis players at the 2002 Commo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry Young (table Tennis)
Terry Young is a male international table tennis player from England. Table tennis career He represented England in the 2000 World Table Tennis Championships and 2001 World Table Tennis Championships in the Swaythling Cup (men's team event). He won a Commonwealth Games team gold in 2002 and has won two English National Table Tennis Championships doubles titles in 2003 and 2005. See also * List of England players at the World Team Table Tennis Championships List of England players at the World Team Table Tennis Championships The tables below are the English representatives for the men's and women's teams during the World Table Tennis Championships The World Table Tennis Championships are table tenni ... References Living people 1978 births English male table tennis players Commonwealth Games gold medallists for England Table tennis players at the 2002 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games medallists in table tennis Medallists at the 2002 Commonwealth Games { ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Syed
Matthew Philip Syed (born 2 November 1970) is a British journalist, author, broadcaster and former table tennis player. He competed as an English table tennis international, and was the English number one for many years. He was three times the men's singles champion at the Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships (in 1997, 2000 and 2001), and also competed for Great Britain in two Olympic Games, at Barcelona in 1992 and at Sydney in 2000. He also embarked on a journalism career, having worked for ''The Times'' newspaper since 1999. He has published six books, ''Bounce'' in 2010, ''Black Box Thinking'' in 2015, ''The Greatest'' in 2017, ''You Are Awesome'' in 2018, ''Rebel Ideas: The Power of Diverse Thinking'' in 2019, and ''Dare to be You'' in 2020. Early life Syed was born in Reading, Berkshire. His father, Abbas Syed, was a Pakistani immigrant to Britain who converted from Shia Islam to Christianity, and his mother is Welsh. He attended the Maiden Erlegh School in Earley n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Perry (table Tennis)
Alex Perry is a male former international table tennis player from England. Table tennis career He represented England at three World Table Tennis Championships in the Swaythling Cup (men's team event) from 1993-2000. He won 14 English National Table Tennis Championships titles. Personal life He married fellow English international Nicola Deaton. See also * List of England players at the World Team Table Tennis Championships List of England players at the World Team Table Tennis Championships The tables below are the English representatives for the men's and women's teams during the World Table Tennis Championships The World Table Tennis Championships are table tenni ... References English male table tennis players 1980 births Living people Commonwealth Games medallists in table tennis Commonwealth Games gold medallists for England Table tennis players at the 2002 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 2002 Commonwealth Games {{UK-tabletennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Jackson (table Tennis)
Peter Stuart Jackson (born 22 October 1964) is a table tennis player representative of New Zealand. He competed in three Summer Olympics and two Commonwealth Games, winning a bronze medal at 2002 Commonwealth Games. Career Jackson was born in Papakura, New Zealand. His first Olympic participation came in 1988 in Seoul. Here, he competed in the men's doubles event, but as the team only won one match and lost six in the preliminary round, they were eliminated from the competition on an early stage. At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Jackson competed in both the men's doubles and singles events. In the doubles event, the team placed fourth in the group stage after losing all matches, and in the singles event, he placed third in his group after winning one match and losing two. Neither placement was good enough to advance. At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia Jackson participated as an official. His last Olympic participation came at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Syd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brett Clarke (table Tennis)
Brett Clarke (born 27 October 1972) is an Australian Olympic table tennis Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ... player from Melbourne. He won the silver medal at the 2002 Manchester Commonwealth Games in the Mixed Doubles event. He was appointed as head coach of the Australian men's table tennis team in 2017. References 1972 births Living people Olympic table tennis players for Australia Table tennis players at the 2000 Summer Olympics Table tennis players at the 2002 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games medallists in table tennis Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Australia Australian male table tennis players 20th-century Australian people 21st-century Australian people Medallists at the 2002 Commonwealth Games Place of birth missing (living ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miao Miao
Miao Miao () (born 14 January 1981, Tianjin, China) is an Australian table tennis player who represented Australia at the Sydney, Athens, Beijing and London Olympic Games. Her best Olympic result was the quarter finals of the doubles tournament in Sydney. At the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, she won a silver medal in the teams competition and a bronze medal in the doubles with Jian Fang Lay. Her parents immigrated to Poland when she was a child, and later to Australia. She is the highest ranked Australian table tennis player at the time of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Virtually unknown in Australia she is well known in China. Miao Miao is a right-handed, fast attack shakehand player (height: ). She is coached by her father Miao Cang Sheng (苗仓生) who was a well known coach in China but then became the coach of the Polish women table tennis team in 1994. Miao Miao became the Polish women doubles champion in 1996. Miao Miao migrated to Australia with her father in 1997. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lay Jian Fang
Jian Fang Lay-Hong (; born 6 March 1973), is a right-handed Chinese-born Australian ladies table tennis player. She plays penhold, with a long pimple rubber at one side for use of attacking, blocking as well as chopping. She is currently number 1 female player in Australia, as well as number 141 in the world. At the 2020 Tokyo Olympics Lay-Hong became the first Australian woman to compete at 6 Olympic games. She won her first 3 matches but then lost in Round 3 to Han Ying of Germany 4-0 so did not advance to the round of 16. She also competed with Michelle Bromley and Melissa Tapper in the women's team event but were defeated by Germany 3-0 in the round of 16. Australia at the 2020 Summer Olympics details the results in depth. Born in Wenzhou, China, Lay moved to Melbourne in the early 1990s and eventually became a three-time Victorian champion as well as winning several titles in other Victorian tournaments. She was selected in the Australian national team in 1994 and partic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhang Xue Ling
Zhang Xueling (; born 7 May 1983 in Beijing, China) is a Chinese-born Singaporean table tennis player. Zhang started playing table tennis at the age of 6 and made her first International appearance in 1999. She won four gold medals at the 2005 Southeast Asian Games, helping Singapore to sweep the women events as well as the mixed doubles. Zhang has defeated her higher-ranked fellow Singaporean, Li Jiawei, 3 times to date: once at the 2005 Southeast Asian Games in the women's singles finals; another at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in the mixed doubles finals partnered by Cai Xiaoli against Li and her teammate, Yang Zi; and in the women's singles finals in the same Games, winning four out of five gold medals for the country. In the Athens Olympics 2004, she went to the Games with no other target than to perform at her best. Zhang Xueling played her game and surprised the nation when she defeated 14th seed, Korea's Lee Eun Sil and Japan's Ai Fujinuma, to secure a position in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Li Karen
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