Cai Zhenhua (; ; born 3 September 1961 in

Wuxi Wuxi (, ) is a city in southern Jiangsu province, eastern China, by car to the northwest of downtown Shanghai, between Changzhou and Suzhou. In 2017 it had a population of 3,542,319, with 6,553,000 living in the entire prefecture-level city ar ...

Jiangsu Jiangsu (; ; pinyin: Jiāngsū, Postal romanization, alternatively romanized as Kiangsu or Chiangsu) is an Eastern China, eastern coastal Provinces of the People's Republic of China, province of the China, People's Republic of China. It is o ...

) is a male former

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

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

. He is the vice Chairman and the Secretary of the Secretariat of the

All-China Federation of Trade Unions The All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) is the national trade union center of the People's Republic of China. It is the largest trade union in the world with 302 million members in 1,713,000 primary trade union organizations. The ACFTU ...

, the former deputy Director of

State General Administration of Sports The General Administration of Sport () is the government agency responsible for sports in mainland China. It is subordinate to the State Council of the People's Republic of China. It also administers the All-China Sports Federation and Chinese Oly ...

, and the president of the

Chinese Football Association The Chinese Football Association (CFA) is the governing body for association football, beach soccer and futsal in People's Republic of China (Mainland China). The CFA organizes the men's and women's national teams and administers the country's ...

from 2014 to 2019 and is replaced by

Chen Xuyuan Chen Xuyuan (陈戌源, born 1956) is the president of Chinese Football Association assumed office in August 2019. He was president of Shanghai International Port Group before being elected to served as CFA president. Election He was elected in ...

, the

Chinese Badminton Association Chinese Badminton Association () is a national non-governmental, non-profit sports organisation in China. It represents China in the Badminton World Federation (BWF) and the Badminton Asia Confederation (BAC) as well as the sport of badminton in ...

and the

Chinese Table Tennis Association Chinese Table Tennis Association () is a national non-governmental, nonprofit sports organization in the People's Republic of China. It represents China in the International Table Tennis Federation and the Asian Table Tennis Union, as well as the ta ...

Career

From 1980 to 1985 he won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the

Asian Table Tennis Championships The Asian Table Tennis Championships is a biennial table tennis tournament regarded as continental championships by International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). From 1952 to 1972, the tournament was organized by the Table Tennis Federation of Asi ...

and in the

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 men ...

. He worked as the lead coach of the Chinese men's team from 1991 to 2004, during which he played an important role in leading the Chinese team to its comeback. In April 2007, Cai became the deputy Director of

. He was elected as the president of the

on 18 February 2009 and the president of the

on 27 February 2009. On 21 January 2014, he was elected as the president of the

. In September 2018, Cai was appointed as the vice Chairman and the Secretary of the Secretariat of the

References

1961 births Living people Chinese male table tennis players Sportspeople from Wuxi Badminton in China Asian Games medalists in table tennis Table tennis players at the 1982 Asian Games Medalists at the 1982 Asian Games Asian Games gold medalists for China Table tennis players from Jiangsu {{PRChina-tabletennis-bio-stub Nanjing Sport Institute alumni Chinese football administrators