Cao Yanhua () also Tsao Yen-hua is a Chinese former international

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.

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 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 ...

. The eleven World Championship medals included seven

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s; two in the singles at the

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and

1985 World Table Tennis Championships The 1985 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Göteborg from March 28 to April 7, 1985. Results Team Individual References External linksITTF Museum {{World Table Tennis Championships World Table Tennis Championships World Tab ...

, three in the team, one in the mixed doubles with

Cai Zhenhua Cai Zhenhua (; ; born 3 September 1961 in Wuxi, Jiangsu) is a male former table tennis player from China. He is the vice Chairman and the Secretary of the Secretariat of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, the former deputy Director ...

and one in the women's doubles with

Zhang Deying Zhang Deying (, born July 1, 1953) also Chang Te-ying, is a former international table tennis player from China. Table tennis career From 1977 to 1981 she won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the Asian Table Tennis Champion ...

References

Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Chinese female table tennis players Asian Games medalists in table tennis Table tennis players at the 1982 Asian Games Table tennis players at the 1978 Asian Games Table tennis players from Shanghai Medalists at the 1978 Asian Games Medalists at the 1982 Asian Games Asian Games gold medalists for China Asian Games bronze medalists for China {{PRChina-tabletennis-bio-stub

Career

See also

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