Cheung Yuk (; born October 28, 1981, in
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 ...
,
People's Republic of 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 ...
) is a Hong Kong table tennis player. As of February 2013, Cheung was ranked no. 80 in the world by the
International Table Tennis Federation
The International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) is the governing body for all national 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 p ...
(ITTF).
Cheung is also left-handed, and uses the offensive, shakehand grip.
Table tennis career
Representing his adopted nation
Hong Kong
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, Cheung made his official debut at the
2000 Summer Olympics
The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 (Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from 1 ...
in
Sydney
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, where he competed in both the singles and doubles tournament. For his first event, the
men's doubles, Cheung and his partner
Leung Chu Yan won the preliminary pool round against Greece's
Kalinikos Kreanga and
Ntaniel Tsiokas, and Australia's
Simon Gerada and Mark Smythe, attaining two victories, four games, and a total score of 98 points. The Hong Kong pair progressed to the knock-out stage, but they narrowly lost to the South Korean duo
Ryu Seung-Min
Ryu Seung-min (; born August 5, 1982 in Seoul, South Korea) is a Korean people, Korean table tennis player who won the gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the men's singles competition. His opponent was Wang Hao (table tennis, born 1983 ...
and
Lee Chul-Seung, with a set score of 2–3. In the
men's singles, Cheung defeated Brazil's
Hugo Hoyama
Hugo Hoyama (born May 9, 1969) is a retired Brazilian table tennis player of Japanese origin who has won several medals in single, double and team events in the Latin American Table Tennis Championships.
Along with Gustavo Tsuboi and Thiago M ...
and Canada's Kurt Liu for a spot on the knock-out stage, by placing first in the preliminary pool round, with two victories and a score of 182 points. Cheung, however, lost the first round for the second time to Japan's Koji Matsushita, receiving a unanimous set score of 0–3.
At the
2002 Asian Games
The 2002 Asian Games ( ko, 2002년 아시아 경기대회/2002년 아시안 게임, Icheoni-nyeon Asia gyeonggi daehoe/Icheoni-nyeon Asian Geim), officially known as the XIV Asian Games ( ko, 제14회 아시아 경기대회/제14회 아시안 ...
in
Busan, South Korea
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, Cheung and his partner
Tie Ya Na
Tie Ya Na or Tie Yana (; born 13 May 1979) is a table tennis player from Hong Kong, China who won two silver medals at the 2006 Asian Games in the singles and doubles competitions.
Tie played for China in the Universiade before emigrating to ...
defeated the host nation's
Ryu Seung-Min
Ryu Seung-min (; born August 5, 1982 in Seoul, South Korea) is a Korean people, Korean table tennis player who won the gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the men's singles competition. His opponent was Wang Hao (table tennis, born 1983 ...
and
Ryu Ji-Hae
Ryu Ji-Hye (Hangul: 류지혜, Hanja: 柳智恵) (born February 10, 1976 in Busan, South Korea) is a former female table tennis player from South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in Eas ...
for the gold medal in the mixed doubles, with a sudden death set score of 3–4.
Two years later, Cheung qualified for the
men's doubles at the
2004 Summer Olympics
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in
Athens
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, by being selected as one of the top 8 seeded teams chosen from ITTF. Reuniting with his partner Leung Chu Yan, Cheung lost the third preliminary round match of the
men's doubles to Russian duo
Dmitry Mazunov
Dmitry Vyacheslavovich Mazunov (russian: Дмитрий Вячеславович Мазунов; born 12 May 1971 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russian SFSR) is a Russian table tennis player. He won a bronze medal, along with his brother Andrey Mazunov, i ...
and
Alexei Smirnov, with a unanimous set score of 0–4.
Eight years after competing in his last Olympics, Cheung qualified for his third Hong Kong team, as a 39-year-old, at the
2008 Summer Olympics
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in
Beijing
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, by claiming the men's singles title from the Final World Qualification Tournament in
Budapest, Hungary
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. Cheung joined with his fellow players and former rivals
Ko Lai Chak
Ko Lai-chak (; born 10 May 1976 in Chancheng, Foshan, Guangdong, China) is a table tennis player from Hong Kong.
He won a silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the men's doubles alongside Li Ching. At the 2006 Asian Games
6 (six) ...
and
Li Ching for the inaugural
men's team event. He and his team placed second in the preliminary pool round, earning a total of six points, two victories (against Nigeria and Russia), and a single defeat from the Japanese trio
Yo Kan
, or Han Yang in Chinese, is a Japanese table tennis player of Chinese origin. He won two gold medals in the men's singles at the 2007 ITTF Pro Tour series in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, and in Santiago, Chile. As of December 2012, Kan is ranked no ...
,
Seiya Kishikawa
is a male Japanese table tennis player. He paired with Jun Mizutani in men's doubles competitions, the duo won four consecutive national titles from 2007 to 2010. They also won a bronze medal at the 2009 World Championships and two titles at th ...
, and
Jun Mizutani
is a retired Japanese table tennis player. He became the youngest Japanese national champion at the age of 17. His consecutive singles titles at the national championships from 2007 to 2011 made him the first man to win the event five times in ...
. The Hong Kong team offered another shot for the bronze medal by defeating Chinese Taipei in the first play-off. Cheung and his team, however, finished only in fifth place, after losing out their second play-off to South Korea (led by defending Olympic singles champion
Ryu Seung-Min
Ryu Seung-min (; born August 5, 1982 in Seoul, South Korea) is a Korean people, Korean table tennis player who won the gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the men's singles competition. His opponent was Wang Hao (table tennis, born 1983 ...
), receiving a final set score of 1–3.
Being chosen as one of the top 16 seeded players, Cheung received three byes in the preliminary round of his second event, the
men's singles, before losing out to Swedish table tennis player and six-time Olympian
Jörgen Persson
Jörgen Persson (born 22 April 1966, in Halmstad, Sweden) is a Swedish table tennis player. In two memorable World Table Tennis Championships finals he faced fellow Swede Jan-Ove Waldner in 1989 and 1991, losing the former and winning the latter ...
, with a set score of 1–4.
At the
2010 Asian Games
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in
Guangzhou, China
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, Cheung and his new partner
Jiang Huajun captured the silver medal in the mixed doubles, with a set score of 1–4, losing out to the host nation's duo
Xu Xin and
Guo Yan
Guo Yan (, born June 24, 1982 in Beijing, China) is a Chinese table tennis player. Two-time winner of World Cup in 2006 and 2010. In February 2011, she ranked 2nd in the ITTF world ranking.
Career records
Singles (as of February 3, 2011)
*Worl ...
.
References
External links
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NBC Olympics Profile
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1981 births
Asian Games medalists in table tennis
Hong Kong male table tennis players
Living people
Olympic table tennis players for Hong Kong
Table tennis players from Jiangsu
Table tennis players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Table tennis players at the 2002 Asian Games
Table tennis players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Table tennis players at the 2006 Asian Games
Table tennis players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Table tennis players at the 2010 Asian Games
Table tennis players at the 2014 Asian Games
Asian Games gold medalists for Hong Kong
Asian Games silver medalists for Hong Kong
Asian Games bronze medalists for Hong Kong
Medalists at the 2002 Asian Games
Medalists at the 2006 Asian Games
Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games
Sportspeople from Wuxi
World Table Tennis Championships medalists