Hu Heming (born 21 March 1994) is an Australian

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 who has competed at the

2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics ( pt, Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad ( pt, Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and also known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 20 ...

and

2020 Summer Olympics The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the ...

Early life

Hu started playing table tennis in his garage when he was six years old. He moved to China at age 16 to pursue his table tennis career. Hu attended

Lyndale Secondary College Lyndale Secondary College is a co-educational government secondary school located in Dandenong North, Victoria, Australia. It has a student enrolment of approximately 1,200, and is known as one of the largest single campus schools in Victoria. T ...

Dandenong North, Victoria Dandenong North is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 27 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Greater Dandenong local government area. Dandenong North recorded a population of 22,550 a ...

Career

At the

, the team of

Chris Yan Chris Yan (born 9 December 1988 in Xi’an, China) is an Australian table tennis player. He competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the men's singles event, in which he was eliminated in the preliminary round by Aleksandar Karakašević, and as ...

, David Powell and Heming advanced to the round of 16 where they were beaten by Japan 3–0. His highest Men's World Ranking was 61 in September 2019, and number 1 in the Australia and Oceania Region for 4 years (2017-2021), before he announced his retirement on March 21, 2022. Heming represented Australia at the 2014 & 2018 Commonwealth Games. He is the 2018 & and 2019 Oceania Cup Champion and qualified to represent Australia at the 2018 and 2019 Men's World Cups.

References

1994 births Living people Australian male table tennis players Australian people of Chinese descent Sportspeople of Chinese descent Olympic table tennis players for Australia Table tennis players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Table tennis players at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games competitors for Australia Table tennis players at the 2020 Summer Olympics 21st-century Australian people Place of birth missing (living people) People educated at Lyndale Secondary College {{Australia-tabletennis-bio-stub