Liu Guodong (born April 29, 1974) is a

Chinese Chinese can refer to: * Something related to China * Chinese people, people of Chinese nationality, citizenship, and/or ethnicity **''Zhonghua minzu'', the supra-ethnic concept of the Chinese nation ** List of ethnic groups in China, people of ...

table tennis coach, currently working for the Hong Kong Table Tennis Association. Under his coaching, the

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, bor ...

women's

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 ...

team gained a silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Career

His coaching career began in Mexico, where he served as an apprentice coach of China's national team, under his younger brother

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. He was appointed by the Singapore Table Tennis Association in 2006. At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, he coached the women's team, consisting of

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and

Wang Yuegu Wang Yuegu (, ; born 10 June 1980) is a retired Chinese-born Singaporean table tennis player who was ranked among the top ten players in the world. Wang made her inaugural appearance as a Singaporean table tennis player on the International Ta ...

. The team won a silver medal, being beaten in the final by China. In October 2008, he turned down the offer of a renewed contract with the Singapore Table Tennis Association, describing the proposed salary as 'insulting'. Instead, he signed a contract with the Indonesian Table Tennis Federation.

References

1974 births Living people Chinese male table tennis players People from Xinxiang Chinese emigrants to Singapore Singaporean sportspeople of Chinese descent Singaporean male table tennis players Table tennis players from Henan Naturalised table tennis players Chinese table tennis coaches {{Singapore-tabletennis-bio-stub