Richard Pugoy Gonzales (born March 31, 1971) is a Filipino

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 and the No. 1 ranked player in the Philippines as of January 2014.

Career

Gonzales is a multiple medalist at the Southeast Asian Games in Table Tennis, winning Silver both at the

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and the recently concluded

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edition, and bronze at the

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and

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editions all in Men's Singles Event. He won bronze along with Rodel Valle at the men's double event of the 2011 edition. Along with John Russel Misal, Gonzales clinched a silver at the men's double of the 2021 edition. Aside from the Southeast Asian Games, he also reigned at the 2005 Southeast Asian Table Tennis Championship winning Gold. Outside Southeast Asia, Gonzales has represented the Philippines at the 2014 World Championship of Ping Pong winning bronze after bowing out to

Maxim Shmyrev Maxim Shmyrev (born 30 November 1971) is a male table tennis player from Moscow, Russia. He is a multiple Russian National Champion in table tennis, winning Men Singles title five times. He is also a three-times world champion of ping-pong (sandp ...

in the semifinal. Gonzales along with

Ian Lariba Ian Nietes Lariba (October 13, 1994 – September 2, 2018) was a Filipino table tennis player. She represented the Philippines in international tournaments and competed in the women's singles event at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Early life and e ...

were the Philippines' representatives at the

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