Wang Chuanyao (, March, 1931 – November 19, 2007) was a male

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 from

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 ...

. From 1956 to 1961 he won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events 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 ...

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Chinese male table tennis players 1931 births 2007 deaths Sportspeople from Yangzhou Table tennis players from Jiangsu {{PRChina-tabletennis-bio-stub