Alexander Igorevich Shibaev (russian: Александр Игоревич Шибаев; born 9 September 1990 in

Yaroslavl Yaroslavl ( rus, Ярослáвль, p=jɪrɐˈsɫavlʲ) is a city and the administrative center of Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia, located northeast of Moscow. The historic part of the city is a World Heritage Site, and is located at the confluenc ...

) is a Russian

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player. He won the doubles crown with Alexey Smirnov at the 2010 Slovenian Open. In 2011, he won a silver medal with

Kirill Skachkov Kirill Sergeyevich Skachkov (russian: Кирилл Сергеевич Скачков; born 6 August 1987 in Novokuznetsk) is a Russian table tennis player. In 2011 he won a silver medal in the doubles event in the Table Tennis European Champion ...

in the double event at the European Championships. His first appearance in a singles final on the

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was at the 2011 Polish Open. In 2012, he made it to the semifinals at the Japan Open by defeating

Seiya Kishikawa is a male Japanese table tennis player. He paired with 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 ...

Koki Niwa is a Japanese male table tennis player. He is the gold medalist at the 2010 Youth Olympics and he won the World Junior Table Tennis Championships in 2010 (doubles) and 2011 (singles). On 21 April 2012, he defeated Ma Long of China, World Rank ...

and

Joo Se-Hyuk Joo Sae-hyuk (, ; born 20 January 1980) is a South Korean table tennis player. As a singles player, he was a silver medalist at the 2003 World Table Tennis Championships, a bronze medalist at the 2011 Table Tennis World Cup, and a bronze medali ...

consecutively. He also competed at the

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and 2016 Summer Olympics.

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