2007 World Table Tennis Championships
The 2007 World Table Tennis Championships was a table tennis tournament that took place in Zagreb, Croatia from May 21 through to May 27, 2007. China won a clean sweep of all the gold and silver medals.
Medal summary
Medal table
Events
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men's doubles was the 49th edition of the men's doubles championship. The event took place in Zagreb, Croatia between May 21 and May 27, 2007.Chen Qi and Ma Lin won the title after defeating Wang Hao and
Wang Liqin
Wang Liqin (; born June 18, 1978) is a Chinese table tennis player. He began playing at the age of 6 and was picked for the Chinese men's national squad in 1993 when he was only 15 years old. He holds three majors (3 World Championships). He ha ...
Wang Liqin
Wang Liqin (; born June 18, 1978) is a Chinese table tennis player. He began playing at the age of 6 and was picked for the Chinese men's national squad in 1993 when he was only 15 years old. He holds three majors (3 World Championships). He ha ...
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Timo Boll
Timo Boll (, ; born 8 March 1981) is a German former professional table tennis player. Boll is the most successful German table tennis player of all time, having won several medals at Olympic Games, world cups, and world championships. He was ra ...
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Christian Süß
Christian Süß (born 28 July 1985 in Ahlen, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German table tennis player.
At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Süß won the silver medal as part of the German men's team, together with Timo Boll
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Ko Lai Chak
Ko Lai-chak (; born 10 May 1976 in Chancheng, Foshan, Guangdong, China) is a table tennis player from Hong Kong.
He won a silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the men's doubles alongside Li Ching. At the 2006 Asian Games he won two m ...
Hao Shuai
Hao Shuai (born October 1, 1983 in Tianjin) is a Chinese table tennis player.
Career records
Singles (as of May 13, 2010)
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Ma Long
Ma Long ( zh, s=马龙, p=Mǎ Lóng; born 20 October 1988) is a Chinese professional table tennis player. He is a two-time Olympic champion, three-time World Champion, and three-time World Cup champion in men's singles. Widely regarded as the g ...
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Lee Jung-woo
Lee Jung-woo (; 16 April 1931 – 29 January 2024) was a South Korean lawyer and politician.
Career
He served as Minister of Justice
A justice ministry, ministry of justice, or department of justice, is a ministry or other government agen ...
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Oh Sang-eun
Oh Sang-eun (; ; born April 13, 1977, in Daegu, South Korea) is a South Korean table tennis player. His world ranking had been in the top 10 since the 2005 World Championships in Shanghai until April 2008. His highest ranking was number 5 in ...
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Cheung Yuk
Cheung Yuk (; born 28 October 1981 in Jiangsu, People's Republic of China) is a Hong Kong table tennis player. As of February 2013, Cheung was ranked no. 80 in the world by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). Cheung is also left-ha ...
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Leung Chu Yan
Leung Chu Yan (; born 1979) is a table tennis player from Hong Kong. He competed at the 2000, 2004 and 2012 Summer Olympics
The 2012 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012, were an intern ...
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Aleksandar Karakašević
Aleksandar Karakašević ( sr-cyr, Александар Каракашевић; born 9 December 1975) is a Serbian table tennis player. His powerful backhand has helped him win against some of the top players in the world. He won a bronze medal a ...
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Slobodan Grujić
Slobodan Grujić (born 24 July 1973 in Novi Sad, Serbia, Yugoslavia) is a male Serbian table tennis player. He plays for Fenerbahçe TT since 2007 and also played for ''Novi Sad TT'' in Serbia and ''TTV RE-BAU Gönnern'' in Germany
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Chen Weixing
Chen Weixing (; born April 27, 1972, in Inner Mongolia, China) is an Austrian table tennis player of Chinese origin. He has played for SVS Lower Austria for several years.
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Robert Gardos
Robert Gardos (, ; born 16 January 1979 in Budapest) is a Hungary, Hungarian-born Austrian table tennis player, European Champion and Olympic participant. He plays for the French club Chartres ASTT.
Since the opening in 2011, Robert Gardos prac ...
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Gao Ning
Gao Ning (; born 11 October 1982) is a retired Chinese-born Singaporean table tennis player. He is currently appointed as the Singapore Table Tennis National Coach for men. He is considered Singapore's best male player with a world ranking of 3 ...
Fedor Kuzmin
Fyodor Sergeyevich Kuzmin (also ''Fedor Kuzmin'', ; born 17 April 1983 in Rybinsk, Russian SFSR) is a Russian table tennis player. Kuzmin won a gold medal in the men's singles at the 2005 ITTF Pro Tour series in Velenje, Slovenia. He also capture ...
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Lucjan Błaszczyk
Lucjan Błaszczyk (born 28 December 1974 in Lwówek Śląski) is a Polish people, Polish table tennis player. He competed for Poland at the Olympic Games in 1996 Summer Olympics, Atlanta, 2000 Summer Olympics, Sydney, 2004 Summer Olympics, Athen ...
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Wang Zengyi
Wang Zengyi (born 24 June 1983 in Tianjin, China) is a China, Chinese-Poland, Polish table tennis player. He competed for Poland at the Table tennis at the 2012 Summer Olympics, 2012 Summer Olympics.Lee Jung-sam /
Ryu Seung-min
Ryu Seung-min (; ; born August 5, 1982) is a South Korean table tennis player who won the gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the men's singles competition. His opponent was Wang Hao, a top-seeded player from the Chinese national team. ...
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Michael Maze
Michael Maze (born 1 September 1981) is a professional table tennis player from Faxe, Denmark, in men's singles and doubles. In 2005 he was one of the top five left-handed players in the world. His strength was in his strong forehand loop and lo ...
Joo Sae-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 Table Tennis World Cup, 2011 Table Tennis World C ...
Seiya Kishikawa
is a male Japanese table tennis
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Jun Mizutani
is a retired Japanese table tennis player and Olympic champion. He became the youngest Japanese national champion at the age of 17. He has the distinction of being the first male singles titlist to achieve five consecutive national championship ...