Li Zhenshi
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| Nationality |  China | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 29 October 1949 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Table tennis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Li Zhenshi (Chinese: 李振恃; pinyin: Lǐ Zhènshì; Wade–Giles: Li3 Chen4-shih4), is a Chinese table tennis player and coach.
Table tennis career
[edit]From 1974 to 1981, Zhenshi won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the Asian Table Tennis Championships and in the World Table Tennis Championships.[1]
His nine World Championship medals[2][3] included four gold medals; two in the team event and two in the doubles with Liang Geliang and Cai Zhenhua.[4][5] He also won two English Open titles. He was inducted into the USA Table Tennis Hall of Fame in 2019.[6]
Personal life
[edit]After retiring from competitive playing, Zhenshi and his wife Zhang Li moved to the US, where they now direct the World Champions Table Tennis Academy in San Jose, California.[7]
Zhenshi was the coach of the US men's national team which won a bronze medal at the 1995 World Team Cup. He also coached Team USA at the 1996 Olympics.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ "ITTF_Database". Archived from the original on 2014-02-19. Retrieved 2013-02-02.
- ↑ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123.
- ↑ "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
- ↑ Montague, Trevor (2004). A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700. The Bath Press. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
- ↑ Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian (1987). The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pages 309-312. Guinness Superlatives. ISBN 0-85112-492-5.
- ↑ "Zhenshi Li – US Table Tennis Hall of Fame Profile". USA Table Tennis Hall of Fame. Retrieved 2025-06-15.
- ↑ "World Champions Table Tennis Academy". www.butterflyonline.com. Archived from the original on 2014-01-21.
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