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VI.3 Table Tennis – leading sportsmen
(Polish team)
Timo Boll
(born 8 March 1981) is a German professional table tennis player who currently
plays with Borussia Düsseldorf and is ranked second in the German Table Tennis
National League. He is currently 4th in the ITTF world rankings as of November
2017, having previously been number one.
Wáng Hào
(Chinese: 王皓; pinyin: Wáng Hào; Wang Hao; born 15 December 1983) is a
retired Chinese table tennis player. He became the World Champion in Men's
Singles in Yokohama, Japan in May 2009, defeating 3-time World Champion
Wang Liqin 4–0. Other notable accomplishments include being a 3-time World
Cup Champion in 2007, 2008 and 2010, a singles silver medalist at the 2004
Summer Olympics, 2008 Summer Olympics and the 2012 Summer Olympics. In
January 2010, he was replaced by Ma Long as the #1 rank on the official ITTF
world rankings. He was previously ranked #1 on the official ITTF world rankings
for 27 consecutive months, from October 2007 to December 2009. In April 2011,
he was again the top ranked male player in the world. He is known to execute
the Reverse Penhold Backhand (RPB) with exceptional skill.
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