MA Long

Olympic Games

Year	Location	Singles	Team
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	1	1
2012	London, GBR	-	1

World Championships

Year	Location	Singles	Doubles M	Team
2019	Budapest, HUN	1	1	-
2018	Halmstad, SWE	-	-	1
2017	Dusseldorf, GER	1	3R	-
2016	Kuala Lumpur, MAS	-	-	1
2015	Suzhou, CHN	1	2R	-
2014	Tokyo, JPN	-	-	1
2013	Paris, FRA	3	-	-
2012	Dortmund, GER	-	-	1
2011	Rotterdam, NED	3	1	-
2010	Moscow, RUS	-	-	1
2009	Yokohama, JPN	3	2	-
2008	Guangzhou, CHN	-	-	1
2007	Zagreb, CRO	4R	3R	-
2006	Bremen, GER	-	-	1

World Cup

Year	Location	Singles
2020	Weihai, CHN	2
2019	Chengdu, CHN	4
2017	Liege, BEL	3

Asian Championships

Year	Location	Singles	Team
2017	Wuxi, CHN	3R	1

ITTF Finals

Year	Location	Singles
2020	Zhengzhou, CHN	1
2019	Zhengzhou, CHN	2
2016	Doha, QAT	1

ITTF World Tour - Eliminations per phase since 2017

Year	Event	W	RU	SF	QF	L16	L32	L64
2020	Singles	-	1x	-	-	1x	-	-
2020	Doubles M	1x	1x	-	-	-	-	-
2019	Singles	2x	1x	1x	1x	-	-	-
2019	Doubles M	-	2x	-	1x	-	-	-
2018	Singles	2x	-	-	1x	-	3x	-
2018	Doubles M	2x	-	1x	-	1x	-	-
2017	Singles	2x	-	-	-	1x	-	-
2017	Doubles M	1x	-	-	1x	1x	-	-

ITTF World Tour - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location
1	2020	Doubles	Qatar Open	Doha, QAT
1	2019	Singles	China Open	Shenzhen, CHN
1	2019	Singles	Qatar Open	Doha, QAT
1	2018	Singles	China Open	Shenzhen, CHN
1	2018	Singles	German Open	Bremen, GER
1	2018	Doubles	Bulgarian Open	Panagyurishte, BUL
1	2018	Doubles	German Open	Bremen, GER
1	2017	Singles	Japan Open	Tokyo, JPN
1	2017	Singles	Qatar Open	Doha, QAT
1	2017	Doubles	Japan Open	Tokyo, JPN

Legend
W - Winner, RU - Runner-up, SF - Semifinal, QF - Quarterfinal, 4R - 4th Round, 3R - 3rd Round, 2R - 2nd Round, 1R - 1st Round, Prel. Rnd - Preliminary Round, L16 - Last 16, L32 - Last 32, L64 - Last 64, M - Men, W - Women, X - Mixed

Captain Long, The Dictator, The Dragon (olympicchannel.com, 14 Jul 2020; ITTF, 26 Apr 2015)

Reading, listening to music, watching films. (news.cgtn.com, 05 Jul 2020)

Athlete

Shanghai Jiao Tong University, People's Republic of China

Mandarin

Beijing [People's Republic of China]

Qin Zhijian [national], CHN

Right (ITTF, 02 Aug 2016)

2005 for People's Republic of China (gz.o.cn, 11 Jan 2013)

He sprained his neck in August 2020 and was unable to play at the 2020 Preparation for China Olympic Simulation Games in Lingshui, People's Republic of China. (sports.sina.com.cn, 11 Aug 2020)

He underwent knee surgery in August 2019. (thepaper.cn, 24 Nov 2020)

In 2018 he suffered a left knee injury that caused him to miss about six months of competition. He returned to action in early 2019. (ittf.com, 02 Nov 2018; sohu.com, 01 Nov 2018; olympicchannel.com, 03 Mar 2019)

2003 (sports.china.com.cn, 27 Jul 2015)

He began playing table tennis at age five in Anshan, People's Republic of China. (finance.china.com.cn, 03 Jul 2015)

His father encouraged him to take up the sport to improve his health and fitness. (finance.china.com.cn, 03 Jul 2015)

To win gold at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (163.com, 31 Mar 2021)

Chinese table tennis players Ma Lin, Wang Liqin and Liu Guoliang, Argentinian footballer Lionel Messi, US basketball player Paul George, Swiss tennis player Roger Federer, Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal. (sports.163.com, 18 Jun 2015; olympics.com, 06 Apr 2021)

"The most important thing is to get fully prepared before each game. I am constantly working on my physical and mental condition with my coach." (news.cgtn.com, 05 Jul 2020)